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Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+.
Fairphone’s CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.
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Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.
Beth Mole
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Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.
Kyle Orland
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150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data
Researchers now have clear new targets and insights for developing a Shigella vaccine.
Beth Mole
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Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance
Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.
Dan Goodin
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Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.
Beth Mole
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Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.
Kyle Orland
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150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data
Researchers now have clear new targets and insights for developing a Shigella vaccine.
Beth Mole
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Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance
Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.
Dan Goodin
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Supreme Court urged to let states regulate sports bets on prediction markets
Circuit split raised the odds that SCOTUS will rule on Kalshi fight against states.
Jon Brodkin
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VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur’s licensing fees by 85 percent
Pro soccer team’s CTO points to “issues with the Broadcom takeover.”
Scharon Harding
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Just like a fruit fly, a new algorithm never forgets old scents
Insect-inspired “sparse coding” does fast learning, avoids catastrophic forgetting.
Federica Sgorbissa
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Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.
Kyle Orland
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Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn
Americans fear there are no cheap alternatives as tariffs suddenly hit drones.
Ashley Belanger
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Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for 13ドル billion
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
Financial Times
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To laugh, then to think
Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and “24/7″ lectures.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants
Congress pauses the OMB’s attempt to rewrite how research is funded.
John Timmer
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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver’s license was for sale
The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.
Dan Goodin
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FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking
Carrier scorecards may include call-blocking stats and data on customer complaints.
Jon Brodkin
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Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design
“Requirements are being adjusted to reflect near-term mission needs.”
Eric Berger
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Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks
Google’s Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there’s yet another Gemini Flash today.
Ryan Whitwam
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Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing
Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.
Ashley Belanger
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US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case
The DOJ proved to the court that Google acted illegally, but it won’t get the big win it wanted.
Ryan Whitwam
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Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84
He reported from space that only “fat” Japanese tree frogs enjoyed weightlessness.
Robert Pearlman
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The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones
The Army says its laser system can track and destroy hostile drones.
WIRED
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Is Russia’s rival to Starlink failing? Here’s what we know.
At least three of the first 32 Rassvet satellites likely suffered outright failures, and more may be in trouble.
Stephen Clark
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BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all
What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.
Dan Goodin
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Here’s our first look—and drive—of the 2027 Range Rover Electric
333 miles of real-world range with uncompromised comfort and off-road ability.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
“Black hole stars,” making cookies from plastic, tiny sound-powered drones, and more.
Jennifer Ouellette
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A newborn and child reportedly died of measles; CDC isn’t counting them
Historically, state health departments determine cases and deaths, not the CDC.
Beth Mole
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New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official
New features are rolling out across the Android ecosystem starting today.
Ryan Whitwam
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FTC alleges Amazon illegally made 20ドル billion by rigging billions of ad auctions
FTC says firm replaces actual ad-auction results “with higher prices set by Amazon.”
Jon Brodkin
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This is what a supercar was like a century ago
When the average car could only do 40 mph, this Bentley could break 100.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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It turns out that Orion’s much-maligned heat shield performed really well
Independent safety officials also have high praise for changes by NASA leadership.
Eric Berger
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Bigger and better
Without new landers or rovers, it’s helicopters or bust for NASA’s Mars program
NASA’s cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is 2ドル.1 billion, but that doesn’t include the helicopters.
Stephen Clark
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Private group wants to launch “cheapest possible” mission to Alpha Centauri
“We could really be facing the great filter.”
Eric Berger
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The Bentley Supersports: A stripped-out engineer’s indulgence
It’s the lightest Bentley in 85 years.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Trump admin shelves Cyclospora research despite record-breaking outbreak
The CDC has tallied nearly 30,000 confirmed and probable cases this summer.
Beth Mole
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Get in on the Ars community that doesn’t fit beneath an article
You’ve read the stories. Now check out our forums.
Eric Bangeman
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Review: Coyote vs. Acme is an unabashed love letter to Looney Tunes
Director Dave Green’s live action/animated hybrid captures smart, subversive weirdness of the classic cartoons.
Jennifer Ouellette
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