Ars Technica

  1. Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation

    "We couldn't provide detailed pricing to the CLD suppliers."

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  2. Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump

    China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.

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  3. SpaceX's Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks

    Starship had already flown 99 percent of the way to low-Earth orbit. Monday's flight added the last bit.

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  4. Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development

    State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."

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  5. New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery

    The design requires less energy to capture CO2 than current systems.

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  6. To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents

    Add-on patents have increased drug patent periods from two years to over six.

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  7. Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels

    In 2020, Trump cut CAFE to 40 mpg. Now he’s cut it again to just 35 mpg.

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  8. Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws

    Kalshi's defiance of state gambling laws may be headed to Supreme Court.

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  9. Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034

    Google support maps out how Googlebooks can take over where ChromeOS left off.

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  10. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery

    19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—due to a typo.

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  11. F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing

    Kimi Antonelli could not repeat his Monza magic after a crash in qualifying.

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  12. OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

    US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.

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  13. NASA 'troubleshooting' transporter for space station's robotic arm [Updated]

    NASA isn't saying much. The problem may be temporary.

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  14. Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

    “Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."

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  15. How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war

    The Smithsonian has faced withering pressure from the Trump administration.

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  16. Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge

    The 500-mile Semi arrives as charging gaps still limit electric trucking.

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  17. Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.

    Heidi Overton faced questions focused on vaccines, birth control, and vapes.

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  18. Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

    "Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.

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  19. Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

    Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.

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  20. Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?

    Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.

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