Ars Technica

  1. Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website

    Reddit REALLY wants you to use its app.

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  2. "Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original

    "To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version."

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  3. Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work

    Intentional errors can be useful.

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  4. Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags

    The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

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  5. GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it

    Amid falling revenue and store closures, GameStop wants to buy the much larger eBay.

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  6. F1 in Miami: That's what it looks like when an upgrade works

    2026's Formula 1 championship now looks far from a foregone thing.

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  7. AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.

    Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon.

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  8. Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial

    OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started.

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  9. Mac mini starting price goes up to $799, may be hard to get for "months"

    Chip shortages and demand from AI enthusiasts are both playing a part.

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  10. Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms

    Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.

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  11. MIT's virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool

    Computational model lets users tweak parameters to hear effect on the sound in early design process.

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  12. Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?

    Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more.

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  13. Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

    Crushing soda cans for science, why dolphins swim so fast, how urine helps mushrooms communicate, and more.

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  14. Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?

    Acoustic fire suppression goes commercial.

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  15. Study: AI models that consider users' feelings are more likely to make errors

    Overtuning can cause models to "prioritize user satisfaction over truthfulness.”

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  16. The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS

    Op-ed: Valve has made a dent in Windows' gaming share, but can it keep going?

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  17. Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive

    Doctors suspect three factors, each unremarkable on its own, contributed to his fate.

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  18. Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day

    The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root.

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  19. Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races

    Senator decries "blatant, brazen corruption," wants to target Trump admin next.

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  20. Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines

    More evidence of Grok CSAM seen as Minnesota passes nudifying app ban.

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