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Google vows to create more safeguards to protect victims of deepfake porn.

Also: A separate team found a small, cold exoplanet with a massive outer companion.

Starlink's Direct to Cell satellites to fill in dead spots in T-Mobile network.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act set aside $2.5 billion for underserved and rural areas.

Google's layoffs hit hardware, the Google Assistant, and even the AR division.

Fake CEO denied profiting off the alleged cryptocurrency scam.

Judge calls law "breathtakingly blunt instrument" for reducing harm to children.

Next up: Could SteamOS 3 be coming to a desktop gaming rig near you?

Media orgs want AI firms to license content for training, and Congress is sympathetic.

The rental car company will replace them with gasoline-powered vehicles.

The unfinished script, found in an archive, shows Lynch's enthusiasm for Dune.

Even as astronomical objects go, that's a gargantuan protostar.

As US dams age, removal is always an option-and it can be done well.

Only Broadcom's favorites will be able to sell VMware-related offerings.

Top regulatory officials call for clinicians to speak up and drown out misinformation.

More than 600,000 Ram trucks have Cummins engines with software defeat devices.

Organizations using Ivanti Connect Secure should take action at once.

The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid combines the best (?) of both worlds.

Like an app store, people can find novel ChatGPT personalities-and some creators will get paid.

Opinion: I'd rather have my secondary, portable screen fold than my phone or PC.

Twitch reportedly still unprofitable, paid over $1 billion to streamers in 2023.

"We anticipate some movements in the manifest."

Massive stars burn out quickly. When they die, they expel their gas as outflowing winds.

X says hacker had control over phone number associated with SEC account.

New reporting system will enforce "guardrails" for "live-generated" AI content.

The midlife upgrade was available in China and Europe last year.

Based on Mirai malware, self-replicating NoaBot installs cryptomining app on infected devices.

The diminutive and blocky VF3 costs just $12,200 in Vietnam.

Microplastics in our steak and tofu are washed down with nanoplastics from bottled water.

Early on, they're likely to trust humans; a bit later, performance matters more.

Hubble's still got it.

Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples' faces doesn't work to change minds.

Ars' total charity haul since 2007 now tops $506,000.

Meta hiding harmful content from teens isn't enough, whistleblower says.

Canada adds that importing its drugs will not solve America's drug pricing problems.

Company builds on recent demonstration of error-tracking in similar hardware.

"They are coming. And there's nothing you can do to stop them."

"Copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression" and cannot be avoided.

"We must be realistic."

Suit seeks injunction blocking HP from bricking printers using third-party ink.

Samsung jumps into the home robotics market with a bowling ball-sized robot.

EU is fielding comments on potential market harms of Microsoft's investments.

A production car based on the Saloon should go on sale in the US in two years.

FCC must start winding down low-income program as Congress fails to add money.

In the second half of the year, every month set a record.

Branded monitors can sync pixels to backlighting, refresh rate, and GPU frames.

Lead chromate, an artificial coloring, has been used in other spices to conceal poor quality.

1,800 newly announced job cuts come on top of 1,300 layoffs since mid-2022.

In our own Solar System, Earth has far lower CO concentrations than its neighbors.