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Our big unanswered questions about the switch to Tesla-style EV plugs
Will non-Teslas fit at Superchargers, and what about 3rd party networks?
Musk sues law firm because he’s mad that Twitter paid $90 million bill
Musk tries to claw back $90M from firm that forced him to complete Twitter deal.
This is the world’s smallest 3D-printed wineglass, Swedish scientists claim
Scientists also made a tiny optical resonator for telecommunications out of silica glass
Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil”
COO says coming benchmarks will show anti-piracy tech has no performance impact.
Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.
MOVEit app mass-exploited last month patches new critical vulnerability
Just in time for the weekend: another unauthenticated SQL injection flaw!
Pixel Fold teardown reveals the guts of Google’s $1,800 phone
See the insides of the thinnest US foldable with the biggest battery.
Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011
Reddit urges US court to protect anonymity of six users who mentioned piracy.
ChatGPT users drop for the first time as people turn to uncensored chatbots
Data shows ChatGPT use decreased by nearly 10 percent from May to June.
Perovskite + silicon solar panels hit efficiencies of over 30%
The two-layer panels still suffer from rapid decay of performance, though.
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Gears Technica: The keyboards and mice our editors swear by
Check out the peripherals the Ars staff relies on to game and stay productive.
US Space Command says it needs more maneuverable satellites
The military is starting to buy into orbital refueling.
Amazon has 5,000+ Rivian EV delivery vans on the road
Amazon will also send Rivian vans to Germany.
US’s largest grid operator must process and connect backlogged clean energy projects
PJM could benefit numerous states with thousands of jobs and billions in investment.
Rocket Report: Big dreams in Sin City; SpaceX and FAA seek to halt lawsuit
"It's not a function of size, rather how much it accelerates our road map."
The physics of how gentoo penguins can swim speedily underwater
A variable called the "angle of thrust" explains why finned wings generate so much thrust.
Smelling in stereo—a surprising find on a fossilized shark
Fossils and modern experiments are telling us what a shark's nose knows.
Musk’s X Corp. threatens to sue Meta over Twitter “copycat” Threads
X Corp. claims Meta used Twitter trade secrets and ex-employees to build Threads.
Octopuses sleep—and possibly dream—just like humans
The cephalopods experience an apparent sleep state with REM-like activity.
Threads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns
FTC requires Meta to make it easy for users to control data.
Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking
Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances.
CDC is slashing funding for states’ childhood vaccination data systems
The budget cut targets data systems that can identify areas with low vaccination.
Android phone hits 24GB of RAM, as much as a 13-inch MacBook Pro
The Nubia RedMagic 8S Pro+ gaming phone sports a huge spec sheet.
State Dept. cancels election meetings with Facebook after “free speech” ruling
US aims to block injunction after judge ruled White House coerced social networks.
Review: Forcite’s MK1S smart helmet stays on your head, not in your face
After many failed concepts, we find a smart helmet that actually works well.
Volkswagen will start testing its driverless ID. Buzz in Austin, Texas
The program will start with 10 ID. Buzzes with autonomous tech from Mobileye.
June extremes suggest parts of climate system are reaching tipping points
Research shows heat domes, wildfires, and vanishing polar ice are the symptoms.
India, a growing space power, is forging closer ties with NASA
Details of a potential US-Indian partnership in human spaceflight remain murky.
US maternal deaths more than doubled over two decades, study estimates
Black people have the highest overall rates of deaths in the US.
Check out the official renders of Samsung’s next foldables
The Fold 5 and Flip 5 will do battle against an increasing number of foldables.
Archaeologists may have found ruins of fabled entrance to Zapotec underworld
Spanish missionaries deemed Lyobaa to be a "back door to hell" and sealed all entrances.
Actively exploited vulnerability threatens hundreds of solar power stations
Organizations using unpatched SolarView products face potentially serious consequences.
This EV truckmaker is gigacasting its battery packs for longevity
The powertrain has been designed and built in-house for a 450,000-mile life.
Massive peak collapses may reshape Himalayas
23 cubic kilometers of mountain plunged into the valley below.
Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech”
Missouri and Louisiana sued Biden over attempts to limit COVID misinformation.
Dealmaster: Amazon’s early Prime Day 2023 deals continue, Star Wars savings, and more
Get deals on laptops and discounts on gear for your home.
Generative AI in games will create a copyright crisis
Titles like AI Dungeon are already using generative AI to generate in-game content.
Twitter refuses to pay for arbitration it forced on 891 ex-employees, suit says
Meanwhile, at least one Twitter ex-employee has won a rare settlement.
Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony
"Another example of why we will eventually win," writes blissfully unaware CEO.
Going deep with the Book 8088, the brand-new laptop that runs like it’s 1981
Stolen BIOS, stolen software, and half-busted hardware. But still... kind of neat?
Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket to make its final launch this evening [Updated]
After nearly three decades, the Ariane 5 rocket reaches the end of the line.
Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US
Fairphone teams up with the developer of the /e/ Android fork to enable US sales.
One shot of a kidney protein gave monkeys a brain boost
An early experiment suggests that an injection of klotho improves working memory.
Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed
The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.
The 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre proves EVs make the best luxury cars
We drive Rolls-Royce's first electric car, which was 123 years in the making.
336,000 servers remain unpatched against critical Fortigate vulnerability
69 percent of devices have yet to receive patch for flaw allowing remote code execution.
AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war
"Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably."
The link rot spreads: GIF-hosting site Gfycat shutting down Sept. 1
Snap-owned service has little to say, other than save or delete your stuff.
Pornhub cuts off more US users in ongoing protest over age-verification laws
Pornhub apologized to "loyal visitors" blocked in two states this weekend.
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