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Amazon’s anti-union conduct made free election “impossible,” NLRB officer finds
Report cites mailbox under cameras and anti-union materials at mandatory meetings.
Apple begins selling Touch ID-equipped Magic Keyboard, new Mac Pro GPUs
The Mac Pro gets Radeon Pro W6800X and W6900X MPX modules.
Google will kill off very old versions of Android next month
Google's tighter login security means Android 2.3.7 and lower will lose functionality.
DOJ repatriates looted “Dream of Gilgamesh” tablet, other artifacts to Iraq
Hobby Lobby founder Steve Green purchased the tablet from Christie's in 2014.
If YouTube’s algorithms radicalize people, it’s hard to tell from the data
Tracking user behavior shows that most people don't go down radical rabbit holes.
After a COVID-free year, delta arrives in Wuhan, China
Delta is thought to have arrived in the country on a flight from Russia.
NASA science chief says it’s OK to be “worried” or “terrified” about Webb
"This mission has a very troubled story with chapters that were disappointing."
Awful transaction and timing: AT&T finally ditches DirecTV
AT&T owns 70% of DirecTV spinoff but won't be managing it anymore.
Blizzard president ends 16-year tenure amid lawsuit fallout
Two recent Blizzard execs will serve as co-leads for the studio.
Trusted platform module security defeated in 30 minutes, no soldering required
Sometimes, locking down a laptop with the latest defenses isn't enough.
After nearly 20 months, Boeing and Starliner have a shot at redemption
Starliner to attempt second flight test beginning Tuesday afternoon.
Cadillac saves its best for last: The 2022 CT4-V Blackwing
Cadillac's Blackwings are its swan song to the gasoline performance-car era.
New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows
Adventurous users can try the new implementation now by adding a registry key.
Delta engulfs unvaccinated in Florida, Louisiana; CDC clarifies breakthroughs
Vaccines and masks are both needed to lower transmission, US officials stress.
The Lord of the Rings TV series has finished filming, and it has a release date
Plus, Amazon shared one of the first visuals from the series.
Post Mortem is the Norwegian vampire procedural dramedy we need right now
No one dies in the town of Skarnes. Could a hungry vampire save the local funeral home?
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
Zoom users to get $15 or $25 each in proposed settlement of class-action lawsuit.
SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night
Progress on the regulatory side of things remains murky, though.
Here are the first official Pixel 6 pictures and info
Google's "Whitechapel" SoC is officially "Google Tensor," plus we've got pictures!
YouTube’s “Premium Lite” trial offers ad-free YouTube for €7 a month
YouTube unbundles music features from the Premium plan in Europe.
In selecting space leader, White House opts for policy chops over politics
Vice President Kamala Harris to host first National Space Council meeting this fall.
Nauka module’s near miss raises concerns about future of space station
"Everything was going well, but there was a human factor."
Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work
CEOs want workers back at their desks. Employees and the virus have other plans.
What is LMDh and why are we so excited about sports car racing in 2023?
Acura, Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Peugeot, and Toyota can all race together in 2023—here's how.
Review: The Green Knight weaves a compelling coming-of-age fantasy quest
David Lowery's atmospheric film is as richly textured and layered as the original poem.
With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware
With a valid TLS certificate, faux Bravė.com could fool even security-savvy people.
The privacy battle Apple isn’t fighting
Browser-level privacy setting mandated by California is absent from Safari, iOS.
H.G. Wells’ “World Brain” is now here—what have we learned since?
H.G. Wells presented a vision of society that events quickly eclipsed.
Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions, new study confirms
In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are already 60-68% lower than gasoline.
3G-only Kindles begin their long, slow death this year
The 2021/2022 3G sunset will affect even 8th-gen (2016) Kindle devices.
Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX
Bezos' Blue Origin protested SpaceX deal, but GAO said NASA didn't break any laws.
Evolutionary chaos as butterflies, wasps, and viruses have a three-way war
The evolutionary pressures result in some pretty complicated host interactions.
Scarlett Johansson sues Disney, says Disney+ release of Black Widow broke contract
Lawsuit: Marvel star was promised exclusive theatrical release and cut of ticket sales.
Huawei’s latest flagship phone has HarmonyOS, a Qualcomm SoC, and no 5G
Facing export ban and chip shortage, Huawei is scraping together what it can find.
Valve issues scathing reply over the facts behind a Steam antitrust case
Valve says it has "no obligation" to let devs "undercut" Steam using free keys.
This 900-person delta cluster in Mass. has CDC freaked out—74% are vaccinated [Updated]
CDC estimates 35K symptomatic infections in US per week among 162 million vaccinated.
America’s favorite truck goes hybrid: The Ford F-150, reviewed
Hybridization offers decent fuel economy improvement and a lot more power.
Software downloaded 30,000 times from PyPI ransacked developers’ machines
Expect to see more of these "Frankenstein" malware packages, researchers warn.
New bank-fraud malware called Vultur infects thousands of devices
Screen sharing courtesy of VNC mirrors device screens to attacker-controlled servers.
Rocket Report: Ariane V returns after long layoff, Rocket Lab’s tough culture
"Pete told us that key contributors would be driving Ferraris to work in a year."
Russian module suddenly fires thrusters after docking with space station
"Until you exhaust all your contingency plans, you're not really starting to worry."
This 3D-printed soft robotic hand beat the first level of Super Mario Bros.
The hand has integrated fluidic transistors, so it only requires one pressure input.
Facebook’s next hardware product will be “smart” Ray-Ban glasses
Don't get too excited—the new glasses won't have integrated display capabilities.
Second lab worker with deadly prion disease prompts research pause in France
A lab worker died of prion disease in 2019, nine years after a lab accident.
Forget “App Tracking Transparency”: Facebook is enjoying more ad revenue than ever
Facebook's CFO predicts the worst is yet to come, though.
Putting the PS5’s 10 million sales in context
In consoles' "race to 10 million," PS5's 248 days is second only to the Wii.
Over half the deer in Michigan seem to have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2
A survey of wild deer finds a lot of antibodies that target the virus.
How one game’s delisting pokes a hole in the Xbox Game Pass promise
This time around, the usual "licenses expired" song-and-dance is weirder.
On Earth, things evolve into crabs—could the same be true in space?
Evolution experts were kind enough to answer Ars' questions about alien crabs.
PS5 gets high-speed M.2 SSD storage support in new beta system software
Compatible drives need to meet stringent physical and technical guidelines.
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