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Uber defends sexual assault victims’ privacy, gets fined $59 million
Victim rights group RAINN said Calif. request risks "re-traumatization of victims."
Apple’s watchOS 7.2 is out, offers new health and fitness metrics
Apple's health-monitoring claims go far beyond those from typical fitness gear.
iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
Dramatic video shows employees smashing windows in response to pay disputes.
The Super-est SuperFX: An unmodified SNES, revved up with ray tracing [Updated]
FPGA board adds real-time RT effects, "sticks to the broad spirit of '90s technology."
Alan Tudyk plays a crime-solving alien in disguise in Resident Alien trailer
Syfy series is adapted from the Dark Horse comics by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse.
The Orion spacecraft is now 15 years old and has flown into space just once
It was supposed to be the beginning of the Mars era.
Senator tries to block Frontier’s FCC funding, citing ISP’s various failures
Senator: Frontier mismanaged previous funds and shouldn’t get new gigabit money.
Canada set to raise carbon price considerably over next decade
Plan extends price trajectory to CAN$170 per ton by 2030.
CDPR admits it “ignored the signals” of Cyberpunk 2077’s console issues
Refund requests are dependent on console/retailer policies, CDPR says.
Pinterest agrees to $22.5 million settlement in discrimination lawsuit
Settlement is one of the largest ever in this kind of case, Brougher's lawyer said.
The Google Home Max is dead—Google shuts down production
The Home Max was $400. It weighed 12 pounds. It was probably too expensive.
Modern Vintage Gamer talks dev details and hardware hackery
Maker, breaker, emulator co-developer, YouTuber—MVG's been around the block.
EU warns that it may break up Big Tech companies
Repeat offenses under new rules will trigger action to force divestments.
The Audi R8 V10 performance: They won’t make them like this much longer
A mild midlife facelift does nothing to dampen our enthusiasm for the R8.
SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi-factor authentication
Hackers who hit SolarWinds compromised a think tank three separate times.
Twenty years later, Dungeons & Dragons gets another movie adaptation
Co-director clinches a Freaks & Geeks full-circle conclusion.
FTC kicks off sweeping privacy probe of nine major social media firms
Consumer privacy has fallen into the FTC's purview, so it's digging deep.
SpaceX won “rural” FCC funding in surprising places, like major airports
Starlink and other ISPs took advantage of broken FCC system, researcher says.
EA set to pay $1.2 billion for Codemasters and its stable of racing games
$1.2 billion purchase is part of a trend of game industry consolidation.
~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers
Russia-backed hackers use supply chain attack to infect public and private organizations.
COVID-19 vaccine rollout starts in the US
White House cancels a plan to move its staff to the front of the line.
Get your first look at a OnePlus 9 prototype
Even the cheaper OnePlus 9 will have a 120Hz display this year.
Millions of videos purged from Pornhub amid crackdown on user content
Almost 2/3 of content “suspended” as Pornhub scrambles following NYT report.
Amid massive bugs, CDPR offers refunds for Cyberpunk 2077 on consoles
Studio promises patches in next two months will fix “most prominent problems.”
Virgin Galactic’s stock price drops following failed spaceflight attempt
“As we do with every test flight, we are evaluating all the data.”
The Ars Technica ultimate holiday gift guide 2020
We propose some last-minute tech gift ideas for the various people in your life.
Russian hackers hit US government using widespread supply chain attack
Russia’s Cozy Bear is trojanizing business software to infect organizations worldwide.
Stroll down memory lane with this 1996 instructional video on How to Internet
Everything You Need to Know About... Introduction to the Internet is on the Internet Archive.
We have a winner in the world’s first quantum chess tournament
It’s like playing in a multiverse “but the different boards are connected to each other.”
Phosphorus equivalent of graphene makes reconfigurable transistors
May be useful for security, as it’s hard to tell how the circuitry might execute.
VR meetings are weird, but they beat our current reality
VR app called Arthur lets you, distant colleagues collaborate within a 3D meeting space.
Zodiac Killer cipher is cracked after eluding sleuths for 51 years
Northern California serial murderer sent encoded messages that went uncracked until now.
Oracle joins Silicon Valley’s Texas exodus
Elon Musk revealed he had moved to Texas earlier this week.
Copyright law is bricking your game console. Time to fix that
Op-ed: An exemption to the DMCA could make DIY console repairs possible—and legal.
The Christchurch shooter and YouTube’s radicalization trap
Researchers say YouTube's policies and algorithms are still too opaque.
FDA has authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine [Updated]
FDA head had been told to submit his resignation if vaccine wasn’t approved Friday.
Apple is full-steam ahead on replacing Qualcomm modems with its own
SVP Johny Srouji told Apple employees that development kicked off this year.
Apple’s app store is an illegal monopoly, rival Cydia claims in suit
Apple argues the iPhone and its app store are part of the same product.
Where do I go now that CentOS Linux is gone? Check our list
CentOS was the most famous "RHEL rebuild" by far—but there are others.
Facebook says hackers backed by Vietnam’s government are linked to IT firm
Group is known for its robust, custom-made malware. IT firm says the link is a mistake.
Boston Dynamics sells to Hyundai Motor Group in $1.1 billion deal
Boston Dynamics gets access to Hyundai's serious manufacturing supply chain.
The Expanse S5 review: The show is bigger, bolder, and better than ever
The board is set, the pieces moving, and the show's fifth season is devastatingly good.
“Mass Effect Will Return:” Teaser trailer sets a new (old) direction for the sequel
Players are not going all the way out to Andromeda this time.
We’ve got our first real look at Loki as Disney drops lengthy teaser trailer
It was just one of a smorgasbord of offerings presented at Disney's Investor Day.
Wormable code-execution flaw in Cisco Jabber has a severity rating of 9.9 out of 10
The company failed to adequately fix the vulnerability before, so it’s trying again.
Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020)
Famously, Apple's Quadra 700 once helped track dinosaurs. Is it stuck in amber nowadays?
Rocket Report: SN8 meets its fate, SLS Green Run tests to resume next week
“We’re not going to have big issues that cause us to stand down.”
More Disney 2021 plans: Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Holmes, Y: The Last Man on FX
Wait... they got Mahershala Ali to revive Blade, too?
Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof inspired increased scrutiny of Pornhub.
Disney+ drops Andor teaser, announces gazillion other Star Wars projects
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy introduced them all at Disney's Investor Day.
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