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Amazon Ring now lets users opt out of receiving police video requests
The company has caught a lot of flak for its privacy practices in the past year.
Serious flaw that lurked in sudo for 9 years hands over root privileges
Flaw affecting selected sudo versions is easy for unprivileged users to exploit.
The Poco X2 smartphone packs a 120Hz display, six cameras for $225
Xiaomi's India-focused phone offers a big spec sheet and a really low price.
Tesla stock gains 20 percent for second day in a row
Tesla's latest share price values the company at more than $170 billion.
AT&T is doing exactly what it told Congress it wouldn’t do with Time Warner
AT&T lost $1.2B in Q4 by preventing Time Warner shows from airing on Netflix.
Symptomless spread of new coronavirus questioned as outbreak mushrooms
The main source of infections is most likely people coughing and sneezing.
Dealmaster: Get a wireless pair of Anker noise-cancelling headphones for $40
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Microsoft’s failures to renew: Teams, Hotmail, and Hotmail.co.uk
SSL certificates aren't optional anymore—no cert, no authentication, no service.
Robust, scalable not words that apply to Iowa Dem Caucus app
Untested platform from campaign tech startup buckles under strain of caucus tallies.
RIP Stadia? Nvidia’s newly launched cloud-gaming service is (mostly) a stunner
GeForce Now works with hundreds of games you may already own, includes free tier.
Alphabet finally reveals YouTube revenue—$15 billion in 2019
Google parent offers increased transparency to improve dealings with shareholders.
Nightmare Google Photos bug sent private videos to the wrong people
Google's data export service exported the wrong data.
Check out the first-ever electric car designed by Porsche, the 1898 P1
Before Ferdinand Porsche invented the world's first hybrid, he built a BEV.
Technology glitches prevent same-night release of Iowa caucus results
"This is not a hack or an intrusion," a party official says.
New ransomware doesn’t just encrypt data. It also meddles with critical infrastructure
Ekans represents a "new and deeply concerning" evolution in malware targeting control systems.
How do we test for coronavirus, anyway?
A rundown of the biology behind testing for a virus we hadn't seen before.
West Virginia is expanding its controversial smartphone voting push
Backers have ignored experts who say online voting is a security nightmare.
FBI catches hacker that stole Nintendo’s secrets for years
Child pornography also found on 21-year-old's hard drive.
How to virtually block a road: Take a walk with 99 phones
You don't need mad coding skills to make Google Maps show you bad data.
Meet Sno*Drift, the USA’s premier winter rally
It's a slice of Scandinavia in the Midwest.
Goop accused of more deceptive health claims, violating court order
“It is outrageous that Goop continues to exploit health issues in order to make money.”
Record labels want to ask potential jurors: Do you read Ars Technica?
Labels suing ISP want to know if jurors read Ars, use BitTorrent, or support EFF.
The end of BlackBerry phones: TCL will cease sales in August 2020
TCL's brand-name license will expire, leading to a clean, swift death.
Review: It’s a wonderful afterlife in The Good Place’s bittersweet finale
A spoiler-y homage to what just might be the best sitcom ever.
Archaeologists put stone tools through modern engineering tests
Homo habilis knew how to choose the right rock for the job, a new study suggests.
Telecom pioneer and convicted fraudster Bernard Ebbers has died
Worldcom inflated its earnings to mask the impact of the 2001 dot-com crash.
Panasonic and Toyota team up to build prismatic batteries for EVs
The new company is called Prime Planet Energy and Solutions.
OneWeb joins the satellite Internet gold rush this week
“Our style is not confrontational. We're using a different model.”
Tracking the future of remote workplaces: Apps, communication, and liability
Ars' work-from-home series continues with macro-level guesses about the inevitable.
Virus tricked into glowing reveals entryway to cellular victim
Viral path to cell nucleus tracked by injecting it with tiny glowing dot.
Flat surfaces surf past each other on the peak of a wave
Simple model describes the transition from static to dynamic friction.
Success kid’s mom won’t stand for Steve King’s “meme” ad
Laney Griner, mother behind the meme, sent cease-and-desist to the Iowa congressman.
Email release reveals chaos sowed by President Trump’s hurricane tweets
"What's next? Climate science is a hoax?"
White dwarf causes strange relativity effect called frame dragging
We've struggled to measure it near Earth but now have data from distant stars.
We are entering the Golden Age of studying our Sun
"There is no doubt that the observations and insight will be unprecedented."
Dear Ashley Madison user, I know everything about you. Pay up or else
Emails threaten to publish intimate details unless members pay a hefty ransom.
The fractured future of browser privacy
Browser makers increase privacy protection but disagree on how exactly it should work.
Fast & Furious 9 trailer: The only 4 minutes of the film you’ll need to watch
Film brings back fan-favorite character Han Lue (Sung Kang), who is not dead after all.
Ajit Pai: Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment
Pai tells lawmakers that "one or more wireless carriers" violated US law.
Huawei outsells Apple in 2019, becomes No. 2 global smartphone vendor
The US export ban places a serious cloud over Huawei's future, though.
Coronavirus outbreak sparks first federal quarantine in over 50 years
The 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan are now under 14-day quarantine amid outbreak.
Linux Star Trek fans, rejoice: CBS All Access now works in your OS [Updated]
There's probably a lot of overlap in the Star Trek↔Linux Venn diagram.
Ajit Pai’s “surprise” change makes it harder to get FCC broadband funding
Nearly 30 states may have “eligibility reduced or eliminated,” Democrat says.
FCC proposes to fine racist troll $13 million for robocalling spree
One call featured "caricature of a black dialect with jungle background noises."
Levitating sand escapes classical world, enters quantum ground state
We're close to being uncertain about where hundreds of millions of atoms are.
Nintendo: No new Switch model planned for 2020
Power gap between the portable hybrid and new next-gen consoles looks set to widen.
The 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLB gets good infotainment, but don’t get the AI
The GLB takes a niche slot and throws shade at the smaller GLA.
WarCraft III Reforged: Not the flavor of chaos we were hoping for
We tried—seriously—to keep our cool while cataloging this $30 re-release's woes.
Rocket Report: Starlink flies, OneWeb has next mega-constellation launch
“This marks the start of a regular launch campaign during 2020.”
Amazon reports big earnings, crosses $1 trillion in value
Investors went gaga over the report, raising Amazon's stock market value by 11%.
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