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Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states' lawsuit moves toward trial
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Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
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Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
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Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent
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RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
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Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters
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European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region
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Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
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This is the world's most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about
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Rocket Report: Lightning strikes in China; Starship launch on deck
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AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say
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Robot snakes searched for Venezuela earthquake survivors in collapsed buildings
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Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows
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FDA reports new outbreak of explosive diarrhea with 72 cases identified
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Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie.
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AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems
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Final Coyote vs. Acme trailer drops at SDCC
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A woman got a UTI. Two years later, the bacteria had evolved, invaded her brain.
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Google hit with $1 billion in fines as EU braces for Trump battle
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Sony's decision to ditch discs was practically inevitable, data shows
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Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending
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AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
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White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science
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I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.
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Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode
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Sales were up at Tesla but so were costs and spending
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Microsoft brings original Xbox backward compatibility to Windows PCs
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ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over
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Clayface trailer leans into the body horror
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Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers
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Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers
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OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
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What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?
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Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy Watches, available August 7
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Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
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Ukrainian drones deliver robots directly into battle by sea and air
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Range Rover answers the question: "What if we built a not-SUV?"
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On the run for 20 years, most-wanted fugitive caught hiding as a biotech exec
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Sony releases one last trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day
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Confusion swirls on source of diarrhea outbreak, but it’s still Taylor Farms
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Nintendo customers have no legal right to tariff refunds, company tells judge
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Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii's final day
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Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals
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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
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Steam Deck sales are losing steam since May's price hike
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Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
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TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe
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When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?
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Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code
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2027 Kia Seltos first drive gives you plenty of SUV for not much $
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DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him
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Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
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Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states
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The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches
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The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches
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AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California
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RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony's disc-free PlayStation plan
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F1 in Belgium: Machine learning algorithms are ruining the sport
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AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes
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The first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday is finally here
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Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices.
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Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
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India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
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As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease
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Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
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Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
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The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like
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Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield
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Taco Bell iceberg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states
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Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
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Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
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Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
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San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
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Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
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The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
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FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
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2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
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Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?
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SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start
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Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing
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HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
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T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines
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It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
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xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
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Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
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Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say
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2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric
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Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
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Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
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We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere
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OnePlus ends phone releases in US and Europe, further reducing smartphone choice
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Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.
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Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom
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Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds
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Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback
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Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there
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Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon
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Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
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Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
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Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park
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Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
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FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs
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In memoriam: 7 of our favorite Sam Neill films
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Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn
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OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?
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A most improbable astronaut just went to space
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How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
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Sotheby's big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending science
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Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
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Trump admin puts Americans in Congo on "do-not-board" list, barring return
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Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
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US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time
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These painted e-tattoos could be the future of wearable biosensors
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Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI
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New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry
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Probe into explosive diarrheal cases points to Taco Bell and bad lettuce
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Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol
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SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week
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US continues to shun Ebola-infected citizens; second American sent to Germany
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The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
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Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor
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California creates $3,500 rebate for new electric vehicle buyers
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Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets
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Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"
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States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin
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Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer
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Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows
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Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution
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Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"
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A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.
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Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
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Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models
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The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
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A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
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Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement
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Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor
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Increased drone surveillance of illegal July 4th fireworks led to $100K fine
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China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it
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Check out the first images of Quest shipwreck
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Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers
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Study shows how toxic RFK Jr.’s change to measles vaccine is for US toddlers
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Valve's new Steam Machine verification system is silent on these Steam Deck-busters
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Firmware update bricks Hue Bridge Pro devices; Philips gives free replacements
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An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet
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Disable auto-play and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta
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NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations
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VW Group and unions disagree on plan to streamline the automaker
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Wally Funk, last of Mercury 13 and oldest woman in space, dies at 87
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Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe?
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Rocket Report: "Panic" over Transporter availability; Isar to launch from Canada
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Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning
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Flores Hobbits' eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past
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Michigan's explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite jumps to over 1,200 cases
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OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you
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Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
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Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA
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Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs
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Judge doesn't like Elon Musk settlement with SEC, but says court can't block it
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OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
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Surprised doctors find 10-inch worm in man's groin during elective surgery
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Conspiracies and regrets abound in Dune: Part Three trailer
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Ruf debuts new flat-eight engine at Goodwood
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Free Waymo rides in California? You can thank a regulatory quirk.
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The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn't actually a launch company
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Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That's finally changing.
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Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%
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Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself
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Judge rejects Kalshi attempt to override New York state gambling laws
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Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
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Aussie gov't tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers
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TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think
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US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers
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Miami-based City Labs achieves a first for commercial nuclear power in space
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Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind
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Two teens learn the hard way not to do toy gun drive-bys from a Waymo
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Ocean rift zone saw spreading happen in a sudden burst
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US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge
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Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital
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Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
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Michigan sees explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite with over 700 cases
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Data centers’ energy demand threatens Trump’s “Made in America” plan
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Surprisingly large number of people may have marker for tick-linked meat allergy
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SCOTUS lets Texas enforce app store law that Big Tech calls "censorship regime"
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Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs
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Google's Pixel 11 launch event is set for August 12, with possible price increases
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The Weather Channel increases streaming subscription prices by up to $20
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The Nintendo Switch's days are numbered—but what is that number?
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This race car is made from plant fibers, volcanoes, ... and seawater?
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Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips
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Dragonflies maneuver like fighter pilots
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New virus catalog reveals which pathogens pose the greatest threat
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ULA's last six Atlas Vs can't launch anything besides Boeing's Starliner
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How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces—and maybe homes
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How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces—and maybe homes
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FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees
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Kremlin suspected of flying drones over Europe using Russian shadow fleet
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What's the oldest Americana flown in space?
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NRC is (sort of) getting rid of "as low as reasonably achievable" standard
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Katalyst's satellite rescue mission is now in pursuit of NASA's Swift
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