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CLD confusion
No one is happy with NASA’s new idea for private space stations
“It reminds me of sort of Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football.”
Eric Berger
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Ars Technica homepage
Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC
Why did a leading prediction market feel the need for an in-person bar in DC?
Rob Pegoraro
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Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?
Research proceeds on alternatives, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.
Undark Magazine
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Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails
Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen.
Jacek Krywko
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Causality optional? Testing the “indefinite causal order” superposition
A quantum experiment shows that we can formally test if the order of events matters.
John Timmer
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Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC
Why did a leading prediction market feel the need for an in-person bar in DC?
Rob Pegoraro
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Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?
Research proceeds on alternatives, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.
Undark Magazine
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Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails
Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen.
Jacek Krywko
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Causality optional? Testing the “indefinite causal order” superposition
A quantum experiment shows that we can formally test if the order of events matters.
John Timmer
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How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures
Specially equipped nets can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others.
Knowable Magazine
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Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026
Over three decades later, this historical curiosity has more than a few rough edges
Kyle Orland
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With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding
Things are moving fast, and competitors have offered something similar for a while.
Samuel Axon
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Outbreak linked to raw cheese grows; 9 cases total, one with kidney failure
Raw Farm denies link to illnesses while patients keep identifying its products.
Beth Mole
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Judge irate as defendant joins by Zoom while driving—then lies about it
“Let me see the driver!”
Nate Anderson
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AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
Big Tech declaring AV1 royalty-free “doesn’t mean that it is.”
Scharon Harding
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remember when PC building was fun?
Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs
Great performance for the price, if you ignore the price of RAM, SSDs, and GPUs.
Andrew Cunningham
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Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says
“I don’t know”: Department of War fails to justify blacklisting Anthropic.
Ashley Belanger
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DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email was hacked
Hackers claimed the attack was retaliation after Patel vowed to “hunt” them.
Ashley Belanger
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Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150
Memory, storage shortages have made all kinds of consumer tech more expensive.
Andrew Cunningham
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Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop
M2 Ultra Mac Pro is no longer for sale, and Apple says no replacement is planned.
Andrew Cunningham
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Rivian and VW Group complete winter testing of new zonal architecture
The RV Tech joint venture passed a key milestone, opens up $1 billion for Rivian.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage
In a letter, senators press for mandated annual electricity disclosure for data centers.
WIRED
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AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
Both of the chip’s CPU dies will include 64MB of extra cache stacked beneath.
Andrew Cunningham
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Rocket Report: Russia reopens gateway to ISS; Cape Canaveral hosts missile test
The US Space Force might move additional payloads off of ULA’s grounded Vulcan rocket.
Stephen Clark
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Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal
X admonished for “fishing expedition” as judge dismisses ad boycott lawsuit.
Ashley Belanger
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Spotify seeks $300M from Anna’s Archive, which ignores all court proceedings
Even with court orders, music firms struggle to eliminate notorious shadow library.
Jon Brodkin
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Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of “anonymous” crime tips
Ultra-sensitive data may have been hacked.
Nate Anderson
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As RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine ways turn toxic to GOP, CDC director is hard to find
Wednesday was the deadline to nominate a new director.
Beth Mole
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Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
Netflix last raised prices in January 2025.
Scharon Harding
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You’ve got $20,000 to spend on an EV: Here are some options
From Audis to Teslas, there’s a lot available in this price range.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment
Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to resolve conflicts.
Jennifer Ouellette
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The debut of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live could make it harder to know if you’re talking to a robot
Google’s new conversational audio AI is rolling out in search, Gemini, and developer tools today.
Ryan Whitwam
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OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT
Some staff reportedly questioned how sexy ChatGPT benefits humanity.
Ashley Belanger
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Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer
This will not be turning up in the church rummage sale.
Kiona N. Smith
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The Corvette E-Ray is dead, long live the Grand Sport X
The mid-engined Corvette gets a new variant.
Tim Stevens
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2026’s historic snow drought is bad news for the West
For much of the Western US, winter 2026 was the year snow never came.
The Conversation
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BRINC’s new police drone uses Starlink, carries Narcan, chases vehicles at 60mph
Company calls Guardian the “most capable 911 response drone ever.”
Cyrus Farivar
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Here is NASA’s plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars
Only one US-built nuclear reactor has ever flown in space, and that was more than 60 years ago.
Stephen Clark
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Reddit will require “fishy” accounts to verify they are run by a human
AI-generated content is still acceptable for now.
Scharon Harding
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We got an audience with the “Lunar Viceroy” to talk how NASA will build a Moon base
“It has been clear that we all need to be focused on one thing, not 10 things.”
Eric Berger
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