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Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to
Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Something from ‘space’ may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah
“NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data.”
Eric Berger
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Roberta Williams’ The Colonel’s Bequest was a different type of adventure game
What if point-and-click games weren’t about the puzzles?
Samuel Axon
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With deadline looming, 4 of 9 universities reject Trump’s “compact” to remake higher ed
But Trump is pressuring the other five.
Nate Anderson
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Vaginal condition treatment update: Men should get treated, too
For bacterial vaginosis, partners are part of the problem—and the solution.
Beth Mole
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Something from ‘space’ may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah
“NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data.”
Eric Berger
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Roberta Williams’ The Colonel’s Bequest was a different type of adventure game
What if point-and-click games weren’t about the puzzles?
Samuel Axon
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With deadline looming, 4 of 9 universities reject Trump’s “compact” to remake higher ed
But Trump is pressuring the other five.
Nate Anderson
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Vaginal condition treatment update: Men should get treated, too
For bacterial vaginosis, partners are part of the problem—and the solution.
Beth Mole
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Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement
Amazon’s Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.
Scharon Harding
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Dead Ends is a fun, macabre medical history for kids
Ars chats with co-authors Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal about their delightful new children’s book.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Big Tech sues Texas, says age-verification law is “broad censorship regime”
Texas app law compared to checking IDs at bookstores and shopping malls.
Jon Brodkin
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Teen sues to destroy the nudify app that left her in constant fear
Lawsuit accuses nudify apps of training on teen victims’ images.
Ashley Belanger
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NASA’s next Moonship reaches last stop before launch pad
Preparations for the Artemis II mission continue despite the federal government shutdown.
Stephen Clark
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12 years of HDD analysis brings insight to the bathtub curve’s reliability
Backup firm brings a unique, informed perspective to HDD failure rates.
Scharon Harding
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Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand.
Samuel Axon
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Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution
A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin fossils.
Kiona N. Smith
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Apple pays $750 million for US Formula 1 streaming coverage
Some races will be free as F1 TV moves from standalone streaming to Apple TV.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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3 years, 4 championships, but 0 Le Mans wins: Assessing the Porsche 963
Riding high in IMSA but pulling out of WEC paints a complicated picture for the factory team.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans
AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.
The Conversation
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Rocket Report: China launches with no advance warning; Europe’s drone ship
Starlink, Kuiper, and the US military all saw additions to their mega-constellations this week.
Stephen Clark
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RFK Jr.’s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again
It’s unclear if Kennedy will follow through, but he supports the conspiracy theory.
Beth Mole
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AI-powered features begin creeping deeper into the bedrock of Windows 11
Copilot expands with an emphasis on creating and editing files, voice input.
Andrew Cunningham
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Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.
Dan Goodin
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Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.
Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAI’s finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman.
Benj Edwards
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OnePlus unveils OxygenOS 16 update with deep Gemini integration
Does your phone even have a Mind Space?
Ryan Whitwam
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Sony tells SCOTUS that people accused of piracy aren’t “innocent grandmothers”
Music companies want ISPs to terminate repeat infringers or pay big damages.
Jon Brodkin
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Apple TV and Peacock bundle starts at $15/month, available on Oct. 20
The bundle starts at $15/month, compared to $21/month if purchased separately.
Scharon Harding
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Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code
UZDoom fork promises to fix other top-down leadership problems with the decades-old mod.
Kyle Orland
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OpenAI thinks Elon Musk funded its biggest critics—who also hate Musk
“Cutthroat” OpenAI accused of exploiting Musk fight to intimidate and silence critics.
Ashley Belanger
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SpaceX has plans to launch Falcon Heavy from California—if anyone wants it to
There’s no big rush to bring SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Stephen Clark
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Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good
Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole.
Inside Climate News
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Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”
“AI is one thing that, as a commander, it’s been very, very interesting for me.”
Kyle Orland
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Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest
Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets
“We’re trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy.”
Eric Berger
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Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network
Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits.
Dan Goodin
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CDC tormented: HR workers summoned from furlough to lay off themselves, others
Traumatized CDC has lost 33% of its workforce this year, union says.
Beth Mole
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Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 matches May’s frontier model at fraction of cost
Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.
Benj Edwards
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ISPs angry about California law that lets renters opt out of forced payments
Gov. Newsom signs broadband billing law hated by the cable industry.
Jon Brodkin
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US demand grows for Chinese cars despite privacy and security fears
But they’re still unlikely to go on sale in the US.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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