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Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!

A celebration of the tweaks and customizations that make life easier at the CLI.

Lee Hutchinson 3 months ago

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More than just an SUV? Rivian is working on more R2 variants.

Without giving much away, CEO RJ Scaringe teased the idea of an R2 pickup and an R2X.

Jonathan M. Gitlin 3 months ago

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OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury

Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission.

Ashley Belanger 3 months ago

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Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean

Panthalassa aims to test floating AI computing nodes in the Pacific in 2026.

Jeremy Hsu 3 months ago

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Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license

State says chatbot claimed to practice medicine, gave invalid license number.

Jon Brodkin 3 months ago

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Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack

Daemon Tools users: It's time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat.

Dan Goodin 3 months ago

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RFK Jr. plans to curb antidepressants, which he falsely compares to heroin

Kennedy has made—and continues to make—many false claims about SSRIs.

Beth Mole 3 months ago

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Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls

Google's smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp.

Ryan Whitwam 3 months ago

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Trump SEC lets Musk settle $150 million Twitter lawsuit for $1.5 million

SEC alleged Musk's late disclosure cheated Twitter investors out of $150 million.

Jon Brodkin 3 months ago

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How do you design a $30,000 electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks.

We tour Ford’s top-secret Electric Vehicle Development Center in California.

Kyle Hyatt 3 months ago

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Charlize Theron is a bewitching Circe in Odyssey trailer

"You're a man who needs to control his fate. But you cannot control this."

Jennifer Ouellette 3 months ago

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Musk's Europe gamble: Will others follow the Dutch and approve FSD?

The Dutch road authority will ask other EU regulators to approve the driver assist.

Jonathan M. Gitlin 3 months ago

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DHS abuses 1930s customs law in attempt to get data on Canadian from Google

DHS targeted a man who hadn't entered the US for years for criticism of ICE operations.

Maddy Varner, wired.com. 3 months ago

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Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website

Reddit REALLY wants you to use its app.

Nate Anderson 3 months ago

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"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original

"To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version."

Andrew Cunningham 3 months ago

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Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work

Intentional errors can be useful.

Nate Anderson 3 months ago

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Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags

The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

Jeremy Hsu 3 months ago

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GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it

Amid falling revenue and store closures, GameStop wants to buy the much larger eBay.

Jon Brodkin 3 months ago

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F1 in Miami: That's what it looks like when an upgrade works

2026's Formula 1 championship now looks far from a foregone thing.

Jonathan M. Gitlin 3 months ago

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AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.

Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon.

Kyle Orland 3 months ago

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Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial

OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started.

Ashley Belanger 3 months ago

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Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms

Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.

Martha Muir, Financial Times 3 months ago

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MIT's virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool

Computational model lets users tweak parameters to hear effect on the sound in early design process.

Jennifer Ouellette 3 months ago

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Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?

Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more.

TIm Stevens 3 months ago

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