Guidemaster: Game controllers to turn your smartphone into a mobile gaming machine (arstechnica.com)
Physics reveals secret of how nature helped sculpt the Great Sphinx of Giza (arstechnica.com)
Reddit forces personalized ads, starts X-like user payment program (arstechnica.com)
Reddit rolled out some changes this week as its continues its push for revenue and profitability jumpstarted by its API rule changes in July. Among the most controversial, the company will no longer allow users to opt out of ad personalization based on their Reddit activity and started a program that lets users exchange virtual...
Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts (arstechnica.com)
Purchasers of worthless digital monkeys sue worthless digital monkey auction house after realizing that digital monkeys are worthless (arstechnica.com)
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The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives (arstechnica.com)
In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay.
Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console (arstechnica.com)
How archaeologists reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE (arstechnica.com)
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)
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Netflix lands its first big-name games with Grand Theft Auto trilogy (arstechnica.com)
Infocom’s ingenious code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found (arstechnica.com)
Cities: Skylines 2’s troubled launch, and why simulation games are freaking hard (arstechnica.com)
AI-powered hate speech detection will moderate voice chat in Call of Duty (arstechnica.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail (arstechnica.com)
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The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)
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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)
Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011 (arstechnica.com)
Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out (arstechnica.com)
The flight from Musk's Twitter to the "free" fediverse never really took off.
