Pornhub pulls out of Montana, NC as age-verification battle rages on (arstechnica.com)
SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker (arstechnica.com)
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric cars. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world. (arstechnica.com)
Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine (arstechnica.com)
CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants (arstechnica.com)
New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs (arstechnica.com)
Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator (arstechnica.com)
After COVID killed off a flu strain, annual flu shots are in for a redesign (arstechnica.com)
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I spy with my Cold War satellite eye... nearly 400 Roman forts in the Middle East (arstechnica.com)
Anthropologists suggest forts were built to secure key trade routes through the region.
Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits (arstechnica.com)
Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower high cholesterol (arstechnica.com)
Data broker’s “staggering” sale of sensitive info exposed in unsealed FTC filing (arstechnica.com)
Below is a disturbing amount of information data brokers have ammased from buying your data from trackers in ads and apps....
Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)
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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