Google’s spotty Find Hub network could get better thanks to a small setup tweak
Expanded device tracking is still opt-in.
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Is DOGE doomed to fail? Some experts are ready to call it.
Trump wants $45M to continue DOGE’s work. Critics warn costs already too high.
Looking at Framework’s progress on software support for its repairable laptops
Framework's laptops used to go years without new drivers or security patches.
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost
Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll.
Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Lenovo Legion Go S gets better frame rates running Valve's free operating system.
Ars Live: What’s up with the sudden surge in temperatures?
Zeke Hausfather of the Berkeley Earth project joins us to talk climate science.
It’s a family affair in final Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer
"Family is about connecting to something bigger than yourself. We'll face it together. As a family."
Overfishing has caused cod to halve in body size since 1990s, study finds
Evolutionary change driven by intensive fishing led cod to ‘shrink’ from average 40cm length in 1996 to 20cm in 2019
Overfishing has led to a collapse in the eastern Baltic cod population, but over the past three decades the size of the fish themselves has also been dramatically and mysteriously shrinking.
Now scientists have uncovered genomic evidence that intensive fishing has driven rapid evolutionary changes that have contributed to these fish roughly halving in average body length since the 1990s.
Continue reading...Trump’s FTC announces merger condition that prohibits advertising boycotts
Merging firms agree to FTC demands in order to create world's largest ad agency.