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  1. Communal stargazing using your phone: The Unistellar eQuinox 2, reviewed

    Stargaze with up to 10 of your friends no matter how bad the light pollution is.

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  2. Apple will require app devs to explain exactly why they use certain APIs

    Some seemingly innocuous APIs are misused to track users, Apple says.

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  3. Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best

    Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell."

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  4. Samsung’s profits are down 95 percent for a second consecutive quarter

    Samsung is still suffering under a glut of unsold memory chips.

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  5. Devs aren’t allowed to let Apple’s Vision Pro dev kits out of their sight

    Dev kits often have restrictive terms, but Apple gets very specific this time.

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  6. Apple Pencils can’t draw straight on third-party replacement iPad screens

    It's similar to the Face ID failures of the iPhone 13's screen, later fixed.

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  7. AMD Ryzen 7945HX3D could be a fast, super-efficient choice for your new gaming laptop

    The chip is only launching in a single laptop from Asus, at least for now.

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  8. Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion XL, its next-gen image synthesis model

    New SDXL 1.0 release allows hi-res AI image synthesis that can run on a local machine.

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  9. Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you

    Google says its own tracker ecosystem is on hold until iOS has the same protection.

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  10. Waymo kills off autonomous trucking program

    Ride-hailing will let Waymo focus on "near-term" commercial success.

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  11. The Browser Company’s unconventional browser, Arc, releases publicly on Mac

    It's still based on Chromium, but the user experience is quite different.

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  12. Google says it will start downranking non-tablet apps in the Play Store

    Google's push for big screens will include a (hopefully dramatic) Play Store redesign.

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  1. OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”

    Research shows that any AI writing detector can be defeated—and false positives abound.

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  2. Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make

    The AirPods Pro "could have been easily made repairable with minimal effort."

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  3. Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report

    Company also expects to spend ever more money to support its ongoing AI efforts.

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  4. Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android

    OpenAI brings the popular AI language model to an official Android client app.

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  5. Samsung makes the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5 official

    Samsung has a new fold-flat hinge, gives the Z flip a bigger screen.

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  6. How developers will test their apps before Vision Pro launches

    Apple opened up access to three ways to test apps on real hardware.

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  7. Android 4.4 KitKat is truly dead, loses Play Services support

    With Play Services gone, it's only a matter of time before you can't log in.

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  8. Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix

    "Zenbleed" bug affects all Zen 2-based Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC CPUs.

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  9. Jury orders Google to pay $339M for patent-infringing Chromecast 

    Google plans to appeal.

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  10. ChatGPT’s new personalization feature could save users a lot of time

    Beta feature allows ChatGPT to remember key details with less prompt repetition.

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  11. Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

    It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.

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  12. AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro

    Red Hat made being a 1:1 clone hard. So AlmaLinux is pivoting and speeding up.

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  1. Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates to fix bugs and shore up security

    Previous-generation macOS and iOS versions get new security updates, too.

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  2. Five cool features and one weird thing you’ll find in macOS 14 Sonoma

    Forget the headliners; let's talk about some less obvious stuff.

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  3. The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

    In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay.

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  4. This LiDAR-equipped 30-pound robot dog can be yours for $1,600

    It's not quite as good as a Boston Dynamics bot, but it is a lot cheaper.

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  5. IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release

    IMAX TikTok shows an emulated Palm PDA controlling Oppenheimer's 600-lb reel.

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  6. Redditors prank AI-powered news mill with “Glorbo” in World of Warcraft

    "Glorbo" isn't real, but a news-writing AI model didn't know it—and then it wrote about itself.

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  7. The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

    1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.

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  8. No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators

    Disenchanted mods Ars spoke with want change, not more communication.

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  9. Report: Apple has already built its own ChatGPT-like chatbot

    The tool is being used internally by employees—with some major restrictions.

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  10. Outlook for Windows app replaces Mail and Calendar in new Windows 11 preview

    Outlook for Windows client is still a preview with some missing features.

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  11. Google demos “unsettling” tool to help journalists write the news

    "Genesis" will seek to assist journalists, not replace them—yet.

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  12. Google’s latest price hike is for YouTube Premium, now $13.99 per month

    Move follows price increases to Family Plans, YouTube TV, Workspace, and Cloud.

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