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• We made a PlayStation Plus explainer that’s better than Sony’s [Updated] (Arstechnica)
  Breaking down Sony's confusing messaging with easy-to-digest tables and lists.
• President Biden to host infosec roundtable with tech giant CEOs (Arstechnica)
  2021 is a great year for the red teams of the world—blue teams, not so much.
• Climate stakes are high for ice and oceans, IPCC report explains (Arstechnica)
  Report warns of "transition to unprecedented conditions" in the ocean.
• SpaceX slams Dish’s “baseless attempt” to block Starlink’s FCC funding (Arstechnica)
  Dish is trying to "expropriate the 12 GHz band" for itself, SpaceX tells FCC.
• Quake “enhanced” re-release out before it’s announced (with Quake 64, too) (Arstechnica)
  Rumored last week, an updated version of Quake appeared on PC and console stores today.
• Today’s massive Internet outage comes courtesy of Akamai Edge DNS (Arstechnica)
  Contrary to popular belief, it's not always DNS...
• Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs (Arstechnica)
  The Phoenix controller in Samsung's own product images isn't present on newer drives.
• Personal: Rolling my own paper-based time management system (Arstechnica)
  I've always had major time management issues, but I will say that I've gotten a lot better about it all in the past year or so.
• Viridian drops some core features to ship on time. (Arstechnica)
  Viridian drops some core features to ship.
• MIT scientists reveal why water drops move faster on a hot, oil-coated surface (Arstechnica)
  Twist on the "Leidenfrost effect" could one day be used in microfluidics applications.
• Stork finally dropping off Final Cut Studio 2 (Arstechnica)
  If you're a user or follower of Apple's Final Cut Studio, you'll of course be aware of the update to Final Cut Studio, creatively titled Fi…
• US childhood SARS-CoV-2 infections surging with the current peak (Arstechnica)
  The last two weeks of July saw nearly 100,000 new cases in school-age kids and teens.
• New No Time to Die trailer showcases everything you’d expect in a Bond film (Arstechnica)
  “We both eradicate people to make the world a better place.
• Apple announces flatter, sleeker iOS 7 (Arstechnica)
  iOS loses its bubbly skeuomorphism in favor of a more two-dimensional design.
• This is Kia’s next electric car: The 300-mile EV6 (Arstechnica)
  It is the first Kia to use the brand's new 800-volt platform for electric cars.
• Halo Infinite multiplayer news: Bots, split-screen, free-to-play clarified (Arstechnica)
  Hints of new announcer system, new firepower, and multiplayer-specific tweaks.
• The Jaguar I-Pace wins World Car of the Year, World Green Car awards (Arstechnica)
  We were among the panel of 86 international jurors for the annual award program.
• Musk’s Mars moment: Audacity, madness, brilliance—or maybe all three (Arstechnica)
  Ars dissects the feasibility of SpaceX's plan to colonize Mars in the coming decades.
• Ousted COO sues Pinterest, alleges rampant gender discrimination (Arstechnica)
  Suit claims woman-focused social platform discriminates against female employees.
• AWS director sues Amazon, alleging systemic racism in corporate office (Arstechnica)
  Amazon talks up inclusion in public, but fails behind the scenes, suit claims.
• Anna and the Apocalypse: A zombie-Christmas-high school musical can’t be this good (Arstechnica)
  Prepare your undead emotions—2017 Fantastic Fest gem finally hits theaters this weekend.
• Red dust has completely covered NASA’s seismic spacecraft on Mars (Arstechnica)
  InSight lived up to its name, providing deep insights about the Martian interior.
• Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs (Arstechnica)
  Musk completes $44B purchase, fires CEO Parag Agrawal and others.
• Galaxy S8 face recognition already defeated with a simple picture (Arstechnica)
  Face unlock feature once again defeated with anything resembling owner's face.
• Cubed wombat poop, why your left nut runs hot, among Ig Nobel winners (Arstechnica)
  Prizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think."
• FCC finally orders ISPs to say exactly where they offer broadband (Arstechnica)
  ISPs will have to submit geospatial maps of broadband service areas.
• Samsung says it will stop loading its $1,000 smartphones with ads (Arstechnica)
  Samsung typically shows ads in Bixby, the weather app, Samsung Pay, and more.
• YouTube’s TikTok clone, “YouTube Shorts,” hits beta in the US (Arstechnica)
  US users can now upload and view one-minute videos in a swipe interface.
• Intel’s foundry roadmap lays out the post-nanometer “Angstrom” era (Arstechnica)
  Could the "Intel 20A" process node (that's 20 Angstroms) rival TSMC and Samsung?
• Want to offset your carbon footprint? Here’s what you need to know (Arstechnica)
  Don’t just count on planted trees to offset your next flight.
• Google settles federal gender and race discrimination charges for $3.8M (Arstechnica)
  About 5,500 workers will receive a few hundred dollars each from the deal.
• 2021’s World Car of the Year goes to the electric Volkswagen ID.4 (Arstechnica)
  Plus, the adorable Honda E wins World Urban Car.
• Microsoft’s Surface Duo falls even lower, now almost $1000 off (Arstechnica)
  71 percent off is a sad ending for Microsoft's first self-branded Android phone.
• Google’s Fuchsia OS will soon roll out to all first-gen Nest Hubs (Arstechnica)
  Fuchsia is out of the Nest Hub preview program.
• Sony joins the classic-console fray with $99 PlayStation Classic on Dec. 3 (Arstechnica)
  First five games confirmed, including Final Fantasy VII, Tekken 3.
• NASA awards lunar lander contracts to Blue Origin, Dynetics—and Starship (Arstechnica)
  “Between the three contractors, I think NASA has everything it needs to be successful.”...
• The physics behind how fire ants band together into robust floating “rafts” (Arstechnica)
  Fire ants respond to shearing forces by minimizing the surface area of their rafts.
• In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move? (Arstechnica)
  We have to draw a line between open source and the right to make money with open source."
• Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for Right to Repair laws slowly grows (Arstechnica)
  The right to repair battle trudges on despite a record amount of legislative proposals.
• PS4 gamepads won’t work for PS5 games, Sony says (Arstechnica)
  Contrast with Microsoft's plan to bring Xbox One controllers forward for Series X.
• Win hardware, collectibles, and more in the 2025 Ars Technica Charity Drive (Arstechnica)
  Help yourself to prizes by helping us raise money for good causes.
• Proposed bill that would regulate NSF research funding faces backlash (Arstechnica)
  Scientists not amused, bill's backers appear confused.
• Mad God: What happens when the best practical VFX artist, ever, writes a film? (Arstechnica)
  Phil Tippett's love letter to practical effects and monster creation is be-a-u-tiful.
• Strawberry Mansion: A great sci-fi premise with trippy, arthouse execution (Arstechnica)
  In this film, society can track dreams, so of course someone's out to monetize 'em.
• DirectX 12 Ultimate brings Xbox Series X features to PC gaming (Arstechnica)
  DX12U will bring DirectX Raytracing, Mesh Shaders, and more to Windows PCs.
• NVIDIA exec to PC makers: Pimping overpriced gaming PCs hurts (Arstechnica)
  Roy Taylor, VP of content relations for NVIDIA, says that some gaming publishers feel that way, particularly when DirectX 10 is involved.
• Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022 (Arstechnica)
  Alchemist" will be Intel's first serious dedicated gaming GPU.
• BMW has a new all-electric model coming in 2020—the iX3 (Arstechnica)
  Based on the current X3 crossover, it uses BMW's 5th-gen electric powertrain.
• MPAA to FCC: Net neutrality could kill a cornucopia of content (monitoring) (Arstechnica)
  We pointed out yesterday that the FCC's Notice of Inquiry regarding network neutrality has attracted nearly 27,000 comments, most from indi…
• New hack runs homebrew code from DVD-R on unmodified PlayStation 2 (Arstechnica)
  Exploit found in DVD player software can also load copies of full PS2 games.