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• Three iOS 0-days revealed by researcher frustrated with Apple’s bug bounty (Arstechnica)
  Public disclosure was motivated by frustration with Apple's bug bounty program.
• Cut the Rope: Experiments comes to iOS, brings new gimmicks (Arstechnica)
  Cut the Rope: Experiments is out, and it's cheap.
• Emulation community expresses defiance in wake of Nintendo’s Yuzu lawsuit (Arstechnica)
  EmuDev" coders cite precautions, legal differences they say will offer protection.
• Sex can relieve nasal congestion, and other work honored by 2021 Ig Nobels (Arstechnica)
  The awards ceremony took place virtually for a second year due to the ongoing pandemic.
• Best Buy says goodbye to Grandma's analog TV (Arstechnica)
  The day is approaching when all of us in-the-know gadget lovers are going to get that dreaded phone call from grandma asking us why her TV…
• Monday before iPhone tidbit roundup (Arstechnica)
  Photo courtesy of Vicarious Music In an attempt to control a small fraction of the madness, we'll be posting i Phone roundups with i Phone…
• Developers react to iOS 7 and being “Sherlocked” at WWDC 2013 (Arstechnica)
  Ars talked to the crowd on the WWDC showfloor.
• The enemy adapts: the state of spam, malware, and phishing scams (Arstechnica)
  As users and security companies adapt to common malware attack vectors...
• Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door (Arstechnica)
  The 0–60 time is impressive, the miles/kWh number even more so.
• Switch emulator makers agree to pay $2.4 million to settle Nintendo lawsuit (Arstechnica)
  Yuzu devs shut down emulator they now say is "primarily designed" to break DRM.
• Tesla drops prices up to 20 percent in attempt to drive sales (Arstechnica)
  The electric automaker is beginning to look a bit desperate for customers.
• Tesla Cybertruck Hot Wheels toy ships late—just like real Tesla cars (Arstechnica)
  Elon Musk can't be blamed for this production delay.
• By the numbers: piracy rate in China down 10 percent (Arstechnica)
  The software piracy rate in China dropped four percentage points in 2006 from a year prior, according to a new report released by the Busin…
• SEC probing Activision Blizzard in wake of harassment, discrimination lawsuits (Arstechnica)
  CEO Bobby Kotick and other execs subpoenaed, personnel files requested.
• Nude hunt: LA phisherman accessed 4,700 iCloud accounts, 620K photos (Arstechnica)
  The attacker seems to have relied on social engineering to hoodwink his victims.
• X.org releases version 7.3, gets hotplugging support (Arstechnica)
  X.org is the underlying graphical workhorse that powers pretty much every desktop installation on Linux and Unix operating systems.
• Second lab worker with deadly prion disease prompts research pause in France (Arstechnica)
  A lab worker died of prion disease in 2019, nine years after a lab accident.
• Flexible feline spines shed light on "falling cat" problem (Arstechnica)
  Falling cats in the study also seemed to show a marked preference for turning to the right.
• Racing turns its back on heavy, expensive hybrids for sustainable fuel (Arstechnica)
  Racing's experiment with hybrid powertrains isn't going great.
• Web 2-point-Yoda: Ended these browser wars have? (Arstechnica)
  Over the last few years, we've seen both Opera and Firefox make strides on Internet Explorer's dominant market share, but the overwhelming…
• OmniFocus for Mac finally seeing the light of day (Arstechnica)
  First we got Omni Dazzle: […] a set of fun and useful enhancements that help you highlight certain areas of your screen, create visual effe…
• AMD announces one last Ryzen 5000 CPU while teasing all-new Ryzen 7000 series (Arstechnica)
  Ryzen 5800X3D will probably be the last stop for the venerable AM4 CPU socket.
• Microsoft considers releasing Visual FoxPro source code (Arstechnica)
  Last month, Microsoft announced that there would be no Visual Fox Pro 10. Instead, the release cycle would end at Visual Fox Pro 9 Service…
• Driver that promised faster Ethereum mining for Nvidia GPUs is full of viruses (Arstechnica)
  Obviously, you shouldn't install "special" drivers from sketchy third parties.
• Report: Many evils lurk in the "dark corners" of the Internet (Arstechnica)
  Protecting yourself while surfing the web is essential. Unfortunately, your computer's security is not entirely dependent on the software y…
• Dell sending mixed message by backing Microsoft-Novell alliance (Arstechnica)
  Hardware vendor Dell has purchased SUSE Linux Enterprise Server license certificates from Microsoft.
• Measles vaccinations rose 291% among New Mexico adults during outbreak (Arstechnica)
  Despite anti-vaccine rhetoric, New Mexico residents embraced lifesaving shots.
• Russian school teacher fined over alleged Microsoft piracy (Arstechnica)
  Earlier this year, the case of school principal Alexander Ponosov, who had been arrested and charged with piracy, made international news w…
• NASA sets sail into a promising but perilous future of private space stations (Arstechnica)
  NASA selects a mix of large and small US companies, and old and new players.
• New Samsung 980 SSD improves on 970 EVO, EVO Plus performance (Arstechnica)
  Samsung's ever-shifting consumer branding drops "EVO" suffix entirely this time.
• Digital exchange loses $137 million as founder takes passwords to the grave (Arstechnica)
  QuadrigaCX survivors try to hack encrypted laptop in hopes of accessing cold wallet.
• Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50% [Updated] (Arstechnica)
  Most people wouldn't notice most of the time, but that doesn't make it OK.
• Be cautious of that serious data loss bug in Leopard (Arstechnica)
  Perhaps on par with the infamous file-deleting i Tunes update of several years back, some users of Apple's OS X 10.5 are reporting that the…
• NYTimes: iPhone shaking up the media and mobile phone industries (Arstechnica)
  The RDF is turned up to 11 this week due to the impending i Phone launch, however most of the coverage is focusing on Friday's launch and i…
• SueTube: sex, copyright, and rock & roll (Arstechnica)
  Since its launch, YouTube has been a magnet for controversy.
• AT&T can’t hang up on landline phone customers, California agency rules (Arstechnica)
  State dismisses AT&T application to end Carrier of Last Resort obligation.
• Silicon Knights sues Epic over Unreal Engine 3 issues (Arstechnica)
  Third-party development tools are a common necessity in the software development industry; game development included.
• Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs (Arstechnica)
  Four women sue Amazon, say company denied basic accommodations and fired them.
• What I learned from my first few months with a Bambu Lab A1 3D printer, part 1 (Arstechnica)
  One neophyte's first steps into the wide world of 3D printing.
• NEC launches new PlasmaSync Professional line of plasma displays (Arstechnica)
  NEC recently announced its new Plasma Sync Professional Series of plasma displays which are aimed at government and educational institution…
• 3G-only Kindles begin their long, slow death this year (Arstechnica)
  The 2021/2022 3G sunset will affect even 8th-gen (2016) Kindle devices.
• Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America (Arstechnica)
  Radiocarbon results suggest a single origin and rapid diffusion through cultural transition networks.
• Facebook Pay extends its reach later this summer (Arstechnica)
  August's expansion is Facebook Pay's first step out of the Facebook ecosystem.
• After a drama-filled day, Boeing’s Starliner finally finds its way (Arstechnica)
  I think we’re missing something fundamental that’s going on inside the thrusters."
• Startup hopes the world is ready to buy quantum processors (Arstechnica)
  Quantum processors are mostly used via cloud services; QuantWare will ship you one.
• Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more (Arstechnica)
  AI content is getting good, but SynthID might be able to help tell truth from fiction.
• Hurricane Ida slammed into Louisiana and then didn’t really weaken. Why? (Arstechnica)
  This slow weakening is in stark contrast to a typical hurricane.
• Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users (Arstechnica)
  Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 42 months earlier, is fixed.
• Details emerge on Microsoft's new web analytics tool (Arstechnica)
  Thanks to blogger Dave Naylor, screenshots of Microsoft's web analytics tool...
• Adobe's new Buzzword: online word processing and collaboration (Arstechnica)
  Mention Adobe, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Photoshop, or maybe Acrobat.