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• Seven Security Bulletins for Patch Tuesday (Arstechnica)
  Next Tuesday, Microsoft will release seven Security Bulletins, including a fix for the Windows DNS Server vulnerability that affects both W…
• LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions (Arstechnica)
  Judge tosses lawsuits, says plaintiffs didn't allege any real privacy violation.
• Remembering Microsoft's Jim Gray (Arstechnica)
  On January 28, 2007, Microsoft researcher and world-renowned computer scientist Jim Gray disappeared while sailing off the coast of San Fra…
• Google Play Games for PC is getting more premium titles and cross-buy with Android (Arstechnica)
  Google is more focused on desktop gaming than ever before.
• Sony says it “will explore” more PC ports for PlayStation titles (Arstechnica)
  Yet another crack shows in the company's walled console garden.
• Apple’s WWDC 2013 tickets sold out in a record two minutes (or less) (Arstechnica)
  Apple's developer community is not pleased.
• The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches (Arstechnica)
  The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot.
• Finder data loss bug squashed in latest 10.5.1 developer seeds (Arstechnica)
  Now that the initial shock of learning that Apple is working on a 10.5.1 update has worn off, more details of exactly what this update addr…
• A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project (Arstechnica)
  Mono had many homes over 23 years, but Wine's repos might be its final stop.
• Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google" (Arstechnica)
  One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
• An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light (Arstechnica)
  Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.
• If governments can block top level domains, is .gay doomed? (Arstechnica)
  We’ve already reported on the Recording Industry Association of America’s bid to make it simpler to object to new gTLDs that Big Content th…
• Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes (Arstechnica)
  Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.
• AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner (Arstechnica)
  New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
• Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms (Arstechnica)
  After hack and data breach, senator asks why Trump Mobile lacks some FCC filings.
• Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine? (Arstechnica)
  I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan."
• Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon (Arstechnica)
  Nationwide 800 MHz spectrum to help Starlink provide mobile coverage indoors.
• SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink (Arstechnica)
  These led to conjunctions of tens of meters to hundreds of meters.
• SP1s of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 arrive (Arstechnica)
  Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 were released together just nine months ago. After releasing beta versions of .NET Framework 3.5…
• Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027 (Arstechnica)
  Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February.
• US to ICANN: plan to sell new gTLDs is a real stinker (Arstechnica)
  The United States government has issued its own response and evaluation of ICANN's impending plan to open between 200-800 gTLDs for sale at…
• Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches (Arstechnica)
  A federal jury in Texas recently ruled in favor of a man who sued Bexar County and its sheriff over allegations that the agency ran what th…
• RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing (Arstechnica)
  Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies.
• Apple freezes over-the-phone password resets in response to Honan hack (Updated) (Arstechnica)
  After Wired reporter was hacked, Apple is following Amazon's security lead.
• What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains? (Arstechnica)
  Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
• Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots (Arstechnica)
  Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 betas arrive (Arstechnica)
  Microsoft has today released the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta and the .NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1 Beta, adding new features…
• RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries (Arstechnica)
  anti-vax agenda keeps getting more corrupt and dangerous."
• Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever (Arstechnica)
  Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.
• ICANN: No government veto over controversial top-level domains (Arstechnica)
  Less than two weeks away from ICANN’s conference in San Francisco, representatives from the organization’s Government Advisory Committee ha…
• A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis (Arstechnica)
  Stylish upcycling, with a retro flair, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
• PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023 (Arstechnica)
  The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
• Microsoft readies Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 (Arstechnica)
  Less than two months after the release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Microsoft has revealed how Visual Studio 2010…
• Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here (Arstechnica)
  The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old.
• Registrars raise alarm over proposal for big .com fee hikes (Arstechnica)
  Proposed contract allows Verisign to raise registration fees 7 percent per year.
• Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release (Arstechnica)
  Debian Linux has put a call out for artist submissions for its next release: Forky.
• Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial (Arstechnica)
  CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
• NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations (Arstechnica)
  We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
• One day later, additional Nintendo Switch details dribble out (Arstechnica)
  New info about the dock, games, and hardware support following announcement...
• Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone (Arstechnica)
  Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
• Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year (Arstechnica)
  If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it."
• AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (Arstechnica)
  Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
• Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules (Arstechnica)
  Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals.
• “Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones (Arstechnica)
  Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
• Microsoft to open source .NET Micro Framework (Arstechnica)
  Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Micro Framework version 4.
• Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts (Arstechnica)
  Judge questioned if Trump delaying access to Truth Social posts by a second harms the press.