Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem (arstechnica.com)
Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden (arstechnica.com)
Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden (arstechnica.com)
No one needs this cryptocurrency-powered Steam Deck competitor (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk shares “extremely false” allegation of voting fraud by “illegals” (arstechnica.com)
It could well be a blockbuster hurricane season, and that’s not a good thing (arstechnica.com)
Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, 200 artists say AI poses existential threat to their livelihoods (arstechnica.com)
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling (arstechnica.com)
The truly shocking thing to me is that any voters believe the ISP’s arguments and are … I guess fine with a portion of their monthly bills being earmarked for litigation to make their consumer experience ever worse....
Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week (arstechnica.com)
China has a big problem with super gonorrhea, study finds (arstechnica.com)
Drug-resistant gonorrhea is a growing problem—one that doesn’t heed borders....
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.
Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)
in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”...
Cities: Skylines 2 gets long-awaited official mod support and map editor (arstechnica.com)
Cities: Skylines 2 gets long-awaited official mod support and map editor (arstechnica.com)
Super Mario Maker’s “final boss” was a fraud all along (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/10825494...
Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default (arstechnica.com)
The restored Star Trek Enterprise-D bridge goes on display in May (arstechnica.com)
After appeal to Musk, X suspends accounts that outed neo-Nazi cartoonist (arstechnica.com)
Researchers, journalists are blocked from sharing the alleged identity of Stonetoss....
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
Supreme Court skeptical about restricting Biden contacts with social networks (arstechnica.com)
Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken (arstechnica.com)
Redwoods are growing almost as fast in the UK as their Californian cousins (arstechnica.com)
Urban Diets Lead to Decline in Gut Bacteria That Digest Plants (arstechnica.com)
This article discusses a new study on the link between gut bacteria and diet, particularly the ability to digest cellulose, a major component of plants....
Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet (arstechnica.com)
Ars provides this asterisk:...
Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued (arstechnica.com)
