ArsTechnica
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Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US
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Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry
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$599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost
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Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed
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Apple's new iPhone 17e has an A19 chip, MagSafe, and 256GB of storage for $599
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It's almost a station wagon: The 2026 Subaru Trailseeker, driven
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Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding
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Trump FCC's equal-time crackdown doesn't apply equallyâor at allâto talk radio
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AMD Ryzen AI 400 chips will bring newer CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs to AM5 desktops
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The strange animals that control their body heat
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Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government
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In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT
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Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space
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The Air Force's new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but thereâs nowhere to put it
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Under a Paramount-WBD merger, two struggling media giants would unite
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Photons that aren't actually there influence superconductivity
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Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border
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The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
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Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77
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How strong is New York's "illegal gambling" case against Valve's loot boxes?
Techmeme
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Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connectivity is at 1% of ordinary levels (Bloomberg)
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New York-based Ease Health, which is building an AI-native OS for behavioral health providers, emerged from stealth and raised a $41M Series A led by a16z (Vignesh R/Tech Funding News)
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Alibaba releases the open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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Sources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday, as markets were rattled by the strikes in Iran (Echo Wang/Reuters)
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ByteDance shares details about its "Project Swan" headset, set to launch this year with a 4,000-PPI micro-OLED display, and unveils Pico OS 6, its new XR OS (David Heaney/UploadVR)
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A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B (New York Times)
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Anthropic's $60B+ in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon (Dan Primack/Axios)
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Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October (Financial Times)
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X announces a "Paid Partnership" label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
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The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
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A look at the rights AI companies have in US government contracts, such as the "any lawful use" standard, amid the Anthropic-DOD dispute and the OpenAI-DOD deal (Jessica Tillipman)
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Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)
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Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while abiding by Apple's privacy standards (The Information)
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Apple updates the iPad Air with M4, featuring an 8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 12GB of unified memory, an N1 networking chip, for $599+ and $799+ in 11" or 13" sizes (Apple)