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The sprawling, history of Maxis’ former “serious games” division
Researchers detail SysJoker, backdoor malware targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux, that remained undetected by virtually all malware scanning engines
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Sage jumpstarted today’s technology and built IBM into a powerhouse
Samsung, which had announced a January 11 event for the Exynos 2200, didn't show up to its own product launch and has yet to provide an explanation
Microsoft posts its own teardown and repair video for the Surface Laptop SE
Sony says its upcoming VR headset PS VR2 for PS5 will have a 4K HDR OLED display, 2000×2040 pixels per eye resolution, 110-degree FoV, haptic feedback, and more
Tardigrades walk like insects 500k times their size
Rainy years can’t make up for California’s groundwater use
Legacy, an NFT-powered game by Peter Molyneux's 22cans studio and Gala Games planned for next year, raised $54M in virtual land NFT sales in less than a week
Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
Cosmic rays and radioactivity may present a challenge for scalable quantum computing, as researchers find they interfere with error correction
Kronos, one of the largest HR and workflow management companies, says a ransomware attack knocked its systems offline, possibly for the next several weeks
Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start
Mary, Queen of Scots, sealed her final missive with an intricate spiral letterlock | Ars Technica
Ubisoft’s first NFT plans make no sense
Meta’s failed Giphy deal could end Big Tech’s spending spree
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Microsoft's inclusion of buy-now-pay-later app Zip in Edge is seen by some as heavy-handed, adding bloatware that may lessen the browser's privacy and security
Researchers find Google Play apps with 300K+ downloads that stole bank credentials, posing as QR and PDF scanners, exercise apps, and cryptocurrency wallets
Securing your digital life, the finale: Debunking worthless “security” practices | Ars Technica
Autism affects the microbiome, not the other way around
A physicist studied Ben Franklin’s clever tricks to foil currency counterfeiters
Securing your digital life, part three: How smartphones make us vulnerable | Ars Technica
Researchers say they used a new Rowhammer exploit to successfully flip bits on all 40 PC-DDR4 DRAM devices they tested, defeating recent hardware mitigations
Flint water crisis costs Michigan $600M. Preventing would have cost $80/day
“We can’t get any more of our current CPU for 730 days.”
Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps
Unpacking some key aspects of what constitutes a metaverse, such as making and owning virtual property, 3D telepresence in a persistent world, and more
Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner
John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans | Ars Technica
As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show
Spiders are much smarter than you think | Ars Technica
Lidar reveals hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial centers
Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery
Securing your digital life, part one: The basics | Ars Technica
Google unveils Android 12L update focused on tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks, which tweaks big screen UI layouts, adds a taskbar, more, coming early 2022
FCC orders China Telecom Americas to stop providing services in the US within 60 days, says the US unit is subject to Chinese government control and influence
Amid harassment fallout, Blizzard says it will pause plans for next year's BlizzCon event to focus its energy on supporting its teams and game development
macOS 12 Monterey review: automation on Mac is revitalized with Shortcuts, Low Power Mode is nice, and it's packed with tons of small tweaks like AirPlay to Mac
A look at the cultural and investment shifts Intel undertook to build a leading-edge foundry business, which some say could take five years to fully appraise
John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
Theranos devices ran “null protocol” to skip actual demo for investors
Q&A with Google executives on the Pixel 6's new Tensor SoC, which has two big ARM Cortex-X1 cores, 2 medium cores, and 4 efficiency cores
Mix-and-match COVID boosters are as good—if not better than—all the same shots | Ars Technica
How a US hacker built a secret network of "news" sites and Facebook Groups to push bogus stories after an undisclosed company hired him to sway 2016's election
No, your antibodies are not better than vaccination: An explainer | Ars Technica
Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know | Ars Technica
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