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WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app (arstechnica.com)

2254 points by erwinmatijsen over 3 years ago | 1148 comments
WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted (arstechnica.com)

1279 points by bjelkeman-again about 3 years ago | 672 comments
Gordon Bell has died (arstechnica.com)

1257 points by dcminter 4 months ago | 70 comments
Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August (arstechnica.com)

1232 points by danbr over 3 years ago | 601 comments
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes (arstechnica.com)

1135 points by carride about 2 years ago | 427 comments
Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests (arstechnica.com)

1108 points by thunderbong over 1 year ago | 498 comments
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)

1090 points by jakobdabo about 1 year ago | 465 comments
European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)

1025 points by mbrubeck 7 months ago | 638 comments
Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers (arstechnica.com)

974 points by edvinbesic about 1 year ago | 557 comments
Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start (arstechnica.com)

876 points by slobotron almost 3 years ago | 716 comments
US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design (arstechnica.com)

829 points by papa-whisky about 2 years ago | 742 comments
John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset (arstechnica.com)

817 points by JaimeThompson almost 3 years ago | 304 comments
Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019) (arstechnica.com)

797 points by Tomte over 3 years ago | 424 comments
Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game (arstechnica.com)

747 points by danso almost 2 years ago | 267 comments
Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever (arstechnica.com)

720 points by jbredeche over 2 years ago | 669 comments
Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos (arstechnica.com)

684 points by imgabe over 3 years ago | 388 comments
Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion (arstechnica.com)

662 points by samizdis over 1 year ago | 100 comments
Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find (arstechnica.com)

655 points by Stratoscope 9 months ago | 233 comments
Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business (arstechnica.com)

633 points by cpascal over 3 years ago | 318 comments
Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere (arstechnica.com)

619 points by FridayoLeary over 1 year ago | 193 comments
Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot (arstechnica.com)

589 points by hassanahmad about 2 years ago | 559 comments
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)

585 points by thunderbong 9 months ago | 401 comments
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever" (arstechnica.com)

582 points by nickthegreek 7 months ago | 302 comments
Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds (arstechnica.com)

582 points by dagenix 8 months ago | 83 comments
Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI (arstechnica.com)

581 points by jncraton 10 months ago | 722 comments
Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband (arstechnica.com)

577 points by samizdis over 3 years ago | 394 comments
Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing (arstechnica.com)

540 points by Engineering-MD over 3 years ago | 183 comments
Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering (arstechnica.com)

539 points by isaacfrond about 1 year ago | 973 comments
NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances (arstechnica.com)

529 points by justinc8687 9 months ago | 891 comments
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from the start" (arstechnica.com)

522 points by MBCook 8 months ago | 270 comments
Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win (arstechnica.com)

530 points by cratermoon 3 months ago | 544 comments
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy (arstechnica.com)

509 points by edsimpson 6 months ago | 208 comments
Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D (arstechnica.com)

503 points by PaulHoule 7 months ago | 268 comments
Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC (arstechnica.com)

486 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 314 comments
ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule (arstechnica.com)

483 points by LinuxBender about 1 year ago | 363 comments
Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy (arstechnica.com)

473 points by PaulHoule over 1 year ago | 214 comments
Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes (arstechnica.com)

473 points by vintagedave 11 months ago | 189 comments
WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code (arstechnica.com)

459 points by Tomte 7 months ago | 148 comments
Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represents small developers (arstechnica.com)

458 points by commoner almost 2 years ago | 199 comments
100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say (arstechnica.com)

447 points by caution over 3 years ago | 238 comments
Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says (arstechnica.com)

443 points by samizdis about 3 years ago | 264 comments
4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using advanced exploit (arstechnica.com)

436 points by airstrike 9 months ago | 7 comments
Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents (arstechnica.com)

435 points by pseudolus about 3 years ago | 255 comments
Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling (arstechnica.com)

435 points by ndesaulniers about 2 years ago | 361 comments
Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit (arstechnica.com)

434 points by JaimeThompson over 2 years ago | 211 comments
Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)

433 points by Sporktacular about 1 year ago | 389 comments
To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work (arstechnica.com)

429 points by wglb over 2 years ago | 213 comments
Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says (arstechnica.com)

425 points by nixass over 3 years ago | 354 comments
Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)

423 points by my12parsecs 10 months ago | 359 comments
Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support (arstechnica.com)

417 points by thg over 3 years ago | 218 comments
As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show (arstechnica.com)

417 points by samizdis almost 3 years ago | 379 comments
Comcast gave false map data to FCC (arstechnica.com)

416 points by carride over 1 year ago | 148 comments
Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts (arstechnica.com)

414 points by thunderbong about 1 year ago | 280 comments
California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs (arstechnica.com)

413 points by buran77 over 3 years ago | 85 comments
Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to (arstechnica.com)

413 points by throwawaysea over 3 years ago | 212 comments
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (arstechnica.com)

410 points by throwaway888abc over 3 years ago | 277 comments
Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery (arstechnica.com)

409 points by sohkamyung almost 3 years ago | 202 comments
Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules (arstechnica.com)

407 points by eastdakota almost 3 years ago | 176 comments
Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack (arstechnica.com)

407 points by carride over 1 year ago | 273 comments
Google says iMessage is too powerful (arstechnica.com)

405 points by ryan_j_naughton over 2 years ago | 629 comments
Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise (arstechnica.com)

405 points by coloneltcb 10 months ago | 170 comments
Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker (arstechnica.com)

402 points by Shank 10 months ago | 163 comments
Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple (arstechnica.com)

399 points by throwaway2037 7 months ago | 151 comments
The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket (arstechnica.com)

397 points by ChickeNES over 1 year ago | 171 comments
Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture (arstechnica.com)

393 points by soulbadguy over 1 year ago | 212 comments
The Samsung Galaxy S23’s bloated Android build somehow uses 60GB of storage (arstechnica.com)

389 points by carride over 1 year ago | 369 comments
Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s (arstechnica.com)

387 points by dangle1 almost 2 years ago | 209 comments
Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government (arstechnica.com)

387 points by cm_silva about 1 year ago | 733 comments
Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50% (arstechnica.com)

386 points by elsewhen about 3 years ago | 104 comments
AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack (arstechnica.com)

386 points by gardenfelder over 1 year ago | 199 comments
FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee (arstechnica.com)

384 points by mfiguiere about 1 year ago | 236 comments
Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)

383 points by rntn 11 months ago | 375 comments
Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine (arstechnica.com)

382 points by bovem 11 months ago | 192 comments
Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy” (arstechnica.com)

381 points by barbazoo over 1 year ago | 4 comments
F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI (arstechnica.com)

381 points by ramn7 7 months ago | 73 comments
Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says (arstechnica.com)

380 points by rezonant 5 months ago | 358 comments
In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router (arstechnica.com)

379 points by xoa over 3 years ago | 160 comments
ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law (arstechnica.com)

376 points by zdw over 2 years ago | 301 comments
New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped (arstechnica.com)

368 points by furcyd over 3 years ago | 195 comments
Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill (arstechnica.com)

365 points by CharlesW over 1 year ago | 169 comments
FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages (arstechnica.com)

365 points by mfiguiere over 1 year ago | 173 comments
Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users (arstechnica.com)

365 points by stereoradonc over 1 year ago | 306 comments
Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says (arstechnica.com)

361 points by nataz 10 months ago | 261 comments
The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo (arstechnica.com)

360 points by feross over 3 years ago | 308 comments
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)

360 points by thunderbong about 1 year ago | 88 comments
Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record cops at close range (arstechnica.com)

359 points by arunbahl about 2 years ago | 237 comments
FTC sues Intuit in bid to stop “deceptive” ads that claim TurboTax is free (arstechnica.com)

358 points by nevir over 2 years ago | 1 comments
TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround (arstechnica.com)

358 points by a-human over 3 years ago | 189 comments
Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon (arstechnica.com)

351 points by tosh over 2 years ago | 216 comments
Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps (arstechnica.com)

346 points by cpeterso almost 3 years ago | 137 comments
Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results (arstechnica.com)

346 points by CHB0403085482 10 months ago | 262 comments
After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads (arstechnica.com)

344 points by MBCook 11 months ago | 282 comments
Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urging DOJ investigation (arstechnica.com)

343 points by ProAm over 2 years ago | 100 comments
Not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack (arstechnica.com)

343 points by jbonniwell over 3 years ago | 95 comments
AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough (arstechnica.com)

340 points by danaris over 3 years ago | 219 comments
Meta's new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB photos (arstechnica.com)

338 points by my12parsecs 10 months ago | 219 comments
Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck” (arstechnica.com)

337 points by 60654 over 2 years ago | 464 comments
Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year (arstechnica.com)

334 points by A4ET8a8uTh0 almost 2 years ago | 364 comments
Wolfenstein 3D secrets revealed by John Romero in lengthy post-mortem chat (arstechnica.com)

330 points by WithinReason over 2 years ago | 113 comments
Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech (arstechnica.com)

330 points by e12e over 1 year ago | 159 comments