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Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities (arstechnica.com)

RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time (arstechnica.com)

Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin (arstechnica.com)

Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities (arstechnica.com)

Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain (arstechnica.com)

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Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain (arstechnica.com)

I like that their implant is simply laid on top of the brain, instead of driving electrodes into brain tissue like Neuralink. I'd like to keep my brain unscarred.

Google is killing off the messaging service inside Google Maps (arstechnica.com)

Another body to add to the Google Graveyard™. Anyone ever actually use this feature?

Nvidia denies pirate e-book sites are “shadow libraries” to shut down lawsuit (arstechnica.com)

Lawsuit argues Call of Duty helped cause the Uvalde school shooting (arstechnica.com)

Suit: Activision is "manipulating players' brain chemistry," ignoring "use by minors."...

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)

OpenAI backpedals on scandalous tactic to silence former employees (arstechnica.com)

Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition (arstechnica.com)

With Minnesota repeal, number of states restricting public broadband falls to 16.

Could this be the Start of a Trend? (arstechnica.com)

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)

The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.

Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has (arstechnica.com)

Was wondering what the hell was going on this morning.

Teslas can still be stolen with a cheap radio hack despite new keyless tech (arstechnica.com)

T-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plans (arstechnica.com)

On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers (arstechnica.com)

A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why. (arstechnica.com)

For 4 days, the c-root server maintained by Cogent lost touch with its 12 peers.

Humane AI Pin is a disaster: Founders already want to sell the company (arstechnica.com)

Despite seemingly having nothing else in the pipeline and the AI Pin being dead on arrival, Bloomberg reports the company is "seeking a price of between $750 million and $1 billion in a sale."