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Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic — A new day has dawned in the…
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA — On Friday, a judge largely…
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Though Google's SynthID tech for watermarking AI images is hard to break, there will always be ways to create AI-generated content without any labeling — Deciding what's real on the…
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall “feeling”, amid its legal battles with book authors — OpenAI's…
Joshua Cohen / Ars Technica: A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-coverage decisions like prior authorization as the Trump admin starts to pilot using AI to evaluate Medicare claims — If you're like me…
Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions — Experts explain how…
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% — Prompt…
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't apply to children's profiles — Recently, my father…
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Streaming services must comply with a California law that bans playing ads louder than the content being watched from July 1, but its implementation is unclear — On July 1, it will…
Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: Nvidia researchers unveil ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that develops robotic self-improvement strategies for physical tasks with minimal human supervision — What happens when you…
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: Anthropic pauses its anticipated move to token-based billing for Claude Agent SDK that it planned to implement on June 15, saying “Nothing changes for now” — On Monday…
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden introduce the JAWBONE Act, which would let Americans sue federal officials who try to coerce broadcasters or platforms to censor speech — US Senators Ted Cruz…
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX — Critics hope to…
Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica: A study of Waymo robotaxi data for 13.8M trips from August 2023 to December 2025: the share of miles driven with a passenger onboard climbed from 36% to 56% — The age of…
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: GitHub Copilot's new pricing model went into effect today, and many noted sticker shock with some saying a few hours of AI usage ate big chunks of monthly caps — In April, GitHub…