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Study says roads bring more fires to forests; USDA wants more roads to fight fires

Ars Technica - All content·@Arstechnica·2 months ago
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When the Trump administration announced plans last year to rescind a rule limiting roadbuilding and timber harvests on millions of acres of national forests and grasslands, officials called the repeal necessary to prevent and manage wild...

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DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator

Ars Technica - All content·@AviAsher-Schapiro·2 months ago
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Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the US government built its first rudimentary nuclear pow...

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Millions of iPhones can be hacked with a new tool found in the wild

Ars Technica - All content·@Arstechnica·2 months ago
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iPhone hacking techniques have sometimes been described almost like rare and elusive animals: Hackers have used them so stealthily and carefully against such a small number of hand-picked targets that they're only rarely seen in the wild.

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Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway

Ars Technica - All content·@Arstechnica·2 months ago
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In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings.

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Arizona indicts prediction market Kalshi for running illegal gambling operation

Ars Technica - All content·@Arstechnica·2 months ago
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Arizona’s attorney general filed criminal charges against prediction market Kalshi, accusing it of operating a gambling business without a license and offering illegal wagers on elections.

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No accountability: Bills would ban liability lawsuits for climate change

Ars Technica - All content·@Arstechnica·2 months ago
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Republican lawmakers in multiple states and Congress are advancing proposals to shield polluters from climate accountability and prevent any type of liability for climate change harms—even as these harms and their associated costs contin...

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We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming

Ars Technica - All content·@Arstechnica·2 months ago
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In the three decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the US was relatively rare—a few hundred cases each year, at most.

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Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance's Chinese apps

Ars Technica - All content·@Arstechnica·2 months ago
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While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in the United States from downloading other apps made by the video platform’s Chinese parent organization ByteDa...

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Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"

Ars Technica - All content·@StephenMorrisFinancialTimes·2 months ago
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Elon Musk has acknowledged that the tweet at the center of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit over his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter “may not have been my wisest” as the world’s richest man defends himself from allegations of market mani...

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Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?

Ars Technica - All content·@MarthaMuirFinancialTimes·2 months ago
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Big Tech is set to agree to build its own power plants for data centers and shield consumers from rising electricity costs, but companies face daunting logistical obstacles to delivering on the pledge championed by President Donald Trump.

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This is why our electricity bills are so high right now

Ars Technica - All content·@Arstechnica·2 months ago
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—Protestors stood in the snow outside the offices of Ohio’s utility regulator in January to say they were fed up with rising electricity rates.

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