3+ week, 2+ day ago  (78+ words) If someone wants to propose that data centers should have to compensate neighbors for the new noise pollution (including, potentially, offering to buy them out above market value), I think that would be a sensible thing to suggest. But the…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (54+ words) First off, I am not being an apologist here. Ads in any apps suck. But I live my life in a relatively rural area, and Apple Maps was better than Google Maps in my rural areas since day one. Google....

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (361+ words) Signal "very happy" Apple fixed bug storing private chats after app was deleted. Apple fixed a security bug that made it possible for cops to access content from deleted Signal messages. On Wednesday, Apple confirmed that it had fixed a…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (609+ words) Ryan Whitwam is a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, covering the ways Google, AI, and mobile technology continue to change the world. Over his 20-year career, he's written for Android Police, Extreme Tech, Wirecutter, NY Times, and more. Nothing,…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (96+ words) Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock customers must look elsewhere for new certificates. Google says its Chrome browser will stop trusting certificates from two certificate authorities after "patterns of concerning behavior observed over the past year" diminished trust in their reliability. According…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (190+ words) Hey guys, discussions about moderation go in Help and Feedback, not here. That's part of the compulsory Posting Guidelines you all have to adhere to. If you continue to drag this thread off topic with whining about moderation, you'll be…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (230+ words) In that very recent Ars Help & Feedback thread about Aurich shutting down a certain perpetual thread on a whim, while still blatantly accusing the posters of "trying to hide from moderation" (which is total nonsense and lies, since all and…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (140+ words) The way that Ars authors can add "in-comment replies" (see mild example pic below) never feels quite right: it's no longer clear who the upvotes or downvotes are for once the in-comment reply is added the user can't "respond" to…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (37+ words) I have a very very short gmail account handle that I've had since the original beta in 2004. On it, I get tons of newsletters, subscriptions, etc. [. ..] Click to expand. .. Same, and it's a nightmare....

9+ mon, 5+ day ago  (40+ words) Ascending and descending node, thank you! Which is why there is a much higher likelihood of debris making it to ground at those latitudes. This is the astronomer that. .. Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail'until Thursday...