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Robinhood ordered to pay $70m penalty to US regulator

Enlarge A Wall Street regulator has ordered the retail trading platform Robinhood to pay more than $70m in penalties for causing what it described as “widespread and significant” harm to its customers. The…

Starlink’s “next-generation” user terminal will cost a lot less, Musk says

Enlarge SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his company's Starlink division is trying to cut the price of its user terminal from $500 to as low as $250. Starlink has been charging $99 a month…

Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords

Enlarge (credit: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Google has given the boot to nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company's Play marketplace after researchers said these apps used…

Thinking about selling your Echo Dot—or any IoT device? Read this first

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Like most Internet-of-things (IoT) devices these days, Amazon’s Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a factory reset so, as the corporate behemoth says, users can “remove any...…

Old school: I work in DOS for an entire day

(credit: Sean Gallagher) Update, July 5, 2021: It's the July 4 holiday weekend in the US, which means Ars staff gets a well-deserved holiday to catch up on this summer's Steam sale (or…

Wimbledon: The tech behind the world’s top tennis tournament

The first of Wimbledon's tech bunkers, operated by IBM. This is the data ingestion room. For more data on the IBM tech bunker, read our story from a couple of years ago. [credit:…

Up to 1,500 businesses infected in one of the worst ransomware attacks ever

Enlarge (credit: Suebsiri Srithanyarat / EyeEm / Getty Images) As many as 1,500 businesses around the world have been infected by highly destructive malware that first struck software maker Kaseya. In one of…

The rumor is true: Rimac is taking over Bugatti with Porsche’s help

Enlarge / The Bugatti Chiron will be joined by new electrified models. (credit: Bugatti) For almost a year, a rumor has been circulating that Volkswagen Group plans to offload Bugatti to Croatian electric…

Microsoft’s emergency patch fails to fix critical “PrintNightmare” vulnerability

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An emergency patch Microsoft issued on Tuesday fails to fully fix a critical security vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that allows attackers to take control of infected…

Why the password isn’t dead quite yet

Not exactly a 25-character, randomized string of numbers, letters, cases, and symbols. (credit: Dan Goodin) There are certain sci-fi promises the future is supposed to hold: jetpacks, flying cars, a Mars colony. But…