Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. Tariffs, component volatility, and Valve's tolerance for losses all lead to uncertainty.

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Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.

Tariffs, component volatility, and Valve's tolerance for losses all lead to uncertainty.

What if the aliens come and we just can’t communicate? Ars chats with particle physicist Daniel Whiteson about his new book Do Aliens Speak Physics?

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What if the aliens come and we just can’t communicate?

Ars chats with particle physicist Daniel Whiteson about his new book Do Aliens Speak Physics?

Valve says it’s still waiting for better chips to power Steam Deck 2 Even a 50 percent performance-per-watt improvement wouldn't be enough, engineer says.

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Valve says it’s still waiting for better chips to power Steam Deck 2

Even a 50 percent performance-per-watt improvement wouldn't be enough, engineer says.

Steam Deck minus the screen: Valve announces new Steam Machine, Controller hardware SteamOS-powered cube for your TV targets early 2026 launch, no pricing details.

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Steam Deck minus the screen: Valve announces new Steam Machine, Controller hardware

SteamOS-powered cube for your TV targets early 2026 launch, no pricing details.

Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases.

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Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases.

Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique.

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Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes

In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique.

Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict Redditor confessed to violating actresses' "moral rights" in landmark ruling.

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Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict

Redditor confessed to violating actresses' "moral rights" in landmark ruling.

ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.

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ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of

Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.

Study finds AI models store memories and logic in different neural regions Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.

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Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.

New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games But author warns that Direct3D 7 "is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability."

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New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games

But author warns that Direct3D 7 "is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability."