A long-running technology news publication with careful, technical reporting on computing, science, policy and security — deeper than most tech headlines and clear about what is known versus claimed.
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1998
Founded by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes.
2001
Paid subscription service introduced.
May 2008
Sold to Condé Nast Digital and added to the Wired Digital group.
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Background from Wikipedia, checked October 5, 2026.
Ars Technica report on a developer using Claude Opus to build free, open-source alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud apps, which the article describes as ambitious and far from finished.
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Claroc security research on apps made with Grok's Build mode. The researchers report that publishing defaulted to anyone-with-the-link access, that most of 37,571 reachable app addresses opened without sign-in, and that open apps held internal data from dozens of organizations. Findings are the researchers' own.
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