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Ancient Chinese text reveals earliest know record of a candidate aurora

Where 2022’s news was (mostly) good: Yhe year’s top science stories

Busting a myth: Saturn V rocket wasn’t loud enough to melt concrete

Could getting rid of old cells turn back the clock on aging?

Mastodon—and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers

2022’s US climate disasters, from storms and floods to heat waves and droughts

Bees like to roll little wooden balls as a form of play, study finds

Handbrake video transcoder adds official AV1 codec support in latest release

New York governor signs modified right-to-repair bill at the last minute

Suit accusing YouTube of tracking children is back on after appeal

Don’t call it a refresh: The 6 most adventurous laptop designs of 2022

Ars Technica’s best video games of 2022

Startup Make Sunsets promises to disrupt… the stratosphere?

iOS 16 exploit lets you set the system font to Comic Sans (and other things)

Is that shrunken head really human? Combining imaging methods yields clues

Amazon begins drone deliveries in California and Texas

Top US launch companies of 2022—The Ars Technica power ranking

Comcast debacles dominate Ars Technica’s biggest ISP horror stories of 2022

Some day soon we might be making popcorn with infrared poppers

Old dog, new trick: Microsoft tests a tabbed UI for Notepad.exe in Windows 11

Twitter sells blue checks, Tumblr allows nudes: 2022’s biggest Big-Tech U-turns

Let it snow: Scientists make metallic snowflakes out of nanoparticles

Apple’s business under growing threat from China’s Covid wave

Experts debate the risks of made-to-order DNA

J. Robert Oppenheimer cleared of “black mark” against his name after 68 years

Danish physicists give the gift of world’s smallest Christmas record—in stereo

The 20 most-read stories on Ars Technica in 2022

Meta to pay $725 million to settle Cambridge Analytica lawsuit

Meta and Alphabet lose dominance over US digital ads market

Google vs. Amazon: The smart display showdown

TikTok cops to running “covert surveillance campaign” on Western journalists

Backup Soyuz can’t get to ISS before late February

Driver updates will fix abnormally high power use for AMD’s new RX 7900 GPUs

Compromised dispatch system helped move taxis to front of the line

Here’s why electric vehicles need EV-specific tires

Okta says source code for Workforce Identity Cloud service was copied

Enigmatic canal-filled ruins may have been above water when built

Microsoft sued by Call of Duty gamers opposing Activision merger

With Apple bowing out, YouTube is close to scoring NFL Sunday Ticket

Eufy publicly acknowledges some parts of its “No clouds” controversy

Elon Musk blames Twitter cost cuts on “$3 billion negative cash flow”

Apple’s self-service repairs expand to desktops like iMac, Mac Studio

Lenovo announces cheaper Mini LED monitors with 140 W power delivery

Framework, Noctua, and other brands add official 3D models to Printables