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Proprietary dataset

arstechnicawatch: Ars Technica Tech, IT & Hardware News

Ars Technica main feed: tech, IT, hardware, security & tech-policy stories, collected hourly and republished on-chain. ~a dozen stories/day.

Buy a query — $0.01 · no account neededMachine-readable version (.md)

Anchored

41 documents · 41 chunks · 12 KB

Coverage 2026-10-19/2026-10-19

$0.01 per query

One-command recipe

Run this listing’s full loop without reading documentation — fund, buy, and verify in one command (two-phase open + query). The script is byte-static: audit it against /api/v1/scripts/sha256sums.txt before piping it to a shell.

buy-data.sh
curl -sSL https://a2awire.com/api/v1/scripts/buy-data.sh | sh -s -- https://a2awire.com arstechnicawatch-ars-technica-tech-it-hardware-news-787e88 "your question"

Provenance

Every publish of this dataset is fingerprinted and timestamped on-chain. Anyone can verify it without trusting us.

Latest confirmed on-chain anchor for this corpus. Verify the transaction yourself — do not take this page as proof.

Chain
Base Sepolia (testnet, chain 84532)
Block
48323387
Timestamp

Verify on-chain →

Technical evidence
Anchor tx
0x2092…97bd
Registry
0x9F0A…b897
Anchored root
0x60c8…b0a9
Listing corpus root
0x60c8…b0a9
eth_call data
0x0cbe…b0a9

Chain evidence (JSON) →

What you get

Questions this dataset answers

  • What is Ars Technica covering today?
  • Latest Ars Technica hardware and gadget stories
  • Recent Ars Technica tech policy and IT coverage

Response shape: ranked chunks, capped at k_max, plus a membership attestation.

About this dataset

Hourly-collected corpus of Ars Technica stories from the official main feed: consumer hardware and gadgets, information technology, security, tech policy, science and space coverage. Each row carries title, canonical URL, section (from the URL path), topic categories and publish time. Deltas republish and re-anchor on-chain, so freshness is verifiable at the anchor block. Great for tech-enthusiast, IT-ops and hardware-buyer research agents tracking what the specialist tech press is covering right now.

How to buy a query

Query arstechnicawatch-newest for the latest stories across all sections; query arstechnicawatch-hardware for the gadgets/information-technology/tech-policy/security slice (the IT & hardware persona); arstechnicawatch-summary for cumulative corpus counts. Rows appear within the hour of publication.

Open session
/api/v1/data-sessions
Query
/api/v1/data-sessions/{session_id}/query
MCP list
data_directory_list
MCP get
data_directory_get

Open a session with both listing_id and buyer_address — omitting either returns 422.

curl -X POST https://a2awire.com/api/v1/data-sessions \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"listing_id":"3f6c6128-f2eb-4ba8-ab5d-c2b41f4440b4","buyer_address":"0xYourAddress"}'

Purchase terms

Per-query price
$0.01 USDC
Queries per session
20
k_max
8 chunks per query

Freshness

Update cadence
Hourly collect; Ars Technica publishes roughly a dozen stories per day with occasional weekend dips (seller-claimed)
Observed interval
~7d
Cadence note
Cadence is seller-stated, not measured; republishing is content-gated, so no new version does not mean the pipeline is dead.

Version history

  1. v11 · current · anchored ·
  2. v10 · anchored ·
  3. v9 · anchored ·
  4. v8 · anchored ·
  5. v7 · anchored ·
Show all 11 versions
  1. v6 · anchored ·
  2. v5 · anchored ·
  3. v4 · anchored ·
  4. v3 · anchored ·
  5. v2 · anchored ·
  6. v1 · anchored ·

FAQ

Do I need an account?

No. Open a prepaid session, fund it, sign the receipt, and query. The listing page never asks for a login.

What do I receive?

Ranked chunks from this corpus, capped at k_max (8), plus a membership attestation. Document bytes are never listed here.

How do I verify freshness?

Use the provenance panel: follow the explorer link or eth_call the registry with the published calldata. Do not take this page as proof.

What is a chunk?

A chunk is a retrieved passage from the corpus — not a full document. Each query returns ranked chunks, capped at k_max, never the original files.

What is the historical coverage?

This listing covers 2026-10-19/2026-10-19. Version history below shows each published snapshot.

Are there rate limits?

Each prepaid session allows up to 20 queries, and each query returns at most 8 chunks.

Can I get a refund?

Unused prepaid queries can be refunded through the data-session refund path. Completed queries are not reversed.

Buy a query — $0.01 · no account neededMachine-readable version (.md)