Was, they sold it on to Lenovo in 2014.

[ https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-comp... ]

ok, did not know that, every day is a school day!

One of the more fun related items...

You are not eligible for an ETA if you are a British citizen.

On first glance, that sounds fairly common sense, as if you're a citizen, why would you need/want one? But there's a wrinkle...

It means that British citizens with dual (or more) nationality must have a UK passport, and must travel into the UK using it, and cannot use their other-nationality passport(s) like they used to be able to do.

Which means paying for a British passport if you didn't have one before.

(There is an alternative, but it's silly money, £589 vs £95 for an adult passport).

And IIRC, the whole thing is because of the new electronic border system that's being introduced or something like that.

I had the same thought, and checked a dozen or so of them, they're all multiple dozens of balls.

The submitter's description does make reference to this a bit, the Amazon product description quantity for these items is "1"...

And it gets more complicated for the ones that are 2 dozen, plus 1 dozen 'free'...

Just for completeness, the followup:

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio...

And the original article has now been replaced with a brief paragraph on the retraction.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-reje...