Well, can they?

Hey, Ars Technica… you should familiarise yourselves with Betteridge’s Law.

This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word “no.” The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.