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During a brief hearing on Wednesday morning, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation spent only a few minutes “marking up” new legislation...
New but Familiar The Neo won’t be for everyone, but Apple has managed to preserve a premium feel. !Apple MacBook Neohttps://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uplo...
Tech Companies Build Their Own Power Supplies To avoid political backlash and long waits—up to four years—for grid connections, tech companies are already cons...
Overview Most of Apple’s announcements this week have been fairly straightforward internal updates to existing products, give or take some big architectural ch...
Overview Apple’s announcements this week have largely been straightforward internal updates to existing products, with a few notable architectural changes to i...
NASA has fixed the problem that forced the removal of the rocket for the Artemis II mission from its launch pad last month, but it will be a couple of weeks bef...
Acquisition Overview In a statement, Accenture CEO and chair Julie Sweet said: > “By acquiring Ookla, we will help our clients across business and government s...
Background Ziff Davis bought Ookla in 2014 for $15 million, according to a Reuters reporthttps://www.reuters.com/business/ziff-davis-sell-connectivity-division...
'EVs Around $15,000 🌎🦪⚡️🚗 > There’s a lot of good Hyundai and Kia EVs in this price bracket, plus the Bolt and i3. Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images
Apple’s New M5 Family: More Chiplets, Three CPU Core Types Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family. !Apple M5 chip arch...
Overview Apple is refreshing most of its laptop lineup. The high‑end MacBook Pros receive M5 Pro and M5 Max chip updates, and the MacBook Air is being upgraded...
markdown Apple Introduces New MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips New laptops come with more storage but also higher starting prices. !Apple MacBook Pro w...
Starting smaller with FLIP This is not the first time the two companies have worked together. Last August, Interlune announced that it would fly a multispectra...
Lancet editorial on RFK Jr.’s tenure at HHS The Lancet’s editorial argues that, as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Ken...
Experiment Overview !https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Recall-at-precision-thresholds-640x451.png Recall at various precision thresholds....
Background South Korea’s National Tax Service NTS inadvertently posted the password to a seized crypto wallet in a press release, allowing thieves to quickly s...
Background South Korea’s National Tax Service NTS inadvertently leaked the password to a seized cryptocurrency wallet in a press release, resulting in the loss...
The petition cited research suggesting that in the US airline industry, some “mergers increased fares not only on overlap routes but also on non-overlap routes....
Specifications - Apple M4 chip in the iPad Air is a cut‑down version compared to the M4 in Macs or the M4 iPad Pro. - CPU: 8 cores 3 high‑performance, 5 effici...
Overview Apple’s biggest iPhone announcements usually happen in September, but for the second year in a row the company is also introducing a new iPhone in Mar...
markdown ok, I found a trail—now what? > Despite the Toyota platform, there’s plenty of Subaru DNA in this one. !A blue Subaru Trailseeker drives past the camer...
A highly regarded administrator A former Republican House member from Oklahoma, Bridenstine served a generally well‑regarded term as NASA administrator from Ap...
!https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-MWC-Client-Press-Deck-25-2.jpeg AMD Ryzen AI 400 Desktop CPUs Overview AMD’s initial lineup include...
!https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-MWC-Client-Press-Deck-25-2.jpeg AMD’s initial lineup includes a total of six chips, split between v...
'Time to Hunker Down Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature and outlast storms, floods, and predators.
markdown Skip to content Theoretical Use Cases > The Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military. !Ant...
An AI assist? The author of the MMWR report, county health official Katherine Houser, noted that the beer‑tent workers were hesitant to give details because th...
Background Google and other browser makers require that all TLS certificates be published in public transparency logs, which are append‑only distributed ledger...
Background Google and other browser makers require that all TLS certificates be published in public transparency logs, which are append‑only distributed ledger...
'Behind the MIRV > “There were assumptions that were made in the strategy that obviously didn’t come to fruition.”
A successful Paramount‑WBD merger would be the largest streaming merger ever and would lead to further consolidation in the industryhttps://arstechnica.com/gadg...
Despite the headline, this isn’t really a story about superconductivity—at least not the superconductivity that people care about, the stuff that doesn’t requir...
The U.S. military mistakenly shot down a Customs and Border Protection CBP drone near the Mexican border using a laser‑based anti‑drone system. CBP employs dron...
An AI Apocalypse Director Gore Verbinski and screenwriter Matthew Robinson on the making of this darkly satirical sci‑fi film. Credit: Briarcliff Entertainment...
Can’t win if you don’t play Lawyers tell Ars the state has a tough road ahead, even as Valve is uniquely vulnerable. > Opening a valuable skin like this in a l...
Toyota’s Small Electric SUV Is Much‑Revised, Much More Efficient, and Much Better !A Toyota bZ, head‑on in an alleyhttps://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploa...
Background On Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery’s WBD board deemed Paramount’s revamped offer “superior,” giving Netflix four business days to match it. On the...
Background The staff reduction at Block comes as anxiety rises about AI leading to job losses across vast parts of the economy. Investors and economists are gr...
Overview Given the right permissions and with the proper plugins, Perplexity’s new “Computer” could create, modify, or delete a user’s files and otherwise perf...
Background We’re all familiar with the high‑pitched squeak of basketball shoes on a court or tires squealing on pavement. Recent experiments have shown that th...
With Nano Banana 2, Google promises consistency for up to five characters at a time and accurate rendering of as many as 14 different objects per workflow. Rich...
Recall Overview Last year, Ford set a new industry record by issuing 152 safety recalls—almost twice the previous high set by General Motors in 2014. More than...
!https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/csgogun-1.jpeg Opening a valuable skin like this in a loot box is akin to winning a lottery, New York al...
markdown MTO is now MTN !Rendering of Rocket Lab's design for the Mars Telecommunications Networkhttps://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/mars-tel...
Interior and Technology In reality, much of life with the Uncharted reminded me of Toyota. Subaru may have programmed the AWD system’s power delivery or tuned...
Capability on the Ground Officials expect the investigation into a booster anomaly on ULA’s Vulcan rocket to last multiple months. > Four solid rocket boosters...
Hostility Is Not Proof of Theft Even twisting an ex‑employee’s text to favor xAI’s reading fails to sway the judge. Elon Musk appears to be grasping at straws...
There used to be countless companies making flagship Android phones, but a combination of factors has narrowed the field over time. Today, Samsung is the undisp...
