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What’s happening If you own an older Kindle e‑reader—including models with physical keyboards or page‑turn buttons—you’ve received a notice that, starting May...
This review is scheduled to be complete next year and could freeze out full‑size pickups designed without consideration for European pedestrian safety. Part of...
This review is scheduled to be completed next year and could freeze out full‑size pickups designed without regard for European pedestrian‑safety standards. Part...
NASA’s Artemis II mission has yet to return to Earth—it will splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday evening—but the agency is alr...
Overview Anthropic has launched a new cybersecurity AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, for a select group of customers, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. T...
The Russian military is once again hacking home and small office routers in widespread operations that send unwitting users to sites that harvest passwords and...
Overview Valve is bringing Steam Link, its local‑network game‑streaming app, to Apple’s Vision Pro mixed‑reality headset, allowing Vision Pro users to play tra...
markdown US PIRG Report The MacBook Neo is a step in the right direction, though. Credit: Apple Apple earned the lowest grades in a report on laptop and smartph...
'New profile of Sam Altman shines a light on a whole industry Credit: Getty Images
Background The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit had ruled that Internet service provider Grande Communications was liable for contributory copyright...
Background Looking up information on Google today means confronting AI Overviews, the Gemini‑powered search robot that appears at the top of the results page....
Background Looking up information on Google today means confronting AI Overviews, the Gemini‑powered search robot that appears at the top of the results page....
> “Unfortunately there’s a nostalgic cost: your old original 386 DX33 system from early 1991 won’t be able to boot modern Linux kernels anymore,” Molnar wroteht...
During the Artemis II flyby, the spacecraft approached within 4,067 mi 6,545 km of the Moon’s surface, capturing a series of high‑resolution photographs that sh...
Overview Rivian is preparing to deliver the first of its new R2 SUVs. After the success of the R1S and R1T, the startup is moving into more mainstream market s...
Membership criteria differences The membership criteria are also dramatically different between the current charter and today’s renewal. Currently, ACIP member...
Robotic machine learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1https://generalistai.com/blog/apr-02-2026-GEN-1, a new physical AI system that “crosses into prod...
Predictable Court Rules U.S. Preempts States from Applying Gambling Laws to Prediction Markets !Kalshi advertisement at a bus stop in Washington, DC March 19,...
markdown Round 2 Congress rejected huge cuts to science in 2026, but Trump is trying again. !Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget OMB...
Discussion on Lunar Landers and Upcoming Milestones Ars: I want to ask now about what milestones we should be looking for this year. I think with Starship it w...
LG’s last gasp In 2020, LG’s mobile division was searching for a way to stand out. The company tried hand gestures, rotating screens, phone cases with secondar...
Price War and Used EV Market The deals also helped feed an aggressive price war led by market leader Tesla as it sought to defend its market share. That helped...
'markdown He Has a Process > Director Christopher Nolan’s breakout film explores themes of the nature of memory and personal identity. Credit: Newmarket
Another series of cards described certain immigration offenses and related federal charges: misuse of a passport, fraud or misuse of a visa, and fleeing from a...
During Saturday’s news conference, the chair of the Mission Management Team, NASA engineer John Honeycutt, was asked about the public fascination with Orion’s t...
Tech Companies' Positions > “IBM supports right-to-repair policies that empower consumers while protecting cybersecurity, intellectual property, and critical i...
Background After the successful launch of the Artemis II missionhttps://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/four-astronauts-depart-for-the-moon-with-a-fiery-send-off...
Findings Madden was able to conclusively identify 565 Native American dice from 45 different sites and designate an additional 94 artifacts as “probable” dice....
Because that engine firing was so successful, NASA waved off the opportunity to perform a “corrective” burn on Friday. During their daily briefing with reporter...
> “For now, five banks are expected to work on the SpaceX initial public offering—Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley....
“Lowering the threshold for scrutiny” Overall, across 1,372 participants and over 9,500 individual trials, the researchers found subjects were willing to accep...
Executive Orders and AI Data Center Priorities Donald Trump declared, in a series of executive orders last year, that rapid construction of AI data centers was...
For more than a month, security practitioners have been warning about the perils of using OpenClaw, the viral AI agentic tool that has taken the development com...
Per Italian law, price increases that Netflix has issued or will issue beyond April 2025 are legal. At that time, Netflix adjusted its terms to state that contr...
Toyota’s EV sales surge Toyota emerges as another winner in EV sales: its bZ crossoverhttps://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/02/and-the-award-for-the-most-improved-...
Acquisition Overview One person close to OpenAI dismissed the idea that the deal was a distraction for a company competing against Google and Anthropic. “Resea...
The most significant tests involved Orion’s propulsion system, during which Pilot Victor Glover flew the vehicle through a variety of maneuvers primarily using...
“Enormous Volumes of Sensitive Info” Allegations - Companies involved: Google, Meta, and Perplexity - Claim: The three firms are accused of sharing millions of...
Overview OpenAI might be pulling backhttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/openai-plans-to-shut-down-sora-just-15-months-after-its-launch/ on video generation, bu...
!Image of a black fossil that appears to be shaped like a bent sausage with tentacles at one end and a stalk attaching it to the ocean floor; a cartoon interpre...
Renewables dominate 2025's newly installed generating capacity =================================================================== This is all happening at a ti...
Google’s Gemini AI models have improved dramatically over the past year, but they have been usable only under Google’s terms. The company’s Gemma open‑weight mo...
Record Announcement Ford announced that its GT Mk IV, an evolution of the mid‑engined supercar introduced in 2016, has set the fastest lap ever recorded by a p...
Background Anthropic’s recent effort to remove the leaked Claude Code client source code from GitHub unintentionally resulted in the takedown of many legitimat...
This morning, Tesla published its production and delivery results for the first three months of 2026. For the first time in a whilehttps://arstechnica.com/cars/...
Background Apple invested $1.5 billion in Globalstar in 2024, taking a 20 percent stake. As part of the agreement, Globalstar agreed to reserve 85 percent of i...
Why wait? When your computer isn’t doing anything else, Nvidia thinks it might as well compile some shaders for your games. PC gamers who are tired of waiting...
Leak Overview Yesterday’s surprise leak of the source code for Anthropic’s Claude Codehttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/entire-claude-code-cli-source-code-lea...
