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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...

Dan Simmons, the author of more than three dozen books, including the famed Hyperion Cantos, has died from a stroke. He was 77https://www.dignitymemorial.com/ob...

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...

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded out of Africa, resulting in a substan...

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...