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The West experienced a very warm Decemberhttps://theconversation.com/the-western-us-is-in-a-snow-drought-and-storms-have-been-making-it-worse-272549 at all but...

Overview The Seattle‑based company BRINC has introduced a new police drone that integrates Starlink connectivity, carries Narcan, and can chase vehicles at spe...

Reddit’s New Human Verification Policy Reddit will require accounts that exhibit “automated or otherwise fishy behavior” to verify that a human runs them, Redd...

At the end of a long day on Tuesday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman looked down at a table littered with microphones and jokingly referred to the space agenc...

Verdict On Wednesday, a Los Angeles jury ordered Meta and YouTube to pay $3 million in damages to a young woman who successfully argued that the companies’ soc...

Nintendo Switch 2 Physical Game Pricing Change The downloadable versions of Nintendo’s first‑party Switch games have always cost the same amount to buy, despit...

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossi...

Background For as long as we’ve known that soil bacteria manufacture molecular weapons to fight each other, we’ve been swiping their battle plans. In clinics a...

Background PCAST, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, is generally a low‑profile group that only draws attention when something goes...

Google is dramatically shortening its deadline readiness for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public‑key cryptograp...

Apple’s new age checks in the UK After upgrading to iOS 26.4, iPhone owners in the United Kingdom are presented with several options to prove their age, includ...

That said, Reuters’ source also suggested that Disney and OpenAI were still discussing whether there was another way the companies could partner with or invest...

Earlier this month Honda decided to cancel a trio of electric vehicles it was planning to build in the US. Those cancellations are having a ripple effect, and t...

Performance It is, as you might imagine, rather rapid. From a standstill to 60 mph, it takes just 3.3 seconds—only a tenth longer than the V10‑powered Audi R8h...

Introduction Bourbon is a multi‑billion‑dollar market, but the American barrel‑aged whiskey also generates a large amount of wasted grain at distilleries. Chem...

Drama HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon released a statement to the media pointing to Malone’s retraction and adding, “Unless officially announced by us, any asser...

A Walmart ads vehicle This week’s announcement shows Walmart further integrating Vizio and looking to more deeply leverage Vizio OS’s ads and tracking capabili...

Overview Mozilla developer Peter Wilson announced cq, described as “Stack Overflow for agents,” on the Mozilla.ai bloghttps://blog.mozilla.ai/cq-stack-overflow...

Background OpenAI is preparing to shut down Sora, the video generation app that drew widespread attention when it launched in late 2024https://arstechnica.com/...

Background OpenAI is preparing to shut down Sora, the video generation app that drew widespread attention when it launched in late 2024https://arstechnica.com/...

Passing the Torch Public interest in government‑tech abuses is peaking. EFF’s new leader plans to build on that. On the left, departing director of the Electro...

Update Overview Apple released the 26.4 updates for all its major platforms today—iOS, iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and HomePod. The primary r...

!https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/moon-base1.webp NASA rendering of a Moon base to be built over the next decade. Lunar Base Phases Garcia...

Background Android has been creeping into cars for more than a decade, first with the phone‑based Android Auto and later with the built‑in Android Automotive O...

One benefit of most of Apple’s hardware and software is that it’s relatively privacy‑focusedhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/all-the-ways-apple-tv-boxes-...

Background Elon Musk must defend himself against a lawsuit alleging that he unlawfully seized too much power as the leader of the Department of Government Effi...

Safety Measures Anthropic says it has safeguards in place to prevent common risks like prompt injection, and it will limit access to certain “off limits” apps...

CanisterWorm and Kamikaze In an email, Aikido researcher Charlie Eriksen said the canister was taken down Sunday night and is no longer available. > “It wasn’t...

Nomination overview President Trump’s pick for surgeon general, Casey Means, is in jeopardy. At least four Republican senators have voiced misgivings about her...

Background Last week, Nvidia’s public reveal of DLSS 5—and its “generative AI” enhanced glow‑ups of gaming scenes—drew widespread condemnation from the gaming...

Ignition Interlock Devices after DUI Convictions Many states require drivers with DUI convictions to install ignition interlock devices that measure alcohol le...

Overview Lower‑refresh‑rate screens generally consume less battery power than equally specced faster ones, and LG claims its “Oxide 1 Hz” screens provide 48 %...

Deal Summary As part of the deal, TotalEnergies is also renouncing any further attempt to develop offshore wind in the US. Context and Criticism The rhetoric t...

The 5th Circuit said the FTC’s deceptive advertising claims are “traditional actions at law and equity and thus involve private rights that demand adjudication...

WWDC 2026 Announcement Apple announced todayhttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-returns-the-week-of-june-8/ that it w...

Problem with Touchscreens and Long Fingernails Touchscreen technology is convenient, but capacitive screens do not register a touch from long fingernails becau...

They might be better than gas‑powered cars in most conceivable ways, but electric‑vehicle EV sales are having an undeniably hard time right now. The cause is no...

In response to the scandal, the school temporarily shut down. Soon after, both its head, Matt Micciche, and the school board’s president, Angela Ang‑Alhadeff, r...

Skip to content who wants to live forever? Sure, it’s cheesy in many respects, but its central mythology still resonates even decades later. Credit: 20th Centur...

how low can we go Policymakers debate if we even need deep ocean mining and if we can do it safely. More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean...

Skip to content All your base are belong to… asteroids? This week’s result is just the latest in a growing collection of discoveries. Credit: JAXA / JAMSTEC On...

Skip to content going nuclear “Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do.” Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy ga...

Skip to content going nuclear “Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do.” Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy ga...

On Friday, a jury in California determined that Elon Musk had misled investorshttps://www.courthousenews.com/san-francisco-jury-finds-elon-musk-defrauded-twitte...

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if it bec...

Those statements suggested the Space Force was likely to transfer the GPS slated to fly on the next Vulcan rocket to a different launch vehicle. That’s exactly...

AI skeptics may also be cheered to hear that the company is pumping the brakes on Copilot, which has made its way into everything from the keyboardhttps://arste...

Shy Girl, a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was one of those buzzy books that leapt from self-published prominence into full-on trade publication. Until yesterday,...