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German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket

Sun

Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests

Sun

Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation

Sat

After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury

Fri

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

Fri

Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths

Fri

Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC

Fri

Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus

Fri

“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs

Fri

Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

Fri

Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation

Fri

Valve secretly leaked a Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to dodge the ESRB

Fri

Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed

Fri

Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight

Fri

Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo

Fri

Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations

Fri

Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO

Fri

Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them

Thu

Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming

Thu

150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data

Thu

US senator calls on the NSA to give guidance for use of VPNs

Thu

NJ urges SCOTUS to rule that Kalshi sports bets are gambling, not "swaps"

Thu

VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

Thu

Just like a fruit fly, a new algorithm never forgets old scents

Thu

Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

Thu

Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn

Thu

Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners

Thu

Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion

Thu

Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants

Wed

I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale

Wed

FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking

Wed

Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design

Wed

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks

Wed

Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing

Wed

US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case

Wed

Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84

Wed

The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones

Wed

Is Russia's rival to Starlink failing? Here's what we know.

Wed

BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all

Wed

Here's our first look—and drive—of the 2027 Range Rover Electric

Tue

Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

Tue

CDC reported then deleted two measles deaths that were questioned by RFK Jr.

Tue

New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official

Tue

FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions

Tue

This is what a supercar was like a century ago

Tue

It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed really well

Tue

Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program

Tue

Private group wants to launch "cheapest possible" mission to Alpha Centauri

Tue

The Bentley Supersports: A stripped-out engineer's indulgence

Mon

Trump admin shelves Cyclospora research despite record-breaking outbreak

Mon

Get in on the Ars community that doesn’t fit beneath an article

Mon

Review: Coyote vs. Acme is an unabashed love letter to Looney Tunes

Mon

Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed"

Mon

“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Mon

Raindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds

Mon

Think twice before installing this device promising free movies

Mon

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

Mon

Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government

Mon

ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules

Mon

NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

Mon

Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.

Mon

A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

Sun

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

Sun

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

Aug 30

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

Aug 29

Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name

Aug 28

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

Aug 28

"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

Aug 28

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Aug 28

Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced

Aug 28

Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

Aug 28

Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

Aug 28

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Aug 28

Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

Aug 28

Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut

Aug 28

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Aug 27

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

Aug 27

GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

Aug 27

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Aug 27

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Aug 27

The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

Aug 27

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

Aug 27

Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?

Aug 27

Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them

Aug 27

Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago

Aug 27

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

Aug 27

How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

Aug 27

How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face

Aug 27

An EV that sounds like a 6.75 L V8: A ride in the Bentley Torcal

Aug 27

RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances

Aug 26

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

Aug 26

New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

Aug 26

Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"

Aug 26

Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions

Aug 26

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

Aug 26

The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class

Aug 26

Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future

Aug 26

Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads

Aug 26

Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time

Aug 26