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Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada

15h ago

The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like

16h ago

Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield

16h ago

Taco Bell iceberg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states

16h ago

Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy

18h ago

Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?

18h ago

Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November

18h ago

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

19h ago

Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!

19h ago

The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

23h ago

FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals

Fri

2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2

Fri

Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?

Fri

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start

Fri

Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing

Thu

HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

Thu

T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines

Thu

It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

Thu

xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.

Thu

Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory

Thu

Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say

Thu

2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric

Thu

Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

Thu

Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

Thu

We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere

Thu

OnePlus ends phone releases in US and Europe, further reducing smartphone choice

Thu

Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.

Thu

Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

Thu

Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds

Thu

Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback

Thu

Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there

Wed

Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon

Wed

Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"

Wed

Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation

Wed

Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

Wed

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

Wed

FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs

Wed

In memoriam: 7 of our favorite Sam Neill films

Wed

Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn

Wed

OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?

Wed

A most improbable astronaut just went to space

Wed

How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

Wed

Sotheby's big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending science

Wed

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

Tue

Trump admin puts Americans in Congo on "do-not-board" list, barring return

Tue

Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans

Tue

US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time

Tue

These painted e-tattoos could be the future of wearable biosensors

Tue

Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI

Tue

New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry

Tue

Taco Bell eyed in explosive diarrheal outbreak; leafy greens suspected

Tue

Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol

Tue

SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week

Tue

US continues to shun Ebola-infected citizens; second American sent to Germany

Mon

The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router

Mon

Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor

Mon

California creates $3,500 rebate for new electric vehicle buyers

Mon

Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets

Mon

Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"

Mon

States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin

Mon

Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer

Mon

Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows

Mon

Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution

Mon

Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"

Mon

A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.

Mon

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

Mon

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

Mon

The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?

Sun

A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death

Sat

Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement

Sat

Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor

Fri

Increased drone surveillance of illegal July 4th fireworks led to $100K fine

Fri

China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it

Fri

Check out the first images of Quest shipwreck

Fri

Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers

Fri

Study shows how toxic RFK Jr.’s change to measles vaccine is for US toddlers

Fri

Valve's new Steam Machine verification system is silent on these Steam Deck-busters

Fri

Firmware update bricks Hue Bridge Pro devices; Philips gives free replacements

Fri

An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet

Fri

Disable auto-play and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta

Fri

NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations

Fri

VW Group and unions disagree on plan to streamline the automaker

Fri

Wally Funk, last of Mercury 13 and oldest woman in space, dies at 87

Fri

Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe?

Jul 10

Rocket Report: "Panic" over Transporter availability; Isar to launch from Canada

Jul 10

Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning

Jul 10

Flores Hobbits' eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past

Jul 9

Michigan's explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite jumps to over 1,200 cases

Jul 9

OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you

Jul 9

Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

Jul 9

Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA

Jul 9

Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs

Jul 9

Judge doesn't like Elon Musk settlement with SEC, but says court can't block it

Jul 9

OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

Jul 9

Surprised doctors find 10-inch worm in man's groin during elective surgery

Jul 9

Conspiracies and regrets abound in Dune: Part Three trailer

Jul 9

Ruf debuts new flat-eight engine at Goodwood

Jul 9

Free Waymo rides in California? You can thank a regulatory quirk.

Jul 9

The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn't actually a launch company

Jul 9

Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That's finally changing.

Jul 9