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Human versus autonomous car race ends before it begins

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Ars Technica’s top 20 video games of 2024

18h ago

Green sea turtle gets relief from “bubble butt” syndrome thanks to 3D printing

Sat

Exploring an undersea terrain sculpted by glaciers and volcanoes

Sat

12 days of OpenAI: The Ars Technica recap

Fri

Horizon: Zero Dawn gets the graphical remaster a modern classic deserves

Fri

Rocket Report: ULA has a wild idea; Starliner crew will stay in orbit even longer

Fri

OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models

Fri

Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first

Fri

Man who claims he invented bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1 trillion suit

Fri

The next two FIFA Women’s World Cups will only air on Netflix

Fri

New AA-powered AirTag case promises 10-year lifespan

Fri

Google will apparently offer “AI Mode” right on its main search page

Fri

Automakers excoriated by Senators for fighting right-to-repair

Fri

Louisiana bars health dept. from promoting flu, COVID, mpox vaccines: Report

Fri

Google and OpenAI blitz December with so many AI releases, it’s hard to keep up

Fri

VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network

Fri

Why AI language models choke on too much text

Fri

We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time

Thu

Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model

Thu

Home Assistant’s Voice Preview Edition is a little box with big privacy powers

Thu

As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank

Thu

New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality

Thu

Crypto scammers posing as real brands on X are easily hacking YouTubers

Thu

Stalker 2 has been enjoyable jank, but it’s also getting rapidly fixed

Thu

US temporarily bans drones in parts of NJ, may use “deadly force” against aircraft

Thu

Intel patches performance for Core Ultra 200S desktop CPUs, promises more to come

Thu

Here’s what we learned driving Audi’s new Q6 and SQ6 electric SUVs

Thu

The New Glenn rocket’s seven powerful engines may light up as soon as today

Thu

Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index

Thu

A new, uncensored AI video model may spark a new AI hobbyist movement

Thu

Krypto steals the show in Superman teaser

Thu

Amazon faces holiday strike after refusing to bargain with warehouse workers

Thu

Solving renewable energy’s sticky storage problem

Thu

Amazon’s RTO delays exemplify why workers get so mad about mandates

Wed

$2 per megabyte: AT&T mistakenly charged customer $6,223 for 3.1GB of data

Wed

Louisiana resident in critical condition with H5N1 bird flu

Wed

The Backbone One would be an ideal game controller—if the iPhone had more games

Wed

Arm and Qualcomm fight in court over the future of Snapdragon X Elite chips

Wed

Supreme Court to decide if TikTok should be banned or sold

Wed

Call ChatGPT from any phone with OpenAI’s new 1-800 voice service

Wed

Report: US considers banning TP-Link routers over security flaws, ties to China

Wed

Z-Wave Long Range and its mile-long capabilities will arrive next year

Wed

The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales

Wed

EPA lets California set its own stricter emissions standards until 2035

Wed

GM and ChargePoint will deploy hundreds of “Omni Port” chargers in 2025

Wed

Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes

Wed

Who needs the dark web? Drug sales flourish on social media

Wed

Russian space chief says country will fly on space station until 2030

Wed

These squirrels are cold-blooded vole killers

Wed

Report: Elon Musk failed to report movement required by security clearance

Tue

The kids are… maybe alright: Teen drug use hits new lows in ongoing decline

Tue

Nvidia’s new app is causing large frame rate dips in many games

Tue

After decades of talk, Seagate seems ready to actually drop the HAMR hard drives

Tue

Companies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”: Study

Tue

OpenAI’s API users get full access to the new o1 model

Tue

Nvidia partners leak next-gen RTX 50-series GPUs, including a 32GB 5090

Tue

Big loss for ISPs as Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to $15 broadband law

Tue

Facing ban next month, TikTok begs SCOTUS for help

Tue

Here’s the new hybrid Honda Prelude, on sale late 2025

Tue

Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses—the 1st Amendment might stop him

Tue

China orbits first Guowang internet satellites, with thousands more to come

Tue

In IT? Need cash? Cybersecurity whistleblowers are earning big payouts.

Mon

Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matter

Mon

PS Placeable: The adorable mod that turns a PlayStation Portable into a console

Mon

Hackers seek ransom after getting SSNs, banking info from state gov’t portal

Mon

Amazon facing strike threats as Senate report details hidden widespread injuries

Mon

T-Mobile users can try Starlink-enabled phone service for free during beta

Mon

On Trump’s chopping block: EVs, charger funding, California’s emissions

Mon

Researchers home in on headache-causing compounds in red wine

Mon

Buying a TV in 2025? Expect lower prices, more ads, and an OS war.

Mon

Bird flu jumps from birds to human in Louisiana; patient hospitalized

Dec 13

Yearlong supply-chain attack targeting security pros steals 390K credentials

Dec 13

Werner Herzog muses on mysteries of the brain in Theater of Thought

Dec 13

Elon Musk slams SEC as agency threatens charges in Twitter stock probe

Dec 13

Don’t use crypto to cheat on taxes: Bitcoin bro gets 2 years

Dec 13

F1 Arcade trip report: Great sims make for a compelling experience

Dec 13

The US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space

Dec 13

Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws

Dec 13

Americans are living longer—but most of the extra time is spent being sick

Dec 13

Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country

Dec 13

Rocket Report: Chinese national flies drone near Falcon 9, Trouble down under

Dec 13

Are LLMs capable of non-verbal reasoning?

Dec 12

Character.AI steps up teen safety after bots allegedly caused suicide, self-harm

Dec 12

Critical WordPress plugin vulnerability under active exploit threatens thousands

Dec 12

Report: AT&T, Verizon aren’t notifying most victims of Chinese call-records hack

Dec 12

Generating power with a thin, flexible thermoelectric film

Dec 12

Studies pin down exactly when humans and Neanderthals swapped DNA

Dec 12

OpenAI introduces “Santa Mode” to ChatGPT for ho-ho-ho voice chats

Dec 12

The optical disc onslaught continues, with LG quitting Blu-ray players

Dec 12

Google steps into “extended reality” once again with Android XR

Dec 12

Intel Arc B580 review: A $249 RTX 4060 killer, one-and-a-half years later

Dec 12

AI helps ID paint chemistry of Berlin Wall murals

Dec 12

Weight loss drugs may also treat addiction, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease

Dec 12

YouTube TV is hiking prices again after denying “erroneous” report days ago

Dec 12

In an odd bit of propaganda, Belarus claims to have its own Starlink technology

Dec 12

NASA’s boss-to-be proclaims we’re about to enter an “age of experimentation”

Dec 12

Back where it started: “Do Not Track” removed from Firefox after 13 years

Dec 12

Dodge keeps true to its roots with the first electric Charger muscle car

Dec 12

Russia takes unusual route to hack Starlink-connected devices in Ukraine

Dec 11