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If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, …

Researchers have discovered malicious code circulating in the wild that hijacks the earliest stage boot process of Linu…

The leaves have turned, the turkey has been eaten, the parades are over, and the football has been watched—the only thi…

Today’s young adults grew up in a time when their childhoods were documented with smartphone cameras instead of dedicat…

"Am I the first person to discover this?" is a tricky question when it comes to classic Macs, some of the mos…

Welcome to Edition 7.21 of the Rocket Report! We're publishing the Rocket Report a little early this week due to th…

If Margaritaville were a real place, it should definitely keep a few dermatologists on hand. In a case of an oft-overl…

Paleontologists have long puzzled over how the dinosaurs—originally relatively small and of minor importance to the bro…

Over the past decade, a new class of infections has threatened Windows users. By infecting the firmware that runs immed…

Like a lot of children of the '80s, my early gaming nostalgia has a huge hole where the Atari 7800 might have lived…

When you compare SpaceX to the world's other space enterprises, it's probably easier to list the things SpaceX …

One of the fastest monopoly trials on record wound down Monday, as US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema heard closin…

Neutrinos are some of nature’s most elusive particles . One hundred trillion fly through your body every second, but ea…

It should have been a routine mission to ferry about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the International Space …

In the wee hours of December 26, 2004, a massive 9.2 earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, generating an equally mas…

Beliefs are convictions of reality that we accept as true. They provide us with the basic mental scaffolding to underst…

Emboldened by Donald Trump's election win, Republicans are seeking big changes to a $42.45 billion broadband deploy…

On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in the AI startup by $4 billion, bringing its …

Physicists including Robert H. Dickle and Fred Hoyle have argued that we are living in a universe that is perfectly fin…

The duck-billed dinosaur Parasaurolophus is distinctive for its prominent crest, which some scientists have suggested …

A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for punishing their son who us…

An ad company’s foray into TV operating systems (OSes) illustrates a significant shift for TV hardware toward products …

We're nearing the end of the year, and there are typically a flood of announcements regarding quantum computers aro…

" Updating our site reputation abuse policy " is how Google, in almost wondrously opaque fashion, announced y…

Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles" beca…

Windows 10's free, guaranteed security updates stop in October 2025 , less than a year from now. Windows 10 users w…

Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating the physical world using scans collected from …

The world is full of feel-bad news. Here’s something to feel good about: Automatic emergency braking is one of the grea…

The Federal Communications Commission's plan to investigate and potentially regulate data caps is all but dead now,…

Scientists could win back trust lost during the COVID-19 pandemic if they just showed a little intellectual humility, a…

After Ars spent Half-Life 2 's 20th anniversary week looking back at the game's history and impact , Valve m…

Few people are fond of earwigs, with their menacing abdominal pincers—whether they’re skittering across your floor, get…

As SpaceX made its final preparations for the sixth launch of its Starship rocket, the company's chief operating of…

Last year we reported on preliminary research suggesting that ancient Egyptians may have used hallucinogens in their r…

The second season of   Silo , Apple TV's dystopian sc-fi drama, is off to a powerful start with yesterday's pr…

It's  Half-Life 2  week at Ars Technica! This Saturday, November 16, is the 20th anniversary of the release of  Hal…

SpaceX's Starlink Internet satellites are responsible for more and more public reports of unexplained anomalous phe…

I've never particularly loved Amazon, either as a retail behemoth or as a hardware and software company, but despit…

Like Lee Hutchinson, I have a garage. The door on that garage is opened and closed by a device made by a company that, …

Some electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are set to get less affordable from next year, it seems. As expected , the i…

For some PC buyers, doing a clean install of Windows right out of the box is part of the setup ritual. But for Arm-base…

BioWare’s reputation as a AAA game development studio is built on three pillars: world-building, storytelling, and char…

There's a general consensus that we won't be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations wi…

Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service, as it heightens focus on se…

President-elect Donald Trump today announced that a new Department of Government Efficiency—or "DOGE"—will b…

Bitcoin hit a new record high late Monday, its value peaking at $89,623 as investors quickly moved to cash in on expect…

Many of you know that most of our staff is spread out all over these United States, but what you might not know is that…

Cadillac has another new electric vehicle on the way. It's the 2026 Vistiq, a three-row SUV that fills the gap in t…

The astronauts who came home from the International Space Station last month experienced some drama on the high frontie…

Like a lot of competitors in the global launch industry, Russia for a long time dismissed the prospects of a reusable f…

During my first semester as a computer science graduate student at Princeton, I took COS 402: Artificial Intelligence .…

Captain America: Brave New World is star Anthony Mackie's first cinematic appearance as the new Captain Americ…

A Michigan man who ran chat rooms and Discord servers targeting children playing online games and coercing them into se…

People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster casts of the bodies of people who died in Pompeii when Mount V…

One frustrated customer wants to force Intel to pay untold millions in damages, claiming the company deceptively market…

If you've been wanting an electric car but everything seems too expensive , there's some good news on the horiz…