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A measles investigation amid a large, ongoing outbreak at the Arizona-Utah border has hit a roadblock as the first prob…

AT&T yesterday sued the advertising industry’s official watchdog over the group’s demand that AT&T stop using i…

The Trump administration is refusing to give broadband-deployment grants to states that enforce net neutrality rules or…

On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Reuters during a livestream that going public “is the most likely path for us, …

Attackers are exploiting a major weakness that has allowed them access to the NPM code repository with more than 100 cr…

Steven Hatfill, a senior advisor for the Department of Health and Human Services was fired over the weekend, with healt…

Social media videos have confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CB…

An AI language model like the kind that powers ChatGPT is a gigantic statistical web of data relationships. You give i…

The US will weigh a ban on children’s access to companion bots, as two senators announced bipartisan legislation Tuesda…

Porsche provided flights from Albany, New York, to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could drive the 911 Turbo S.…

Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews , the world at large has been aware of how AI-powered sea…

AT&T committed a big no-no in its latest advertising campaign against T-Mobile, according to the organization that …

A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagon…

Hurricane Melissa will make landfall in southern Jamaica less than 24 hours from now, and it is likely to be the most c…

Businesses are increasingly being deceived by employees using artificial intelligence for an age-old scam: faking expen…

“Opening locks” might not sound like scintillating social media content, but Trevor McNally has turned lock-busting int…

Digital reading devices like the Kindle have existed for almost 20 years, and the standard eReader form factor has hard…

Yesterday, Donald Trump announced on social media that he had been planning to “surge” troops into San Francisco this …

Meta violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to give Facebook and Instagram users simple mechanisms to repor…

On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with “high quality” data will lead to better performance than fee…

The end of the dinosaurs was clearly linked to an asteroid impact that brought the Cretaceous period to a close. But th…

The director of a federal health institute that has arguably produced two of the most controversial government studies …

Microsoft said earlier this month that it wanted to add better voice controls to Copilot , Windows 11’s built-in chatbo…

Shock and dismay have already begun as Americans face next year’s health insurance costs—and it looks like everyone wil…

Once upon a time, two villagers visited the fabled Mullah Nasreddin. They hoped that the Sufi philosopher, famed for hi…

SpaceX said it disabled over 2,500 Starlink terminals suspected of being used by scammers in Myanmar. Lauren Dreyer, vi…

A little over a year ago, one of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft flew a team of four private astronauts to orbit on a m…

All the world’s discarded phones, bricked laptops, and other trashed electronics are collectively a treasure trove of r…

Chances are you’ve encountered some version of the “ Ebbinghaus illusion ,” in which a central circle appears to be sma…

Two Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from spaceports in Florida and California on Sunday afternoon, adding 56 more satellite…

Formula 1 held the third of its five North American rounds this past weekend at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, …

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For more than a decade, researchers have wondered whether artificial intelligence could help predict what incapacitated…

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Sunday that it is investigating an airliner that was struck by an ob…

Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon’s Ring smart cameras. In a partners…

In 1890, a German scientist named Robert Koch thought he’d invented a cure for tuberculosis, a substance derived from …

On Tuesday of last week, Ars Technica hosted a live conversation with Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast a…

OnePlus is expected to take the wraps off the OnePlus 15 in the next few weeks, but before that, it's giving us a l…

Record labels Sony, Warner, and Universal yesterday asked the Supreme Court to help it boot pirates off the Internet. …

In a rarity for Apple’s streaming service, users will be able to buy bundled subscriptions to Apple TV and Peacock for …

The dust is still settling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a mass layoff Friday, which former e…

On Wednesday, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, a small AI language model that reportedly delivers performance simi…

Rejecting opposition from the cable and real estate industries, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that aims to…

Attorney General Pam Bondi today said that Facebook removed an ICE-tracking group after "outreach" from the D…

As if DirecTV doesn't have enough trouble keeping customers, the satellite TV provider's streaming devices will…

Meetings can be a real drain on productivity, but a new Gmail feature might at least cut down on the time you spend sch…

Health officials in South Carolina are warning that the highly infectious measles virus is spreading undetected in comm…

SpaceX is set to launch the 11th full-scale test flight of the company's Starship rocket Monday evening, with hopes…

Federal health agencies are reeling from mass layoffs on Friday that appear to have particularly devastated the Center…

I came across possibly one of the weirdest official automotive accessories this morning, courtesy of a friend's soc…

Owners of some Jeep Wrangler 4xe hybrids have been left stranded after installing an over-the-air software update this …

The Star Trek universe panel at New York Comic Con (NYCC) this weekend concluded with a brand new trailer for Star …

Amazon Echo Show owners are reporting an uptick in advertisements on their smart displays. The company's Echo Show…

Marvel Studios has dropped the first teaser for Wonder Man , an eight-episode miniseries slated for a January releas…

Bose will brick key features of its SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers and soundbars soon. On Thursday, Bose informed customers …

A few weeks ago, Google told US Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that it would allow creators banned for COVID and election mis…

Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in or…

AI bubble talk is in the air, and among the chorus of voices warning of an AI-fueled market bubble (which includes Ope…

Cards Against Humanity , the often-vulgar card game, has launched a limited edition of its namesake product without any…

Salesforce says it’s refusing to pay an extortion demand made by a crime syndicate that claims to have stolen roughly 1…

The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally signed off on recommendations for th…

The letter from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accusing Wikipedia of left-wing bias seems to be based on fundamental misunder…