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Determining how "successful" Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) truly was depends on …

MANVILLE, N.J.—Richard Onderko said he will never forget the terrifying Saturday morning back in 1971 when the water ro…

Earlier this month, a hacker named Lovely claimed to have breached a Condé Nast user database and released a list of mo…

2025 has been a tumultuous year for the car world. After years of EV optimism, revanchists are pushing back against thi…

Imran Ahmed's biggest thorn in his side used to be Elon Musk, who made the hate speech researcher one of his earlie…

The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive …

In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far easte…

SIM cards, the small slips of plastic that have held your mobile subscriber information since time immemorial, are on t…

As the first year of Donald Trump's chaotic trade war winds down, the tech industry is stuck scratching its head, w…

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once tho…

Ever since 1993, I think I've unconsciously judged almost every game by how well it can capture how Wing Commander:…

When we put together our top 20 games of last year, we specifically called out Civilization 7 , Avowed , Doom: The Dark…

Editor’s note : Warning: Although we’ve done our best to avoid spoiling anything major, please note this list does incl…

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing co…

For the second time this month, a Chinese rocket designed for reuse successfully soared into low-Earth orbit on its fir…

You've no doubt heard some version of the Robert Burns adage about the best-laid plans. Marvel Studios had an e…

For the better part of two months last year, most of us had no idea how serious the problems were with Boeing's Sta…

The world's largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend …

Director Christopher Nolan won two well-deserved Oscars for 2023's Oppenheimer , and Hollywood was soon buzzing …

Apple was hit with a $115 million fine Monday after Italy's competition authority alleged the tech giant was abusin…

Artemis II, meet Astrovan II. NASA's first astronauts who will fly by the moon in more than 50 years participated …

At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat softw…

There’s a lot of goodwill out there for the Chevrolet Bolt . As maybe the first properly affordable longer-range electr…

SEATTLE—The last coal-fired power plant in Washington state was set to go cold at the end of the year. It would then sw…

The first few months of 2025 were full of graphics card reviews where we generally came away impressed with performance…

There have been a number of high-profile cases where scientific papers have had to be retracted because they were fille…

Guitarists today are spoiled for choice, and that goes doubly true for players who use computer-based amp modeling soft…

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today faced blistering criticism in a Senate hearing for his Se…

One of the big stories of last year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the debut of Donut Lab’s diminutive bu…

The US threatened to restrict some of the largest service providers in the European Union as retaliation for EU tech re…

A few weeks ago, technicians inside a cavernous clean room in Maryland made the final connection to complete assembly o…

Senators launched a probe Tuesday demanding that tech companies explain exactly how they plan to prevent data center pr…

Apple doesn’t like to talk about its upcoming products before it’s ready, but sometimes the company’s software does the…

The UK government reportedly will “encourage” Apple and Google to prevent phones from displaying nude images except whe…

Google began offering “dark web reports” a while back, but the company has just announced the feature will be going awa…

Roomba maker iRobot has filed for bankruptcy and will be taken over by its Chinese supplier after the company that popu…

When Verizon refused to unlock an iPhone purchased by Kansas resident Patrick Roach, he had no intention of giving up w…

Dozens of Ukrainian civilians filed a series of lawsuits in Texas this week, accusing some of the biggest US chip firm…

President Trump issued an executive order yesterday attempting to thwart state AI laws, saying that federal agencies mu…

Warner Bros. has been hinting all week that it was coming and finally dropped the long-awaited first extended teaser…

The Wild West of copyrighted characters in AI may be coming to an end. There has been legal wrangling over the role of …

A little while back, we took a look at a large cargo bike from Urban Arrow that had some interesting features: a drive…

On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model design…

In a surprising, and likely temporary, turn of events, the number of people paying to watch cable channels has grown. …

Donald Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to export an advanced artificial intelligence chip, the H200, to China may give…

Big Tech has spent the past year telling us we’re living in the era of AI agents, but most of what we’ve been promised …

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices appear ready to overturn a 90-year-old precedent that said the president cann…

Near the end of the film A House of Dynamite , a fictional American president portrayed by Idris Elba sums up the theor…

Nearly a decade after Pebble’s nascent smartwatch empire crumbled, the brand is staging a comeback with new wearables.…

Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) streaming and movie studio businesses last week. But …

Almost every bit of bike testing I’ve done starts out the same way. After assembling the bike, I set the seatpost to it…

Meta has agreed to make changes to its “pay or consent” business model in the EU, seeking to agree to a deal that avoid…

Prime Video dropped an extended teaser for the fifth and final season of The Boys —based on the comic book series o…

It’s time to admit, before God and the good readers of Ars Technica, that I have a problem. I love roguelikes. Reader, …

Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneti…

CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-size…

Somewhere, a pig is catching some sweet air. In a rare move for a streaming service, Fubo announced today that it’s lo…

The bidding war is over, and Netflix has been declared the winner. After flirting with Paramount Skydance and Comcast…

The panel of federal vaccine advisors hand-selected by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has once aga…

When Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine hardware last month , some eagle-eyed gamers may have been surprised to…