Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA ...
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers.
Not just Signal: Michael Waltz reportedly used Gmail for government messages
National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and a senior aide used personal Gmail accounts for government communications, ...
Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better
"Unshittification" is not always the result of "innovation"—sometimes it's just about treating people decently. Responding to ...
Everything you need to know about bird flu
A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals — mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...
2025 Audi RS e-tron GT: More range, more power, still drives like an Audi
Audi provided flights from Washington to Las Vegas and accommodation so Ars could drive the RS e-tron GT. Ars does not accept ...
DOGE staffer’s YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity
A SpaceX and X engineer, Christopher Stanley—currently serving as a senior advisor in the Deputy Attorney General's office at ...
RFK Jr.‘s bloodbath at HHS: Blowback grows as losses become clearer
The downsizing includes pushing out about 10,000 full-time employees through early retirements, deferred resignations, and ...
A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor
On Wednesday, a team of researchers from China used a paper published in Nature to describe a 32-bit RISC-V processor built ...
Some original Switch games will run better on Switch 2; some won’t run at all
We've known for a few months now that the Nintendo Switch 2 will support backward compatibility for older Nintendo Switch ...
Do ya think I’m sexy? Male fruit flies more attractive when drunk.
Then again, apparently adding alcohol to their food increases the production of sex pheromones in male fruit flies, according ...
Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch
In a highly anticipated Nintendo Direct presentation this morning, the company revealed new information about the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware and software ahead of a newly announced June 5, 2025, ...