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DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him
Pennsylvania cop charged with oppression and obstruction.
Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.
Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states
Judge grants restraining order, saying merger "likely to violate antitrust laws."
The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches
The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches.
The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches
The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches.
AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California
AT&T suffers setback but will keep asking court and FCC to preempt state rules.
RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony's disc-free PlayStation plan
Used discs are often cheaper than even deep digital discounts.
F1 in Belgium: Machine learning algorithms are ruining the sport
Many will say Spa is the best racetrack on earth, but not for these F1 cars.
AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes
Online retailer AliExpress says it's shocked by largest DSA fine yet.
The first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday is finally here
"Something's coming. Something we may not be able to deter."
Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices.
Governments look at banning ransom payments in face of increasingly sophisticated threats.
Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
Augment Code's Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.
India's first privately developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
"On the first attempt, reaching orbit, I never thought it was possible."
As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease
Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.
Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like
"Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury."
Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield
"We're turning the clock back on rational healthcare."
Taco Bell iceberg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states
Don't eat Taco Bell lettuce in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, or West Virginia.
Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
American Diabetes Association blocked publication of op-ed articles so the authors posted them as a preprint.
Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028.
Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
Fubo subscribers still don't have Versant channels.
San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
Desktops, laptops, phones, CPUs, GPUs, NAS-if you know this stuff, come work for us!
The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.
FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.
2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
Quick, comfortable, roomy, and agile for a large electric SUV.
Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?
"We have done everything that could be done to test Vikram-1 on ground."
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start
"Now offloading propellant. Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days."
Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing
Both nominees flailed in their own unique ways as senators sought answers.
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines
T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.
It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.
Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say
If only someone could have predicted it.
2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric
Toyota's everyday small SUV should rarely require trips to the gas station.
Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.
Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.
We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere
If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind.
OnePlus confirms shutdown in the US and Europe, ending months of speculation
OnePlus promises to continue supporting the phones it has already released.
Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.
"We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like constellation."
Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom
Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.
Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds
NTSB findings back Elon Musk's claim that driver manually overrode FSD.
Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback
Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as a GPS alternative.
Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there
Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.
Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon
While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.
Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.
Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park
Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.
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