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Trump promised a drilling boom, but US energy industry hasn’t been interested
Exec: Liberation Day chaos and tariff antics have harmed the domestic energy industry."
The first company to complete a fully successful lunar landing is going public
Some of Firefly's programs are going quite well. Others, not so much.
Review: Fantastic Four: First Steps is the best film version so far
The plot makes no sense, but that retro-futuristic Tomorrowland vibe and superb cast make it (mostly) work.
Futurehome smart hub owners must pay new $117 subscription or lose access
The connected devices now only work manually without a subscription.
Trump caving on Nvidia H20 export curbs may disrupt his bigger trade war
China's frontier AI will be fueled by Nvidia H20 chips, experts warn Trump.
Blender developers begin work on full-fledged mobile version
Support will come to the iPad Pro first, with other platforms to follow.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
"This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.
How the Trump FCC justified requiring a “bias monitor” at CBS
Trump FCC claims there's precedent for CBS ombudsman, but it's a weak one.
Nude women streamed to office TV derail Oklahoma Board of Education meeting
Police are now involved.
Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel
State-owned Aeroflot cancels dozens of flights, stranding travelers throughout Russia.
Trump admin. is muffling CDC’s flagship health journal, report finds
CDC's MMWR is publishing much less, and sources say studies now require RFK Jr.'s sign-off.
Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update
Google's Battery Performance Program update was supposed to stop this.
Smithsonian Air and Space opens halls for “milestone” and “future” artifacts
John Glenn's Friendship 7 returns as SpaceX and Blue Origin artifacts debut.
Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says
Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.
Fermented meat with a side of maggots: A new look at the Neanderthal diet
Researchers reconstruct ancient diets by studying stable nitrogen isotope ratios.
A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology
"Testing this tech will be helpful for navigation in contested environments."
F1 in Belgium: The best racetrack in the world
Changeable conditions usually make for exciting races, but 2025 was a bit dull.
Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned
"We have some 2,000 or 2,200 objects that I call the 'red order of battle.'"
Peacemaker S2 trailer finds our anti-hero in a parallel world
"I don't want to be a joke anymore. I want to be a real hero."
20 years after Katrina, New Orleans remembers
20 years ago, Ivor Van Heerden warned of impending disaster in New Orleans. Are his warnings still going unheeded?
Robots eating other robots: The benefits of machine metabolism
If you define "metabolism" loosely enough, these robots may have one.
Microsoft to stop using China-based teams to support Department of Defense
The tech giant has relied on global workforce to support federal clients.
This aerogel and some sun could make saltwater drinkable
Previous aerogels didn't work on a scale that was large enough to matter.
After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges
As BlackSuit's dark web site goes dark, Chaos is already around to pick up the slack.
Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursday
"Starlink went down across the entire front."
North Korean hackers ran US-based “laptop farm” from Arizona woman’s home
North Korea made millions from the scheme.
Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha
Opinions are mixed on the retraction, and the authors continue to defend their work.
Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update
Update also blocks compatibility with popular third-party apps.
OpenAI’s most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in August
Sources say new model combines o3 reasoning with general GPT capabilities.
Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter
Descent is a big part of gaming history, but not many people talk about it.
Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say
Lawmakers want to prevent companies from using AI to increase prices or lower wages.
Mistral’s new “environmental audit” shows how much AI is hurting the planet
Individual prompts don't cost much, but billions together can have aggregate impact.
The electric Stark Varg EX is brutally fast but a little too unrefined
This all-electric enduro monster needs a little more time in the oven.
Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand
Attacks affected packages, including one with ~2.8 million weekly downloads.
Inventor claims bleach injections will destroy cancer tumors
A lack of medical training isn't stopping a man from charging $20,000 for the treatment.
Skydance deal allows Trump’s FCC to “censor speech” and “silence dissent” on CBS
FCC now has never-before-seen controls" over a newsroom, commissioner warns.
Going chain-free with the Priority Gemini gravel bike
Gravel is even more fun when cleanup is a breeze.
The 2025 Audi RS 3 is a five-cylinder firecracker
The updated compact sedan packs personality into an accessible package.
Rocket Report: Channeling the future at Wallops; SpaceX recovers rocket wreckage
China's Space Pioneer seems to be back on track a year after an accidental launch.
Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket
Eliminating the Block 1B upgrade now would save NASA at least $500 million per year.
Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes
"I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.
Hackers—hope to defect to Russia? Don’t Google “defecting to Russia.”
Criminals who get caught are, unsurprisingly, not always great at opsec.
Google’s new “Web Guide” will use AI to organize your search results
The Web Guide experiment is available as an opt-in feature today.
Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok
"TikTok is going to go dark," commerce secretary warns as negotiations falter.
Trump’s order to make chatbots anti-woke is unconstitutional, senator says
Trump plans to use chatbots to eliminate dissent, senator alleged.
Nvidia AI chips worth $1B smuggled to China after Trump export controls
Black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing's high-tech ambitions.
Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging
"Some people just don't learn from experience; they fail to realize their own behavior is causing the problem."
Some VMware perpetual license owners are unable to download security patches
Customers will get patches at unspecified "later date," Broadcom says.
Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles
Dozens of games deleted with no advance notice, thousands more hidden by "deindexing."
Six lesser-known features to like in the macOS 26 Tahoe public beta
Here are some things you can kick the tires on if you install the public beta.
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