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Apple pays $750 million for US Formula 1 streaming coverage
Some races will be free as F1 TV moves from standalone streaming to Apple TV.
3 years, 4 championships, but 0 Le Mans wins: Assessing the Porsche 963
Riding high in IMSA but pulling out of WEC paints a complicated picture for the factory team.
Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans
AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.
Rocket Report: China launches with no advance warning; Europe’s drone ship
Starlink, Kuiper, and the US military all saw additions to their mega-constellations this week.
Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to
Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification.
RFK Jr.’s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again
It's unclear if Kennedy will follow through, but he supports the conspiracy theory.
AI-powered features begin creeping deeper into the bedrock of Windows 11
Copilot expands with an emphasis on creating and editing files, voice input.
Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.
Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.
Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAI's finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman.
OnePlus unveils OxygenOS 16 update with deep Gemini integration
Does your phone even have a Mind Space?
Sony tells SCOTUS that people accused of piracy aren’t “innocent grandmothers”
Music companies want ISPs to terminate repeat infringers or pay big damages.
Apple TV and Peacock bundle starts at $15/month, available on Oct. 20
The bundle starts at $15/month, compared to $21/month if purchased separately.
Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code
UZDoom fork promises to fix other top-down leadership problems with the decades-old mod.
OpenAI thinks Elon Musk funded its biggest critics—who also hate Musk
Cutthroat" OpenAI accused of exploiting Musk fight to intimidate and silence critics.
SpaceX has plans to launch Falcon Heavy from California—if anyone wants it to
There's no big rush to bring SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good
Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole.
Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google's hand.
Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”
"AI is one thing that, as a commander, it's been very, very interesting for me."
Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest
Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative.
Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets
"We're trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy."
Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network
Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits.
CDC tormented: HR workers summoned from furlough to lay off themselves, others
Traumatized CDC has lost 33% of its workforce this year, union says.
Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 matches May’s frontier model at fraction of cost
Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.
ISPs angry about California law that lets renters opt out of forced payments
Gov. Newsom signs broadband billing law hated by the cable industry.
US demand grows for Chinese cars despite privacy and security fears
But they're still unlikely to go on sale in the US.
Google’s AI videos get a big upgrade with Veo 3.1
Veo 3.1 is coming to the Gemini app and the Flow filmmaking tool.
ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says
Sam Altman claims new tools can detect mental distress while relaxing limits for adults.
Apple unveils M5 update for the 11- and 13-inch iPad Pros
Leaks of the new tablet from a couple weeks ago appear to have been genuine.
New Apple M5 is the centerpiece of an updated 14-inch MacBook Pro
A 27.5% increase in memory bandwidth provides a big boost to GPU performance.
Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false
"Winning" means prioritizing independence from outside influence over being right.
With considerably less fanfare, Apple releases a second-generation Vision Pro
Reports suggest that Apple has de-prioritized Vision Pro development internally.
ROG Xbox Ally X: The Ars Technica review
The first portable Xbox" fails to unify a messy world of competing PC gaming platforms.
NATO boss mocks Russian navy, which is on the hunt for Red October “the nearest mechanic”
A Russian sub surfaces off of Western Europe. Is it damaged?
Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”
Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.
Trump admin pressured Facebook into removing ICE-tracking group
Pam Bondi claims Facebook group was used to dox and target" ICE agents.
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.
Google will let Gemini schedule meetings for you in Gmail
Help Me Schedule creates a meeting widget based on the context of your message.
OpenAI unveils “wellness” council; suicide prevention expert not included
OpenAI reveals which experts are steering ChatGPT mental health upgrades.
Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop
The 1 petaflop DGX Spark system runs AI models with 200 billion parameters locally for $4K.
GM’s EV push will cost it $1.6 billion in Q3 with end of the tax credit
With EV demand predicted to plummet, GM has rejiggered its production plans.
Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths
End users can get an extra year of security updates relatively easily.
OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views
New paper reveals reducing "bias" means making ChatGPT stop mirroring users' political language.
SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2
This was the last flight of SpaceX's second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.
Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones
Malicious app required to make "Pixnapping" attack work requires no permissions.
Measles outbreak in SC sends 150 unvaccinated kids into 21-day quarantine
The outbreak includes at least seven confirmed cases, but some are clearly being missed.
Google’s Photoshop-killer AI model is coming to search, Photos, and NotebookLM
After more than 5 billion AI image edits, Nano Banana is expanding.
Starship’s elementary era ends today with mega-rocket’s 11th test flight
"The final phase of Starship's trajectory on Flight 11 includes a dynamic banking maneuver."
To shield kids, California hikes fake nude fines to $250K max
California cracks down on AI as child safety concerns grow.
Apple’s streaming service gets harder to tell apart from its streaming app, box
Apple unifies its remaining streaming offerings by dropping the "+".
Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.
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