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Advocates fear such settlements will "financially ruin" the AI industry.

ChatGPT allegedly provided suicide encouragement to teen after moderation safeguards failed.

Half of a year of data shows that the solar boom is not slowing down.

Live copy of NUMIDENT "lacks any security oversight," whistleblower alleges.

There are no major new consumer features. Enterprises get a few things though.

"We wish we were young again and NASA was this vivacious, you know?"

ChatGPT taught teen jailbreak so bot could assist in his suicide, lawsuit says.

EchoStar selling spectrum to AT&T after FCC threatened to revoke licenses.

Expect Apple's next-gen iPhones, software release dates, and some other devices.

The soft top is cheaper and, oddly, more refined.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is currently atop LMArena's image-editing leaderboard.

Older Ryzen 7040-based model will stick around at $1,299 as a lower-end option.

Triple-fermented Belgian beers have the longest-lasting foam; single-fermented lagers have the shortest.

If they improve further, AI weather models may very well become the gold standard.

Project was 80 percent complete and was slated to power more than 350,000 homes.

Update: This Ars Live session has been rescheduled.

Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport.

Breaches in 2020 and 2025, reportedly by foreign adversaries, exposed confidential files.

New series will star Michelle Yeoh and take place 50 years after the 2017 film.

It's not a first-there was a case last year-but it's still disturbing.

OpenAI slams Musk's lawsuit as part of his "ongoing pattern of harassment."

Trump says ABC and NBC "give me 97% BAD STORIES," urges FCC to revoke licenses.

Users of X3D CPUs in ASRock motherboards seem to be at particularly high risk.

Google says this isn't technically "GenAI," but it is altering videos without warning.

It's not for the squeamish, but if a campy blood-splattered B-movie is your jam, the film opens Aug. 29.

Now you Zenit, now you don't.

A new tool lets you explore how much a vehicle would emit in every county of the US.

Mexican tetras in pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs.

"The boost kit will help sustain the orbiting lab's altitude, starting in September."

Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don't exist.

SpaceX is gearing up for another Starship launch after three straight disappointing test flights.

If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison groundwater.

Words you'll never speak still cause activity in the brain's speech centers.

The bacterium is known to live in Mississippi, but the new cases may expand its range.

Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation.

Intel deal could pave the way for the US to profit off CHIPS Act funding.

Disgruntled developer was caught after naming the "kill switch" after himself.

4chan asks US to "invoke all legal levers" in fight against Online Safety Act.

The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV.

The X-37B spaceplane is flying missions few would have foreseen when the program began.

Neuroscientists find people who don't enjoy music, study their brain activity.

"There's really something special about the way moon jellies swim."

Here's the "least silly way" to wrap your head around the FTC's war over X ads.

Starship returns to the launch pad for the first time in three months.

The $30,000 TV brings a new, colorful conversation to home theaters.

The ruling also blocks the policy behind their termination.

"Someone will lose a phenomenal amount of money," says CEO while fundraising at record prices.

A new report looks at barriers to EV charging.

Apple, like other streamers, is facing a difficult economic reality.

Brutal treatment may have been part of "public theater of violence" celebrating victory in battle.