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Genetically engineered bacteria break down industrial contaminants
Five clusters of genes from different organisms put into a single bacterial strain.
Matter update may finally take the tedium out of setting up your smart home
Matter is taking care of a few common smart home headaches.
We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution
Wave of crypto kidnappings hits Europe.
Cue: Apple will add AI search in mobile Safari, challenging Google
Prior to AI, my feeling around this was none of the others were valid choices."
Starlink: Here’s a free satellite dish—if you pay $120 a month instead of $90
Accepting free dish blocks $90 monthly price available in excess-capacity areas.
VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom
Broadcom says it may audit VMware users.
Ars Technica’s gift guide for Mother’s Day: Give mom some cool things
Wondering what to get the mom who has everything? We've got some ideas!
Everything you ever wanted to know about four-wheel steering
With roots in early 20th-century trucks, 4WS is not widely understood.
Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities
"One way you can tell is it's always such a nice report," founder tells Ars.
Trump tariffs could make Americans pay $123B more annually for 10 common gadgets
Average US price of smartphones, game consoles, and laptops may soon exceed $1,000.
The Third Crisis dawns in Foundation S3 teaser
"If we fail, humanity will be lost forever. We act, or we lose."
Ford raises prices on Mexican-made cars—but not the full tariff cost
Mach-Es, Bronco Sports, and Mavericks already in inventory won't see a price increase.
Dangerous clear-air turbulence is worsening due to global warming
Climate change is making high-altitude winds much more volatile.
Jury orders NSO to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp users
The verdict is a major victory for opponents of exploit sellers.
The company with the world’s largest aircraft now has a hypersonic rocket plane
"Hypersonic systems are now pushing the envelope beyond what can be done by the human body."
Trump and DOJ try to spring former county clerk Tina Peters from prison
Trump directs DOJ to help secure release of Peters from Colorado prison.
Trump admin picks COVID critic to be top FDA vaccine regulator
Vinay Prasad is known for Twitter fights, comparing COVID responses to rise of Nazis.
FAA green-lights Starship launches every other week from Starbase
If SpaceX can clean up Starship's reliability issues, the company is free to fly.
Apps like Kindle are already taking advantage of court-mandated iOS App Store changes
Epic v. Apple litigation ushers in minor but user-friendly changes.
2025 Alfa Romeo Tonale Turbo review: Italian charm that cuts both ways
Lighter and cheaper than the PHEV, engaging to drive-some rough edges, though.
Nvidia GeForce xx60 series is PC gaming’s default GPU, and a new one is out May 19
New mainstream card has hardware upgrades but is still stuck with 8GB of RAM.
How long will Switch 2’s Game Key Cards keep working?
Nintendo's history suggests we can look forward to decades of support.
Trump administration cuts off all future federal funding to Harvard
Odd letter ostensibly about funding asks Harvard "why is there so much HATE?"
Find my… bicycle?
Knog's Scout gives bikes a motion-sensitive alarm and Bluetooth tracking.
Musk’s politics see Tesla sales collapse in Europe
Last month, Tesla sold just 512 cars in the UK and 885 cars in Germany.
Data centers say Trump’s crackdown on renewables bad for business, AI
Without renewables, it's nearly impossible to meet growing power demand from AI.
Lighter, cheaper Surface Laptop saves a little money but gives up a lot
$899 laptop looks fine, but the cost savings might not be worth it.
Microsoft’s 12-inch Surface Pro is cheaper but unfixes a decade-old design problem
New Surface Pro undoes a key improvement first used in 2014's Surface Pro 3.
Tuesday Telescope: After spacewalking, an astronaut strikes lightning
"I am so amazed by the view we have up here of our Earth's weather systems."
Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee
Fake image-generating app allowed man to download 1.1TB of Disney-owned data.
Heartbreaking video shows deadly risk of skipping measles vaccine
SSPE is rare but tragic-more so because it's completely vaccine-preventable.
Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked
Mike Waltz needs to find a new app.
OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure
The nonprofit board will retain control, but now investor billions hang in the balance.
Google accidentally reveals Android’s Material 3 Expressive interface ahead of I/O
Google published and then deleted details of the new Material 3 Expressive theme.
Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack
Attack that started in April and remains ongoing runs malicious code on visitors' devices.
Only elites used hallucinogens in ancient Andes society
Snuff tubes and spoons unearthed at Chavin de Huantar in Peru had traces of vilca and nicotine.
RIP Skype (2003–2025), survived by multiple versions of Microsoft Teams
Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011, and now its journey is over.
Why Google Gemini’s Pokémon success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Assistance from an external "agent harness" was key to the model's success.
After two court losses, DOGE asks Supreme Court for Social Security data access
Trump admin appeals to SCOTUS after two courts ruled DOGE can't access data.
Software update makes HDR content “unwatchable” on Roku TVs
Roku says it's investigating the problem.
Largest deepfake porn site shuts down forever
Unknown hero pulls the plug on biggest AI porn platform.
F1 in Miami: Like normal F1, but everyone wears pastels
The Miami event exemplifies the new breed of F1 venues, but it races well.
On cusp of storm season, NOAA funding cuts put hurricane forecasting at risk
Tropical cyclone track forecasts are 75 percent more accurate than they were in 1990.
SpaceX pushed “sniper” theory with the feds far more than is publicly known
"It came out of nowhere, and it was really violent."
The Last of Us packs new characters and new revelations into its latest episode
Plus: Kyle and Andrew discuss '80s pop covers and free jazz. No, seriously...
Review: Thunderbolts* is a refreshing return to peak Marvel form
That weird asterisk in the title makes sense once the credits roll, but we're not gonna spoil it for you.
Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts
Op-ed: Slowed manufacturing advancements are upending the way tech progresses.
A DOGE recruiter is staffing a project to deploy AI agents across the US government
A startup founder said that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government employees.
In his first 100 days, Trump launched an “all-out assault” on the environment
The threat posed by Trump's administration is on a new level," environmental groups and legal experts say.
We finally know a little more about Amazon’s super-secret satellites
Amazon's Kuiper satellites look nothing like SpaceX's Starlink.
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