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A long, costly road ahead for customers abandoning Broadcom’s VMware
"We loved VMware, and then when Broadcom bought em, we hated em."
Mazda celebrates 35 years of the MX-5 with anniversary model
The MX-5 is the perfect antidote to all those big SUVs.
DeepSeek panic triggers tech stock sell-off as Chinese AI tops App Store
A new Chinese AI app is sparking existential panic in American AI companies and investors.
With successful New Glenn flight, Blue Origin may finally be turning the corner
"This is the very beginning of the Space Age."
Jeep’s first battery EV is not what we expected: The 2024 Wagoneer S
Drag optimization means it's very quiet inside, but it's also quite expensive.
3D-printed “ghost gun” ring comes to my community—and leaves a man dead
3D-printed gun parts are worth real money on the black market.
WHO starts cutting costs as US withdrawal date set for January 2026
The US is currently the WHO's biggest funder, contributing about 18% of its budget.
Nvidia starts to wind down support for old GPUs, including the long-lived GTX 1060
Nvidia last dropped Game Ready driver support for older GPUs in 2021.
Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API
New feature allows Claude to reference source documents and reduce hallucinations.
Couple allegedly tricked AI investors into funding wedding, houses
FBI claims GameOn founder forged six years of financial records in brazen scheme.
Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games
Physicist used interaction graphs to show how pieces attack and defend to analyze 20,000 top matches.
For real, we may be taking blood pressure readings all wrong
Blood pressure readings while lying down beat seated readings at predicting heart risks.
ISP failed to comply with New York’s $15 broadband law—until Ars got involved
Optimum wasn't ready to comply with law, rejected low-income man's request twice.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC—but it sure is fast
Even setting aside Frame Generation, this is a fast, power-hungry $2,000 GPU.
Researchers optimize simulations of molecules on quantum computers
A new approach to simulating the electrons of small molecules like catalysts.
Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws
Flaws also allowed access to one year of location history.
Rocket Report: Did China’s reusable rocket work?; DOT may review SpaceX fines
Rocket Lab announced it will soon launch a batch of eight German-owned wildfire-detection satellites.
Backdoor infecting VPNs used “magic packets” for stealth and security
J-Magic backdoor infected organizations in a wide array of industries.
Way more game makers are working on PC titles than ever, survey says
80 percent of game devs are working on a PC project, up from 66 percent last year.
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can operate your computer
New research "Computer-Use Agent" AI model can jump in and help users with on-screen tasks.
All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work—ideally within 30 days
US agencies wasting billions on empty offices an embarrassment," RTO memo says.
Trump can save TikTok without forcing a sale, ByteDance board member claims
ByteDance apparently sees several non-sale options as Trump mulls resolution.
Doom: The Dark Ages wants to be more like the original Doom
Preview: A more grounded game than Doom Eternal in more ways than one.
Court rules FBI’s warrantless searches violated Fourth Amendment
Rights groups demand lawmakers add a warrant requirement to Section 702.
Trump’s FCC chair gets to work on punishing TV news stations accused of bias
Chairman Brendan Carr revives bias complaints against CBS, ABC, and NBC stations.
George R.R. Martin has co-authored a physics paper
"I couldn't help but wonder if a simple underlying model might tidy up the canon."
George R.R. Martin has co-authored a physics paper
"I couldn't help but wonder if a simple underlying model might tidy up the canon."
As OpenAI launches $500B “Stargate” project, critics express skepticism
Elon Musk questions funding for massive AI infrastructure project; Altman defends financial backing.
UK opens probe into Google’s and Apple’s mobile platforms
Regulator will examine how the tech giants compete with one another, treat developers.
600 kW fast-charging pitstops are coming to Formula E
After a couple of years' delay, mid-race recharging is ready to go.
Cadillac gives the Lyriq a race car-inspired glow-up
Now there's a Lyriq with 615 horsepower and Le Mans-inspired sounds.
Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen.
Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid
Power grid in Central Europe uses unencrypted radio signals to add and shed loads.
NASA moves swiftly to end DEI programs, asks employees to “report” violations
"Failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences."
Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body
High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man's was over 1,000 mg/dL.
Apple must face suit over alleged policy of underpaying female workers
Apple fails to argue sexual harassment claim was just about a seating preference.
Reddit won’t interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans
Hundreds of Reddit communities are currently considering disallowing X.
Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027
Amodei: "I think progress really is as fast as people think it is."
Wine 10.0 brings Arm Windows apps to Linux, still is not an emulator
Wine compatibility layer is the heart of many Windows app translation projects.
Trump admin fires security board investigating Chinese hack of large ISPs
Dismantled Cyber Safety Review Board was investigating Salt Typhoon telecom hack.
Samsung’s Galaxy S25 event was an AI presentation with occasional phone hardware
Samsung somehow packed even more AI into its event, and phones, than last year.
Fast radio burst in long-dead galaxy puzzles astronomers
Result "challenges existing theories that tie FRB origins to phenomena in star-forming galaxies."
The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes
Bigger, badder DDoSes are flooding the Internet. Dismal IoT security is largely to blame.
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump 10 years into life sentence
Trump confirmed the pardon was partly to honor" Libertarian movement.
Google increases investment in Anthropic by another $1 billion
AI group is closing in on a $60 billion valuation.
All the things Nintendo didn’t tell us about the Switch 2
Some informed speculation on everything from price to battery life.
Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well
Security measure? Boxing out third-party tools? Or something more complex?
New year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent
The cheapest ad-free plan increases from $15.49 to $17.99.
RIP EA’s Origin launcher: We knew ye all too well, unfortunately
End of 32-bit Windows support offered an excuse to put the nail in the coffin.
Apple Intelligence, previously opt-in by default, enabled automatically in iOS 18.3
Opting out is still possible in Settings, but only after setup is complete.
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