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Ars chats with co-authors Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal about their delightful new children's book.

Texas app law compared to checking IDs at bookstores and shopping malls.

Lawsuit accuses nudify apps of training on teen victims' images.

Preparations for the Artemis II mission continue despite the federal government shutdown.

Backup firm brings a unique, informed perspective to HDD failure rates.

A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin fossils.

Some races will be free as F1 TV moves from standalone streaming to Apple TV.

Riding high in IMSA but pulling out of WEC paints a complicated picture for the factory team.

AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.

Starlink, Kuiper, and the US military all saw additions to their mega-constellations this week.

Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification.

It's unclear if Kennedy will follow through, but he supports the conspiracy theory.

Copilot expands with an emphasis on creating and editing files, voice input.

Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.

Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAI's finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman.

Does your phone even have a Mind Space?

Music companies want ISPs to terminate repeat infringers or pay big damages.

The bundle starts at $15/month, compared to $21/month if purchased separately.

UZDoom fork promises to fix other top-down leadership problems with the decades-old mod.

Cutthroat" OpenAI accused of exploiting Musk fight to intimidate and silence critics.

There's no big rush to bring SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google's hand.

"AI is one thing that, as a commander, it's been very, very interesting for me."

Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative.

"We're trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy."

Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits.

Traumatized CDC has lost 33% of its workforce this year, union says.

Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.

Gov. Newsom signs broadband billing law hated by the cable industry.

But they're still unlikely to go on sale in the US.

Veo 3.1 is coming to the Gemini app and the Flow filmmaking tool.

Sam Altman claims new tools can detect mental distress while relaxing limits for adults.

Leaks of the new tablet from a couple weeks ago appear to have been genuine.

A 27.5% increase in memory bandwidth provides a big boost to GPU performance.

"Winning" means prioritizing independence from outside influence over being right.

Reports suggest that Apple has de-prioritized Vision Pro development internally.

The first portable Xbox" fails to unify a messy world of competing PC gaming platforms.

A Russian sub surfaces off of Western Europe. Is it damaged?

Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.

Pam Bondi claims Facebook group was used to dox and target" ICE agents.

Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.

Help Me Schedule creates a meeting widget based on the context of your message.

OpenAI reveals which experts are steering ChatGPT mental health upgrades.

The 1 petaflop DGX Spark system runs AI models with 200 billion parameters locally for $4K.

With EV demand predicted to plummet, GM has rejiggered its production plans.

End users can get an extra year of security updates relatively easily.

New paper reveals reducing "bias" means making ChatGPT stop mirroring users' political language.

This was the last flight of SpaceX's second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.

Malicious app required to make "Pixnapping" attack work requires no permissions.