FCC to get Republican majority and plans to “delete” as many rules as possible

Jon Brodkin 2025-03-18 15:30:00 arstechnica.com By contrast, then-President Joe Biden waited nine months to choose a Democratic nominee in 2021....

Gemini gets new coding and writing tools, plus AI-generated “podcasts”

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-18 15:40:00 arstechnica.com On the heels of its release of new Gemini models last week, Google has announced...

Furious at the FCC, Arkansas jail cancels inmate phone calls rather than lower rates

Nate Anderson 2025-03-18 16:08:00 arstechnica.com If "the Federal Communications Commission reverses their adverse regulations," Montgomery said, "the Baxter County Sheriff's...

Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded?

Eric Berger 2025-03-18 19:56:00 arstechnica.com It looked like the final scene of a movie, the denouement of a long adventure...

Nvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers”

Benj Edwards 2025-03-18 17:19:00 arstechnica.com During Tuesday's Nvidia GTX keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two "personal AI supercomputers" called DGX...

Google inks $32 billion deal to buy security firm Wiz even as DOJ seeks breakup

Jon Brodkin 2025-03-18 12:53:00 arstechnica.com "While a tough regulatory climate in 2024 had hampered such large-scale deals, Wall Street is...

New EV battery boasts 5-min charge time, adding 250 miles of range

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-03-18 10:12:00 arstechnica.com "Our goal is to make EV charging as fast as refueling a gasoline car,"...

People in this career are better at seeing through optical illusions

Martin Doherty and Radoslaw Wincza, The Conversation 2025-03-18 07:30:00 arstechnica.com A hint came from our previous work comparing mathematical and...

UK online safety law Musk hates kicks in today, and so far, Trump can’t stop it

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-17 13:38:00 arstechnica.com Despite the UK's apparent hard stance to defend the OSA, Trump has suggested that there's...

Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law

Trump plan to fund Musk’s Starlink over fiber called “betrayal” of rural US

Jon Brodkin 2025-03-17 14:19:00 arstechnica.com “Some states are on the 1-yard line” Republicans criticized the Biden administration for not yet...

Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics

John Timmer 2025-03-17 18:27:00 arstechnica.com Most of the polymers incorporated a fair amount of lactic acid, which can also form...

“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

Scharon Harding 2025-03-17 15:34:00 arstechnica.com Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS are already subject to video...

Windows 11 updates are accidentally getting rid of Copilot, at least for now

Andrew Cunningham 2025-03-17 13:56:00 arstechnica.com Microsoft's Windows updates over the last couple of years have mostly been focused on adding...

Alphabet spins off laser-based Internet backbone provider Taara

Stephen Morris, Financial Times 2025-03-17 09:27:00 arstechnica.com Krishnaswamy, Taara’s general manager, says the next stage of development is a tiny...

Old Bolt, new tricks: Making an EV into a backup power station with an inverter

Kevin Purdy 2025-03-17 07:00:00 arstechnica.com That night, I plugged in the inverter, turned on the Bolt, flipped on the inverter,...

Nearly two years after its radical pivot, Fidelity slashes Relativity’s valuation

To avoid the Panama Canal, Relativity Space may move some operations to Texas

Eric Berger 2025-03-14 13:51:00 arstechnica.com Although Baytown does not have any historical affinity with aerospace, its location on the water...

Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected—and why it’s a problem

Kyle Orland 2025-03-15 06:00:00 arstechnica.com A sample result from the DSP sample test program. Credit: Allan Cecil A sample result...

For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids

Victoria Uwemedimo and Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine 2025-03-15 07:07:00 arstechnica.com At the same time, in many African countries, solar power now...

The same day Trump bought a Tesla, automaker moved to disrupt trade war

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-14 14:20:00 arstechnica.com Elon Musk's Tesla is waving a red flag, warning that Donald Trump's trade war risks...

RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats

Andrew Cunningham 2025-03-14 14:40:00 arstechnica.com One of the best mostly invisible updates in iOS 18 was Apple's decision to finally...

Crew-10 launches, finally clearing the way for Butch and Suni to fly home

Eric Berger 2025-03-14 20:15:00 arstechnica.com A Falcon 9 rocket launched four astronauts safely into orbit on Friday evening, marking the...

2025 iPad Air hands-on: Why mess with a good thing?

Samuel Axon 2025-03-14 18:14:00 arstechnica.com There’s not much new in Apple’s latest refresh of the iPad Air, so there’s not...

Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s hidden motives

Benj Edwards 2025-03-14 16:03:00 arstechnica.com In a new paper published Thursday titled "Auditing language models for hidden objectives," Anthropic researchers...