Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-04-30 09:08:00 arstechnica.com WASHINGTON—Here in DC, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will meet today to discuss...

Google: Governments are using zero-day hacks more than ever

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-29 12:53:00 arstechnica.com Governments hacking enterprise A few years ago, zero-day attacks almost exclusively targeted end users. In...

Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen

Stephen Clark 2025-04-29 15:10:00 arstechnica.com There are several European launchers in operation or development—Arianespace's Vega, Isar Aerospace's Spectrum, and Rocket...

OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT a sycophantic mess

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-29 17:15:00 arstechnica.com In search of good vibes OpenAI, along with competitors like Google and Anthropic, is trying...

Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance

Andrew Cunningham 2025-04-29 18:13:00 arstechnica.com Intel's oddball Core Ultra 200V laptop chips—codenamed Lunar Lake—will apparently be a one-off experiment, not...

FCC urges courts to ignore 5th Circuit ruling that agency can’t issue fines

Jon Brodkin 2025-04-29 15:25:00 arstechnica.com "The Fifth Circuit concluded that the FCC's enforcement proceeding leading to a monetary forfeiture order...

Physics of the perfect cacio e pepe sauce

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-04-29 11:42:00 arstechnica.com Terlizzi and his fellow author are all living abroad and frequently meet for dinner. Cacio...

AI-generated code could be a disaster for the software supply chain. Here’s why.

Dan Goodin 2025-04-29 07:15:00 arstechnica.com In AI, hallucinations occur when an LLM produces outputs that are factually incorrect, nonsensical, or...

What’s it like to be 70 years old in space? “All those little aches and pains heal up.”

Eric Berger 2025-04-28 16:29:00 arstechnica.com Not many people celebrate their birthday by burning a fiery arc through the atmosphere, pulling...

ChatGPT goes shopping with new product-browsing feature

Benj Edwards 2025-04-28 18:04:00 arstechnica.com On Thursday, OpenAI announced the addition of shopping features to ChatGPT Search. The new feature...

Spain is about to face the challenge of a “black start”

John Timmer 2025-04-28 18:27:00 arstechnica.com Local conditions While the grids in Spain and Portugal are connected to each other, they...

Trump’s hasty Take It Down Act has “gaping flaws” that threaten encryption

Ashley Belanger 2025-04-28 17:09:00 arstechnica.com While the tech law is expected to achieve the rare feat of getting through Congress...

OnePlus lowers Watch 3 price by $150, promises refunds for early buyers

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-28 11:42:00 arstechnica.com Things are still uncertain, but OnePlus claims to have made some adjustments to its supply...

Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark

Lee Hutchinson 2025-04-28 10:09:00 arstechnica.com National grid operators in Spain and Portugal confirm that a massive electrical blackout has hit...

iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years

Dan Goodin 2025-04-28 07:00:00 arstechnica.com All three of the ChoiceJacking techniques defeat Android juice-jacking mitigations. One of them also works...

In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource

Benj Edwards 2025-04-25 07:00:00 arstechnica.com Cultivating the future So what might a sustainable ecosystem for human creativity actually involve? Legal...

Report: TP-Link’s low router prices probed in criminal antitrust investigation

Jon Brodkin 2025-04-25 12:54:00 arstechnica.com The report of a criminal antitrust investigation follows a report in December that US authorities...

Is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion still fun for a first-time player in 2025?

Kyle Orland 2025-04-26 07:08:00 arstechnica.com To be sure, Patrick Stewart's regal delivery in the early game helps paper over a...

Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired

Samuel Axon 2025-04-25 16:48:00 arstechnica.com Traditional closed captions are still available, of course. Those are labeled "English CC" whereas this...

New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths

John Timmer 2025-04-25 17:06:00 arstechnica.com What does the "typical" exosolar system look like? We know it's not likely to look...

Looming tariffs are making it extra hard to be a tech geek

Scharon Harding 2025-04-25 17:33:00 arstechnica.com Please consider your purchase thoroughly before ordering. Providing more detail around how tariffs impact a...