Trump’s DOJ seems annoyed about having to approve T-Mobile’s latest merger

Jon Brodkin 2025-07-11 13:52:00 arstechnica.com DOJ approval “reads like a complaint” The DOJ's unusual statement about the wireless industry oligopoly...

Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers’ stuff

Scharon Harding 2025-07-11 14:54:00 arstechnica.com In a somewhat anticipated move, Belkin is killing most of its smart home products. On...

A mess of its own making: Google nerfs second Pixel phone battery this year

Ryan Whitwam 2025-07-11 12:42:00 arstechnica.com Not all batteries age the same way. Some problems will appear quickly, but others won't...

Rocket Report: SpaceX to make its own propellant; China’s largest launch pad

Stephen Clark 2025-07-11 09:17:00 arstechnica.com Trust the computer ... It's easy to be skeptical about this project, but it has...

In the Southwest, solar panels in can help both photovoltaics and crops

Tina Deines, Inside Climate News 2025-07-11 07:11:00 arstechnica.com This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news...

“It’s a heist”: Senator calls out Texas for trying to steal shuttle from Smithsonian

Robert Pearlman 2025-07-10 20:05:00 arstechnica.com Citing research by NASA and the Smithsonian, Durbin said that the total was closer to...

Why Brembo uses endurance racing as a test bench for brake development

Kristin Shaw 2025-07-10 11:47:00 arstechnica.com "Ultimately, the more cooling holes, the lower the temperature of the disc," Miller said. "You...

Nintendo discontinues cost-saving game vouchers for Switch Online players

Andrew Cunningham 2025-07-10 14:30:00 arstechnica.com In 2019, Nintendo announced a new benefit for subscribers to its Switch Online service: a...

Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X

Benj Edwards 2025-07-10 12:05:00 arstechnica.com Musk has also apparently used the Grok chatbots as an automated extension of his trolling...

Ars Live recap: Climate science in a rapidly changing world

John Timmer 2025-07-10 12:16:00 arstechnica.com Our discussion with Zeke Hausfather. Click here for transcript. In late June, we hosted this...

Linda Yaccarino quits X without saying why, one day after Grok praised Hitler

Ashley Belanger 2025-07-09 12:28:00 arstechnica.com And "the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter" with xAI,...

Northwood Space successfully tests second-generation phased array antenna

Eric Berger 2025-07-09 13:00:00 arstechnica.com Northwood Space has completed initial testing of the second generation of its phased array antenna...

“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research

John Timmer 2025-07-09 15:55:00 arstechnica.com In their rush to terminate grants, each agency settled on a single form letter that...

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Dan Goodin 2025-07-09 16:08:00 arstechnica.com MellowTel is also problematic because the sites it opens are unknown to end users. That...

Report: Apple M4, more comfortable strap will headline first major Vision Pro update

Andrew Cunningham 2025-07-09 16:45:00 arstechnica.com Apple hasn't iterated on its Vision Pro hardware since launching it in early 2024 for...

AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation

Benj Edwards 2025-07-09 14:35:00 arstechnica.com Beyond market volatility, Nvidia faces ongoing geopolitical challenges that threaten its access to one of...

Verizon’s request to lock phones supported by police, opposed by users

Jon Brodkin 2025-07-09 15:30:00 arstechnica.com With Verizon seeking permission to lock phones to its network for six months or longer...

Ongoing attacks on Ivanti VPNs install a ton of sneaky, well-written malware

Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks

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Dan Goodin 2025-07-09 07:20:00 arstechnica.com A critical vulnerability allowing hackers to bypass multifactor authentication in network management devices made by...

Sizing up the 5 companies selected for Europe’s launcher challenge

Stephen Clark 2025-07-09 08:48:00 arstechnica.com European Space officials have cited the rule of geographic return as a reason for delays...

Wildfires are challenging air quality monitoring infrastructure

Claudia López Lloreda, Undark Magazine 2025-07-09 07:30:00 arstechnica.com Ten years ago, Tracey Holloway, an atmospheric scientist at the University of...

Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation

Jon Brodkin 2025-07-08 18:06:00 arstechnica.com FTC arguments rejected Summarizing the FTC's arguments, judges said the agency contended that US law...

Mike Lindell lost defamation case, and his lawyers were fined for AI hallucinations

Jon Brodkin 2025-07-08 15:15:00 arstechnica.com Lawyers representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell were fined $6,000 after using artificial intelligence...

Watch this cucumber squirt out its seeds at ballistic speeds

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-07-08 13:59:00 arstechnica.com Take a look at squirting cucumber explosive seed dispersal in real time and slowed down....

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