Dirty deeds in Denver: Ex-prosecutor faked texts, destroyed devices to frame colleague

January 8, 2025

Nate Anderson 2025-01-07 15:38:00 arstechnica.com How we got here Choi was a young attorney a few years out of law...

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

Eric Berger 2025-01-07 17:41:00 arstechnica.com For several years, an innovative, California-based launch company named Relativity Space has been the darling...

Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck.

Kyle Orland 2025-01-07 15:51:00 arstechnica.com Almost exactly a year ago, we were publicly yearning for the day when more portable...

Switch 2 leaks point to controllers that work like computer mice

Kyle Orland 2025-01-07 11:59:00 arstechnica.com Here at Ars, we're judicious about which of the many, many Switch 2 rumors we...

Tesla Summon under federal safety investigation

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-01-07 10:40:00 arstechnica.com Tesla is the target of yet another federal safety probe, the fourth currently open...

Annual power ranking of US launch companies finds a shake-up at the bottom

Eric Berger 2025-01-07 07:00:00 arstechnica.com Once again, we're back with our annual power ranking of US launch companies. 2024 was...

AMD’s new laptop CPU lineup is a mix of new silicon and new names for old silicon

Andrew Cunningham 2025-01-06 15:31:00 arstechnica.com AMD's CES announcements include a tease about next-gen graphics cards, a new flagship desktop CPU,...

“I’m getting dizzy”: Man films Waymo self-driving car driving around in circles

Jon Brodkin 2025-01-06 15:43:00 arstechnica.com Waymo says the problem only caused a delay of just over five minutes and that...

Apple will update iOS notification summaries after BBC headline mistake

January 6, 2025

Samuel Axon 2025-01-06 19:28:00 arstechnica.com Nevertheless, it's a serious problem when the summaries misrepresent news headlines, and edge cases where...

Disney makes antitrust problem go away by buying majority stake in Fubo

January 6, 2025

Scharon Harding 2025-01-06 15:58:00 arstechnica.com Fubo’s about-face Fubo's merger with Disney represents a shocking about-face for the sports-streaming provider, which...

HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content

January 6, 2025

Kevin Purdy 2025-01-06 12:27:00 arstechnica.com We've all had a good seven years to figure out why our interconnected devices refused...

Rocket Report: Avio named top European launch firm; New Glenn may launch soon

January 4, 2025

Eric Berger 2025-01-03 07:00:00 arstechnica.com To deal with more launches, FCC adds spectrum. The Federal Communications Commission has formally allocated...

Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions

January 4, 2025

Dan Goodin 2025-01-03 07:15:00 arstechnica.com Screenshot showing the phishing email sent to Cyberhaven extension developers. Credit: Amit Assaraf A link...

Marvel Rivals lifts 100-year “cheating” bans on Mac and Steam Deck players

January 4, 2025

Kevin Purdy 2025-01-03 13:48:00 arstechnica.com With Valve's impressive work on the Proton tool for Linux and the Mac's Game Porting...

VW fixes ID.4 door handles, will restart production, sales

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-01-03 16:18:00 arstechnica.com Last September, faulty door handle hardware caused Volkswagen to take the rather drastic steps...

One less thing to worry about in 2025: Yellowstone probably won’t go boom

John Timmer 2025-01-03 18:01:00 arstechnica.com Underneath Yellowstone: Two large lobs of hot material from the mantle (in yellow) melt rock...

Instagram users discover old AI-powered “characters,” instantly revile them

Kyle Orland 2025-01-03 15:15:00 arstechnica.com A little over a year ago, Meta created Facebook and Instagram profiles for "28 AIs...

Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics

Ashley Belanger 2025-01-03 11:36:00 arstechnica.com Anthropic did not immediately respond to Ars' request for comment on how guardrails currently work...

Fast radio bursts originate near the surface of stars

John Timmer 2025-01-03 07:30:00 arstechnica.com One of the two papers published on Wednesday looks at the polarization of the photons...

Samsung is the next company to try to popularize 3D displays (again)

Scharon Harding 2025-01-02 13:42:00 arstechnica.com Interestingly, Samsung’s announcement today only mentioned the release of a 27-inch, 4K resolution 3D monitor,...

Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M

Ashley Belanger 2025-01-02 14:29:00 arstechnica.com Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice...

USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect

Kevin Purdy 2025-01-02 14:49:00 arstechnica.com Fewer bricks, standardized “fast charging” The most significant impact this USB-C requirement has had so...

Appeals court blocks FCC’s efforts to bring back net neutrality rules

Ashley Belanger 2025-01-02 16:53:00 arstechnica.com "The key here is not whether Broadband Internet Service Providers utilize telecommunications; it is instead...

Someone made a CAPTCHA where you play Doom on Nightmare difficulty

Samuel Axon 2025-01-02 15:05:00 arstechnica.com It's a WebAssembly application, but it was made via a human language, prompt-driven web development...

Using 2D materials on chips without destroying the wiring