To regenerate a head, you first have to know where your tail is

John Timmer 2025-04-18 14:40:00 arstechnica.com Before a critical point in development, the animals failed to close the wound made by...

Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives

Kevin Purdy 2025-04-18 14:50:00 arstechnica.com Popular NAS-maker Synology has confirmed and slightly clarified a policy that appeared on its German...

Microsoft’s “1‑bit” AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems

Kyle Orland 2025-04-18 15:46:00 arstechnica.com Does size matter? Memory requirements are the most obvious advantage of reducing the complexity of...

Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”

Eric Berger 2025-04-18 15:59:00 arstechnica.com Secretary of Transportation weighs in That was pretty much how things stood until Thursday evening,...

Trump’s tariffs trigger price hikes at large online retailers

Ashley Belanger 2025-04-18 10:55:00 arstechnica.com It's unclear how high prices on Temu and Shein could go, but neither company is...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the dad rock of video games, and I love it

Samuel Axon 2025-04-18 08:30:00 arstechnica.com Assassin’s Creed titles are cozy games for me. There’s no more relaxing place to go...

US Interior secretary orders offshore wind project shut down

John Timmer 2025-04-17 16:25:00 arstechnica.com It's notable that this hold comes despite Trump's executive order explicitly stating, "Nothing in this...

At monopoly trial, Zuckerberg redefined social media as texting with friends

Ashley Belanger 2025-04-17 17:56:00 arstechnica.com If Meta can convince the court that the FTC's market definition is wrong and that...

There’s a secret reason the Space Force is delaying the next Atlas V launch

Stephen Clark 2025-04-17 20:23:00 arstechnica.com It wouldn't have been surprising for SpaceX to get priority on the range schedule since...

Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar

Benj Edwards 2025-04-17 18:42:00 arstechnica.com On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching...

Gemini 2.5 Flash comes to the Gemini app as Google seeks improve “dynamic thinking”

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-17 15:06:00 arstechnica.com Google's Gemini AI may have had a slow start, but it has been anything but...

What do you actually do in Mario Kart World’s vast open world?

Kyle Orland 2025-04-17 10:46:00 arstechnica.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq4uCJDwO9U Earlier this month, Nintendo let Ars Technica and other outlets have access to a...

RoboBee sticks the landing – Ars Technica

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-04-16 14:00:00 arstechnica.com The RoboBee is only slightly larger than a penny. Credit: Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory The first...

LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions

Scharon Harding 2025-04-16 16:14:00 arstechnica.com With all this information, ZenVision will group LG TV viewers into highly specified market segments,...

Disgruntled users roast X for killing Support account

Ashley Belanger 2025-04-16 16:34:00 arstechnica.com After X (formerly Twitter) announced it would be killing its "Support" account, disgruntled users quickly...

Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?

Eric Berger 2025-04-16 17:25:00 arstechnica.com Should the city of Houston, which proudly bills itself as "Space City," have a prized...

OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access

Benj Edwards 2025-04-16 18:21:00 arstechnica.com On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the release of two new models—o3 and o4-mini—that combine simulated reasoning...

Elon Musk and Trump win fight to keep DOGE’s work secret

Government IT whistleblower calls out DOGE, says he was threatened at home

Jon Brodkin 2025-04-16 15:04:00 arstechnica.com A government whistleblower told lawmakers that DOGE's access to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) systems...

Looking at the Universe’s dark ages from the far side of the Moon

Paul Sutter 2025-04-16 07:00:00 arstechnica.com Second, there was a time, within the first few hundred million years after the Big...

Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI’s frustrating security hole

Benj Edwards 2025-04-16 07:15:00 arstechnica.com Here's how it works. First, the system splits responsibilities between two language models: A "privileged...

Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for 3 days

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-15 12:00:00 arstechnica.com A silent update rolling out to virtually all Android devices will make your phone more...

Netflix plans to bring streaming into the $1 trillion club by 2030

Scharon Harding 2025-04-15 14:32:00 arstechnica.com Netflix doesn’t plan to disclose subscriber counts anymore, but one of WSJ’s anonymous sources said...

Google adds Veo 2 video generation to Gemini app

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-15 15:43:00 arstechnica.com Google has announced that yet another AI model is coming to Gemini, but this time,...

Nvidia nudges mainstream gaming PCs forward with RTX 5060 series, starting at $299

Andrew Cunningham 2025-04-15 12:36:00 arstechnica.com As with its other 50-series announcements, Nvidia is leaning on its DLSS Multi-Frame Generation technology...

An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

Jeremy Reimer 2025-04-14 07:00:00 arstechnica.com In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re...