Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star

Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News 2025-05-10 07:07:00 arstechnica.com One of Bush’s “points of light” Energy Star was first established under ...

A star has been destroyed by a wandering supermassive black hole

John Timmer 2025-05-09 09:37:00 arstechnica.com But note the phrasing there: "in most cases" and "eventually." Even in the cases where ...

Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made

Kevin Purdy 2025-05-09 14:55:00 arstechnica.com It's not the first time Torvalds has suggested dropping support for 32-bit processors and relieving ...

Google’s search antitrust trial is wrapping up—here’s what we learned

Ryan Whitwam 2025-05-09 15:51:00 arstechnica.com The great Google spinoff While Google certainly doesn't want to lose Chrome, there may be ...

Trump kills broadband grants, calls digital equity program “racist and illegal”

Jon Brodkin 2025-05-09 13:33:00 arstechnica.com President Donald Trump said he is killing a broadband grant program that was authorized by ...

Apple and Meta furious at EU over fines totaling €700 million

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

WIRED 2025-05-09 09:56:00 arstechnica.com At the same time, international interest in working in the United States has declined significantly. During ...

Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disasters

Ashley Belanger 2025-05-08 14:17:00 arstechnica.com The Trump administration's steep staff cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) triggered ...

DOGE software engineer’s computer infected by info-stealing malware

Dan Goodin 2025-05-08 14:27:00 arstechnica.com Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and ...

Fidji Simo joins OpenAI as new CEO of Applications

Benj Edwards 2025-05-08 14:45:00 arstechnica.com In the message, Altman described Simo as bringing "a rare blend of leadership, product and ...

AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests

Benj Edwards 2025-05-08 16:23:00 arstechnica.com Using AI can be a double-edged sword, according to new research from Duke University. While ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft built to land on Venus is falling to Earth instead

Stephen Clark 2025-05-08 16:59:00 arstechnica.com Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere ...

Microsoft effectively raises high-end Surface prices by discontinuing base models

Andrew Cunningham 2025-05-08 12:27:00 arstechnica.com While the Surface Pro and Laptop get price hikes that aren't technically price hikes, some Surface ...

Ford raises prices on Mexican-made cars—but not the full tariff cost

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-05-07 10:24:00 arstechnica.com Ford also told Ars that it will continue to offer employee pricing to all ...

Starlink: Here’s a free satellite dish—if you pay $120 a month instead of $90

Jon Brodkin 2025-05-07 14:41:00 arstechnica.com There are 15 US states in which Residential Lite is offered: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, ...

Cue: Apple will add AI search in mobile Safari, challenging Google

Samuel Axon 2025-05-07 15:44:00 arstechnica.com Apple executive Eddie Cue said that Apple is "actively looking at" shifting the focus of ...

Matter update may finally take the tedium out of setting up your smart home

Ryan Whitwam 2025-05-07 16:21:00 arstechnica.com There is no product category that better embodies the XKCD take on standards than smart ...

WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages

Dan Goodin 2025-05-07 18:04:00 arstechnica.com The flow of adding new members to a WhatsApp group message is: A group member ...

Genetic-engineered bacteria break down industrial contaminants

John Timmer 2025-05-07 16:50:00 arstechnica.com Once that was done, the researchers started looking through the genomes of species that have ...

Trump tariffs could make Americans pay $123B more annually for 10 common gadgets

Ashley Belanger 2025-05-07 12:33:00 arstechnica.com "If the US says one thing but does another, or even attempts to use negotiations ...

Microsoft’s 12-inch Surface Pro is cheaper but unfixes a decade-old design problem

Andrew Cunningham 2025-05-06 09:00:00 arstechnica.com Several downgrades, and one that’s hard to ignore The 12-inch Surface Pro. Credit: Microsoft The ...