What solar? What wind? Texas data centers build their own gas power plants

Dylan Baddour, Arcelia Martin, Inside Climate News 2025-06-05 11:58:00 arstechnica.com In a statement, Sandow Lakes Energy denied that the power ...

FDA rushed out agency-wide AI tool—it’s not going well

Beth Mole 2025-06-05 07:15:00 arstechnica.com FDA staffers who spoke with Stat news, meanwhile, called the tool "rushed" and said its ...

An in-space propulsion company just raised a staggering amount of money

Eric Berger 2025-06-04 09:28:00 arstechnica.com Starting small The company's initial product was the Mira spacecraft, powered by nitrous oxide and ...

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war

John Timmer 2025-06-04 18:00:00 arstechnica.com All of which would seem to call for the leadership of US science organizations to ...

Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament

Benj Edwards 2025-06-04 18:13:00 arstechnica.com On Tuesday, classic computer collector Joe Strosnider announced the availability of a new 3D-printer filament ...

Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads

Ryan Whitwam 2025-06-04 12:20:00 arstechnica.com On an average day, you might unlock or look at your phone dozens of times, ...

Science PhDs face a challenging and uncertain future

Claudia López Llareda, Undark Magazine 2025-06-04 09:56:00 arstechnica.com However, in recent years, researchers who advise graduate students have begun to ...

Two certificate authorities booted from the good graces of Chrome

Dan Goodin 2025-06-04 07:20:00 arstechnica.com Google says its Chrome browser will stop trusting certificates from two certificate authorities after “patterns ...

Milky Way galaxy might not collide with Andromeda after all

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-06-03 09:53:00 arstechnica.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2x_31dE04s 100,000 computer simulations reveal Milky Way's fate—and it might not be what we thought. ...

Adobe finally releases Photoshop for Android, and it’s free (for now)

Ryan Whitwam 2025-06-03 12:36:00 arstechnica.com Adobe has spent years releasing mobile apps that aren't Photoshop, and now it's finally giving ...

Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer

Benj Edwards 2025-06-03 16:22:00 arstechnica.com In 1979, Atari released the Atari 400 and 800, groundbreaking home computers that included custom ...

Trump is forcing states to funnel grant money to Starlink, Senate Democrats say

Jon Brodkin 2025-06-03 14:24:00 arstechnica.com Lutnick's announcement of the BEAD overhaul also criticized what he called the program's "woke mandates" ...

11 things you probably didn’t know the Switch 2 can do

Kyle Orland 2025-06-03 10:48:00 arstechnica.com You can use mouse mode to navigate system menus I stumbled on this feature when ...

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Dan Goodin 2025-06-03 08:00:00 arstechnica.com An overview of Yandex identifier sharing An overview of Yandex identifier sharing A timeline of ...

Google settles shareholder lawsuit, will spend $500M on being less evil

Ryan Whitwam 2025-06-02 16:35:00 arstechnica.com "Over the years, we have devoted substantial resources to building robust compliance processes," a Google ...

Microsoft wants a version of USB-C that “just works” consistently across all PCs

Andrew Cunningham 2025-06-02 17:19:00 arstechnica.com "Windows Diagnostics Data shows that 27 percent of PCs with USB4 have encountered a limited ...

ISP settles with record labels that demanded mass termination of Internet users

Jon Brodkin 2025-06-02 13:54:00 arstechnica.com The Trump administration weighed in on Cox's side, arguing that ISPs should not be held ...

F1 in Spain: Now that was a lapse in judgment

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-06-02 10:26:00 arstechnica.com Russell was next, at turn 1, giving Verstappen what looked like a dose of ...

Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device

Scharon Harding 2025-06-01 07:35:00 arstechnica.com Apple TVs running tvOS 14.5 and later also make third-party app tracking more difficult by ...

Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement

Lily Hay Newman, wired.com 2025-05-31 09:32:00 arstechnica.com Stern’s eminence within Russian cybercrime has been widely documented. The cryptocurrency-tracing firm Chainalysis ...

Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy

Scharon Harding 2025-05-30 17:18:00 arstechnica.com Amazon Fire Sticks are enabling “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy, according to a ...

Google and DOJ tussle over how AI will remake the web in antitrust closing arguments

Ryan Whitwam 2025-05-30 17:40:00 arstechnica.com At the same time, Google is seeking to set itself apart from AI upstarts. "Generative ...

The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not

Ryan Whitwam 2025-05-30 12:36:00 arstechnica.com This block of AI-generated text will soon appear automatically in some threads. Credit: Google This ...

Blue Origin boss: Government should forget launch and focus on “exotic” missions

Stephen Clark 2025-05-30 07:20:00 arstechnica.com Artist's concept of Blue Ring, a propulsive spacecraft platform Blue Origin says it is developing ...