Some flies go insomniac to ward off parasites

Elizabeth Rayne 2025-05-02 11:49:00 arstechnica.com Those genes associated with metabolism were upregulated, meaning they showed an increase in activity. An ...

Google teases NotebookLM app in the Play Store ahead of I/O release

Ryan Whitwam 2025-05-02 12:24:00 arstechnica.com After several years of escalating AI hysteria, we are all familiar with Google's desire to ...

DOJ confirms it wants to break up Google’s ad business

Ryan Whitwam 2025-05-02 17:28:00 arstechnica.com In the trial, Google will paint this demand as a severe overreach, claiming that few, ...

Microsoft’s new “passwordless by default” is great but comes at a cost

Dan Goodin 2025-05-02 16:14:00 arstechnica.com Microsoft says it’s making passwordless logins the default means for signing in to new accounts, ...

Claude’s AI research mode now runs for up to 45 minutes before delivering reports

Benj Edwards 2025-05-02 12:39:00 arstechnica.com Still, the report contained a direct quote statement from William Higinbotham that appears to combine ...

Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit

Eric Berger 2025-05-02 09:45:00 arstechnica.com "This probably helps explain why Schmidt bought Relativity Space," I commented on the social media ...

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

Rocket Report: Starbase the city is coming soon; Alpha remains in beta

Eric Berger 2025-05-02 07:00:00 arstechnica.com SpaceX launches 50th rocket of the year. The California company launched two separate Starlink missions ...

Meet the winners of the 2025 Dance Your PhD contest

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-05-01 12:33:00 arstechnica.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOa6GJ6_les Sulo Roukka is this year's overall winner of the Dance Your PhD contest, plus ...

Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits

Nate Anderson 2025-05-01 15:41:00 arstechnica.com Being a model citizen and a person of taste, you probably don't need this reminder, ...

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

Benj Edwards 2025-05-01 17:32:00 arstechnica.com A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative ...

New study accuses LM Arena of gaming its popular AI benchmark

Ryan Whitwam 2025-05-01 16:31:00 arstechnica.com The rapid proliferation of AI chatbots has made it difficult to know which models are ...

Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots

Ryan Whitwam 2025-05-01 13:01:00 arstechnica.com Google has built an enormously successful business around the idea of putting ads in search ...

Microsoft raises prices on Xbox hardware, says “some” holiday games will be $80

Kyle Orland 2025-05-01 09:17:00 arstechnica.com Microsoft is increasing the recommended asking price of Xbox hardware and accessories worldwide starting today ...

Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi

Lily Hay Newman and Andy Greenberg, WIRED.com 2025-04-30 13:52:00 arstechnica.com Oligo also notes that many of the vulnerable devices have ...

Fortnite will return to iOS as court slams Apple’s “interference“ and ”cover-up“

Kyle Orland 2025-04-30 20:19:00 arstechnica.com In a statement provided to Ars Technica, an Apple spokesperson said, "We strongly disagree with ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid

Stephen Clark 2025-04-30 23:18:00 arstechnica.com An illustration depicts a NASA spacecraft approaching the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. Though there are no ...

DNA links modern pueblo dwellers to Chaco Canyon people

John Timmer 2025-04-30 17:28:00 arstechnica.com A thousand years ago, the people living in Chaco Canyon were building massive structures of ...

Sundar Pichai says DOJ demands are a “de facto” spin-off of Google search

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-30 14:49:00 arstechnica.com The Department of Justice (DOJ) rested its case in Google's search remedy trial earlier this ...

Nintendo imposes new limits on sharing for digital Switch games

Kyle Orland 2025-04-30 12:44:00 arstechnica.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwyh74MXXY A March video explaining the new Virtual Game Card system that launched via system ...

Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-04-30 09:08:00 arstechnica.com WASHINGTON—Here in DC, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will meet today to discuss ...

Google: Governments are using zero-day hacks more than ever

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-29 12:53:00 arstechnica.com Governments hacking enterprise A few years ago, zero-day attacks almost exclusively targeted end users. In ...

Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen

Stephen Clark 2025-04-29 15:10:00 arstechnica.com There are several European launchers in operation or development—Arianespace's Vega, Isar Aerospace's Spectrum, and Rocket ...

OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT a sycophantic mess

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-29 17:15:00 arstechnica.com In search of good vibes OpenAI, along with competitors like Google and Anthropic, is trying ...

Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance

Andrew Cunningham 2025-04-29 18:13:00 arstechnica.com Intel's oddball Core Ultra 200V laptop chips—codenamed Lunar Lake—will apparently be a one-off experiment, not ...

FCC urges courts to ignore 5th Circuit ruling that agency can’t issue fines

Jon Brodkin 2025-04-29 15:25:00 arstechnica.com "The Fifth Circuit concluded that the FCC's enforcement proceeding leading to a monetary forfeiture order ...