Seven cool science stories we almost missed this month

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-01-31 07:30:00 arstechnica.com It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific ...

Microsoft now hosts AI model accused of copying OpenAI data

Benj Edwards 2025-01-30 11:37:00 arstechnica.com In another way, though, the move is a stamp of legitimacy on an AI model ...

Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965

Ashley Belanger 2025-01-30 15:46:00 arstechnica.com The US Copyright Office issued AI guidance this week that declared no laws need to ...

Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them

Jon Brodkin 2025-01-30 17:31:00 arstechnica.com Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS in ...

In Apple’s first-quarter earnings, the Mac leads the way in sales growth

Samuel Axon 2025-01-30 18:07:00 arstechnica.com Apple fell slightly short of investor expectations when it reported its first-quarter earnings today. While ...

OpenAI teases “new era” of AI in US, deepens ties with government

Ashley Belanger 2025-01-30 13:12:00 arstechnica.com On Thursday, OpenAI announced that it is deepening its ties with the US government through ...

Tesla’s 2024 financial results are out—and they’re terrible

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-01-30 08:18:00 arstechnica.com Tesla released its financial results for 2024 on Wednesday afternoon, following the close of ...

Sony removes PlayStation account requirement from 4 single-player Steam games

Samuel Axon 2025-01-29 13:59:00 arstechnica.com Sony's game publishing arm has done a 180-degree turn on a controversial policy of requiring ...

This mantis shrimp-inspired robotic arm can crack an egg

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-01-29 14:00:00 arstechnica.com This isn't the first time scientists have looked to the mantis shrimp as an inspiration ...

Trump admin rescinds controversial funding freeze after two days of protest

Jon Brodkin 2025-01-29 14:01:00 arstechnica.com Broadband program still in doubt As we've previously reported, US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and ...

Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law

Jon Brodkin 2025-01-29 17:45:00 arstechnica.com US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today proposed a law that would let copyright owners obtain ...

The long-planned return of two astronauts from space is now a political issue

Eric Berger 2025-01-29 16:29:00 arstechnica.com On Thursday NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to don spacesuits to ...

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review: More like a 4080 Super Super

Andrew Cunningham 2025-01-29 11:17:00 arstechnica.com The strategy with the 5080 looks pretty similar. You get a mild increase in core ...

Climate change set the table for Los Angeles wildfires

Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News 2025-01-29 10:05:00 arstechnica.com Taken together, the results all indicate climate change plays a major role, ...

For the first time, a privately developed aircraft has flown faster than sound

Eric Berger 2025-01-28 14:47:00 arstechnica.com A new generation of companies, including Boom Supersonic, are aiming to meld new ideas, technology, ...

Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren

Jon Brodkin 2025-01-28 15:23:00 arstechnica.com The Cruz resolution to nullify the FCC rule was co-sponsored by Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), ...

Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more

Dan Goodin 2025-01-28 15:56:00 arstechnica.com Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit ...

Why did Elon Musk just say Trump wants to bring two stranded astronauts home?

Eric Berger 2025-01-28 18:52:00 arstechnica.com For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social ...

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Ashley Belanger 2025-01-28 16:16:00 arstechnica.com Currently, Aaron predicts that Nepenthes might be most attractive to rights holders who want AI ...

Google goes gaga over the Gulf of Mexico

Eric Berger 2025-01-28 09:41:00 arstechnica.com Well, that didn't take long. Google Maps, the most popular mapping software in the world, ...

Why the markets are freaking out about Chinese AI newcomer DeepSeek

Tim Bradshaw, George Steer, Michael Acton, and Tabby Kinder, Financial Times 2025-01-28 09:22:00 arstechnica.com Chinese tech champion Huawei has emerged ...

Trump’s reported plans to save TikTok may violate SCOTUS-backed law

Ashley Belanger 2025-01-27 14:39:00 arstechnica.com A source familiar with Perplexity AI's proposal confirmed to Ars that the reporting from CNBC ...

US‘s wind and solar will generate more power than coal in 2024

John Timmer 2025-01-27 15:57:00 arstechnica.com We can expect next year's numbers to also show a large growth in solar production, ...

Apple will update iOS notification summaries after BBC headline mistake

With iOS 18.3, Apple Intelligence is now on by default

Samuel Axon 2025-01-27 17:02:00 arstechnica.com As is custom, Apple rolled out software updates to all its platforms at once today. ...

New FPGA-powered retro console re-creates the PlayStation, CD-ROM drive optional

Andrew Cunningham 2025-01-27 18:00:00 arstechnica.com Retro game enthusiasts may already be acquainted with Analogue, a company that designs and manufactures ...