Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store

Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 days ago

Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay

Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 days ago

Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299

It can recognize up to six users with its camera. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 days ago

They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think.

Solar geoengineering simulation shows what happens when geopolitics takes over. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 days ago

High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom

Co-author: “The unique geometry of the valves is the key; they act as collapsible pistons" to deliver venom. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 days ago

39-year-old unvaccinated woman becomes 6th measles death in Pennsylvania

As of Friday, state health officials reported 1,136 cases across 41 counties. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 days ago

Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model

"No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 days ago

After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man's Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad

You can get a universe in your pocket if you have an iPhone 11 or later. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 days ago

WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights "key uncertainty"

Without a cause of death, it's unclear if Russia's precautions were the right ones. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 days ago

Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police

“I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 days ago

Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine

Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 days ago

Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port

Kojima's discontinued "playable trailer" is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 days ago

F1 in Singapore: There's a new fastest car now

Also, F1’s final sprint saw our first real wet racing of the year. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 days ago

Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air

The Fitbit Edge offers more than the Air, but it's not a real smartwatch. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 days ago

Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?

The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 days ago

Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films

Alex Gibney's provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there's not much new here for Ars readers. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 days ago

Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC

Also: new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic, Godzilla Minus One | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 days ago

One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.

Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 days ago

Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone

Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"

One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis

Stylish upcycling, with a retro flare, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations

"We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?

Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial

CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023

"The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner

New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release

Debian Linux has put a call out for artist submissions for its next release: Forky. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

Nationwide 800 MHz spectrum to help Starlink provide mobile coverage indoors. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency

The US says Microsoft abused immigration rules; the company disputes the claim. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?

"I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here

The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink

"These led to conjunctions of tens of meters to hundreds of meters. Way too close to comfort." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts

Judge questioned if Trump delaying access to Truth Social posts by a second harms the press. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms

After hack and data breach, senator asks why Trump Mobile lacks some FCC filings. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules

Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027

Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches

Mass surveillance gets stupider. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries

"[T]he Trump-RFK Jr anti-vax agenda keeps getting more corrupt and dangerous." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light

Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever

Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year

"If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

ExxonMobil's own scientists doubted climate fixes the company hyped

Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots

Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist

Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes

Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones

Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago