PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated

Pennsylvania reported 1,066 outbreak-linked cases on Wednesday. | Continue reading


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TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits

TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US, still needs exemption from FCC ban. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand

Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns

In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift

Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari

Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Trade group crunches numbers on Trump’s impossible push for 100% US-made tech

Trump's aggressive reshoring push could cost tech firms $230 billion, CTA estimates. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models

Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally

The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport

More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Review: Fine, let's talk about Digger

Its excesses may try one’s patience at times, but the film sticks the landing with a savagely moving finale. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

If you're looking, here's a "good deal" for NASA and the European Space Agency

"We are in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the US." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says

Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU

Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”

A combined service could lead to higher prices. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane

To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth

Paramount now owns Warner Bros. as last-ditch effort to stop $111B merger fails. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Support Ars and get a better reading experience in return

ArsPro gives you more ways to read while directly supporting our journalism. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Amazon kills Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers' AUX input

Amazon hasn't made an Echo with a 3.5mm port in six years. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize

Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Googlebook "Better Together" phone features don't work with Samsung at launch

Googlebooks require Android 17, but Samsung's Android 17 phones won't work yet. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?

"The administrator's directive is a coherent and necessary vision for the future." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

All-electric camping gets a solar upgrade: The 2027 Pebble Flow

The Pebble Flow has a 45 kWh LFP battery and can even charge an EV. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial

Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey

Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of

Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap

Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27

The tool can free up over 12GB of storage. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel

The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps

Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

F1 in Bahrain... in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start

A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher

Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

AI glasses face their first major government crackdown

Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches

Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"

Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 12 days ago

Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife

Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners, Loki) narrates NatGeo's new documentary Africa: Earth's Wild Home | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 12 days ago

All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.

The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 12 days ago

Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94

"...we were making history." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 13 days ago

The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 13 days ago

Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents

Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 14 days ago

Someone got Doom in an SQL database

1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 14 days ago

Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash

Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 14 days ago

Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed

Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 14 days ago

Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M

Critics say workers are still owed far more. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 14 days ago

The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy

It wasn't obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth. | Continue reading


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