Amazon kills remote working, tells workers to be in office 5 days a week

Hot-desking is out, assigned floor plans are in. | Continue reading


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iOS 18’s new home screen features are a long-awaited win for flexibility

Wiggle mode gets an update that opens up almost Android-like customization. | Continue reading


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Google backs privately funded satellite constellation for wildfire detection

"Authorities will have high-resolution imagery that is updated globally every 20 minutes." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model

OpenAI does not want anyone to know what o1 is “thinking" under the hood. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Archaeologists believe this Bronze Age board game is the oldest yet found

Origins of Hounds and Jackals, aka Fifty-Eight Holes, may lie in Asia rather than Egypt. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Secure Boot-neutering PKfail debacle is more prevalent than anyone knew

Keys were marked "DO NOT TRUST." More devices than previously known used them anyway. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Boar’s Head will never make liverwurst again after outbreak that killed 9

The Jarratt, Virginia, plant is now closed indefinitely. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps

TikTok's survival in the US may depend on an appeals court ruling this December. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Apple software leaks new Mac mini with five USB-C ports ahead of rumored event

Apple often launches Macs and iPads in October, after the iPhone dust settles. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Brazil judge seizes cash from Starlink to cover fine imposed on Elon Musk’s X

Starlink and X treated as one economic group, forcing both to pay X fines. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

iOS 18 brings RCS to major carrier iPhones, but prepaid plans are still waiting

A future iOS update may be needed to unlock better Apple-to-Android messages. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Lexus at its peak—the 2024 RX450h+ is one smooth plug-in hybrid

The plug-in hybrid powertrain is pleasant, but the infotainment can irritate. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

UFO 50 is the best retro-gaming homage I’ve ever played

Collection of 50 new '80s-era game concepts brims with originality, care, and joy. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Also releasing today: New iOS 17, macOS 14 updates for the upgrade-averse

Security updates without the headaches for the risk-averse (and bug-averse). | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

macOS 15 Sequoia: The Ars Technica review

Apple Intelligence isn't ready yet. There's still a lot here to like. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Mice made transparent with a dye used in Doritos

Matching refractive indexes lets some wavelengths pass cleanly through the skin. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

DirecTV and Disney end blackout, claim they will offer better channel packages

Companies promise "more flexible options" for channel and streaming packages. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison

"We’re going to have supervision," says billionaire Oracle co-founder Ellison. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

So what are we to make of the highly ambitious, private Polaris spaceflight?

They flew high, they walked in space, and finally early on Sunday, they landed. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Bizarre, nine-day seismic signal caused by epic landslide in Greenland

Unidentified seismic object resulted in skyscraper-high tsunami. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

A single peptide helps starfish get rid of a limb when attacked

A signaling molecule that's so potent injected animals may drop more than one limb. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Navy captains don’t like abandoning ship—but with Starliner, the ship left them

"As the commander of pilot of your spacecraft, you don’t want to see it go off without you." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Biden moves to crack down on Shein and Temu, slow shipments into US

Rapid growth of Temu and Shein threatens US businesses and consumers, Biden says. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

1.3 million Android-based TV boxes backdoored; researchers still don’t know how

Infection corrals devices running AOSP-based firmware into a botnet. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Final trailer for Venom: The Last Dance introduces Knull, god of symbiotes

"This world can't survive if you stay together." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Here’s why you shouldn’t freak out about lead in your cinnamon

For the most part, you'd have to eat a weirdly large amount to cause a problem. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Google rolls out voice-powered AI chat to the Android masses

Gemini Live allows back-and-forth conversation, now free to all Android users. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Neofetch is over, but many screenshot system info tools stand ready

Dev behind a popular screenshot tool checks out, but the successors are good. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Free Starlink Internet is coming to all of United’s airplanes

The upgrade starts in 2025, but with more than 1,000 planes, will take several years. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

“Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X

“Elon Musk’s had more positions on free speech than the Kama Sutra," says lawmaker. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Remembering where your meals came from key for a small bird’s survival

For small birds, remembering where the food is beats forgetting when it's gone. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 months ago

Rocket Report: China leaps into rocket reuse; 19 people are currently in orbit

Launch startups in China and Europe are borrowing ideas and rhetoric from SpaceX. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

CEO of “health care terrorists” faces contempt charges after Senate no-show

Senators are pursuing both civil and criminal contempt charges. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes

The award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

Court clears researchers of defamation for identifying manipulated data

Harvard, however, will still face trial over how it managed the investigation. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

Unity is dropping its unpopular per-install Runtime Fee

Cross-platform game engine saw the downside to "novel and controversial" plan. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

OpenAI’s new “reasoning” AI models are here: o1-preview and o1-mini

New o1 language model can solve complex tasks iteratively, count R's in "strawberry." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

“Face with bags under eyes” sets the tone for new Unicode 16.0 emoji update

New designs will roll out to phones, tablets, and PCs over the next few months. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

AI chatbots might be better at swaying conspiracy theorists than humans

Co-author Gordon Pennycook: "The work overturns a lot of how we thought about conspiracies." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

Reported Dreamcast addict Tim Walz is now an unofficial Crazy Taxi character

New "Tim Walz Edition" mod lets the VP hopeful earn some ca-razy (campaign) money. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

US sting of online gun part sales started with a shipment marked “fidget spinner”

US seizes 350 sites that masked gun part imports from China as toys, jewelry. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

EVgo and GM reveal their new fast charger experience

The layout and canopy are similar to a gas station. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

Eminent officials say NASA facilities some of the “worst” they’ve ever seen

Buildings at Johnson Space Center in Houston are among the worst at any NASA facility. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

Europe’s privacy watchdog probes Google over data used for AI training

Meta and X have already paused some AI training over same set of concerns. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

GM, Hyundai team up to slash costs of new vehicles and clean tech

The hope is for better products and more efficient companies. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

iFixit’s FixHub tools want to pull soldering away from the wall socket

Battery-powered USB-C soldering iron aims to improve over what's out there. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago

Keeping your eyes on the road is easy with the Engo 2 AR sunglasses

These augmented reality sunglasses work with Apple, Android, and Garmin | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 months ago