The amorous adventures of earwigs

Elaborate courtship, devoted parenthood, gregarious nature (and occasional cannibalism)—earwigs have a lot going for them. | Continue reading


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Apple’s headphone adapter for older iPhones sells out, possibly never to return

The end of Lightning is nigh. It's a bummer for folks with older phones, though. | Continue reading


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Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad

Summaries are often wrong, usually odd, sometimes funny, rarely helpful. | Continue reading


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Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school

Parents test if school leaders can be prosecuted over failure to report AI nudes. | Continue reading


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Trump’s FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs

Carr says he wants to punish broadcast media and dismantle "censorship cartel." | Continue reading


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April Fools’ joke results in Japanese firm making a beige ’80s throwback PC case

You can fit lots of modern hardware inside—and prop your monitor on top. | Continue reading


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Racing turns its back on heavy, expensive hybrids for sustainable fuel

Racing's experiment with hybrid powertrains isn't going great. | Continue reading


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SpaceX president predicts rapid increase in Starship launch rate

"It's going to be hard to catch us, but I certainly hope people try." | Continue reading


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Urban Arrow’s front-loader is a stylish, functional cargo/kid hauler

With either cargo or kids, the Family is impeccably designed and a smooth ride. | Continue reading


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Study confirms Egyptians likely used hallucinogens in rituals

Special concoction also contained honey, sesame seeds, pine nuts, licorice, and grapes to make it look like blood. | Continue reading


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Silo S2 expands its dystopian world

Ars chats with cinematographer Baz Irvine about creating a fresh look for the sophomore season. | Continue reading


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These are the lasting things that Half-Life 2 gave us, besides headcrabs and crowbars

Beyond the game itself (which rocks), Half-Life 2 had a big impact on PC gaming. | Continue reading


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A lot of people are mistaking Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites for UAPs

"We were able to assess that they were all in those cases looking at Starlink flares." | Continue reading


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Citing “decreasing” launch opportunities, ABL Space will pivot to missile defense

"Our path to making a big contribution as a commercial launch company narrowed considerably." | Continue reading


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FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft’s cloud business

Microsoft is accused of using punitive licensing terms for Azure. | Continue reading


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I played Half-Life 2 for the first time this year—here’s how it went

Wake up and smell the ashes, Ms. Washenko. | Continue reading


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OpenAI accused of trying to profit off AI model inspection in court

How do you get an AI model to confess what's inside? | Continue reading


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Review: Amazon’s 2024 Kindle Paperwhite makes the best e-reader a little better

If you use any Kindle other than the 2021 Paperwhite, this is a huge upgrade. | Continue reading


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I, too, installed an open source garage door opener, and am loving it

OpenGarage restored my home automations and gave me a whole bunch of new ideas. | Continue reading


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Trump team puts EV tax credit on the block, Tesla is on board: Report

Elon Musk is on record as saying it would hurt competitors more than Tesla. | Continue reading


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Microsoft makes it easier to do a clean Windows install on Arm-based PCs

Generic install media brings Arm PCs closer to feeling like any old x86 PC. | Continue reading


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A standing desk won’t improve your heart health—but it won’t hurt it either

Whatever your office setup, the most important thing is to move. | Continue reading


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ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher

A co-author of Attention Is All You Need reflects on ChatGPT's surprise and Google's conservatism. | Continue reading


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EU fines Meta €800 million for breaking law with Marketplace

EU: Tying the free Facebook Marketplace to the social network undermines rivals. | Continue reading


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Faulty Colorsofts have left some Kindle owners without an e-reader

A trade-in program doesn't work too well when the new product has tech issues. | Continue reading


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Half-Life 2 pushed Steam on the gaming masses… and the masses pushed back

Back in 2004, many players saw Valve’s new platform as nothing but “fancy DRM.” | Continue reading


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Here’s how to survive your relatives’ uninformed anti-EV rant this Thanksgiving

Need to bust anti-EV myths at the Thanksgiving dinner table? Here's how. | Continue reading


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After working with a dual-screen portable monitor for a month, I’m a believer

More pixels and versatility, but without the sacrifices of dual-screen PCs. | Continue reading


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Dragon Age: The Veilguard and the choices you make while saving the world

“Events are weaving together quickly. The fate of the world shall be decided.” | Continue reading


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IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware

Incremental improvements across the hardware and software stacks add up. | Continue reading


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Amazon ends free ad-supported streaming service after Prime Video with ads debuts

Selling subscriptions to Prime Video with ads is more lucrative for Amazon. | Continue reading


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Trump says Elon Musk will lead “DOGE,” a new Department of Government Efficiency

Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to target "massive waste and fraud." | Continue reading


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What did the snowball Earth look like?

Entire continents, even in the tropics, seems to have been under sheets of ice. | Continue reading


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How Valve made Half-Life 2 and set a new standard for future games

From physics to greyboxing, Half-Life 2 broke a lot of new ground. | Continue reading


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GOG’s Preservation Program is the DRM-free store refocusing on the classics

GOG still puts up new DRM-free titles, but it sees opportunities in oldies. | Continue reading


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Firefly Aerospace rakes in more cash as competitors struggle for footing

The Series D fundraising round was "oversubscribed" and netted Firefly $175 million. | Continue reading


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Tesla is recalling 2,431 Cybertrucks, and this time there’s no software fix

Owners of the affected trucks will require replacement hardware. | Continue reading


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Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history

Former airman's arrest raised questions about who gets access to confidential docs. | Continue reading


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Teen in critical condition with Canada’s first human case of H5 bird flu

The teen had no clear exposures to animals. No contacts have tested positive. | Continue reading


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New single-motor Polestar 3 SUV starts at $67,500, orders open now

The Swedish automaker has added an entry-level version of the Polestar 3. | Continue reading


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Seeking favor with Musk and Trump, advertisers plot return to X

Lack of moderation, spike in racist content had led to an exodus by brands. | Continue reading


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Revisting the Stanford Prison Experiment 50 years later

Ars chats with director Juliette Eisner and original study participants in new documentary series. | Continue reading


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This elephant figured out how to use a hose to shower

A younger rival may have learned how to sabotage those showers by disrupting water flow. | Continue reading


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New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike

FrontierMath's difficult questions remain unpublished so that AI companies can't train against it. | Continue reading


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For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce

"If we hold strong together, we will come through this." | Continue reading


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What if AI doesn’t just keep getting better forever?

New reports highlight fears of diminishing returns for traditional LLM training. | Continue reading


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Record labels unhappy with court win, say ISP should pay more for user piracy

Music companies appeal, demanding payment for each song instead of each album. | Continue reading


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Bitcoin hits record high as Trump vows to end crypto crackdown

Trump plans to shake up the SEC by installing pro-crypto leaders. | Continue reading


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