2024: The year AI drove everyone crazy

What do eating rocks, rat genitals, and Willy Wonka have in common? AI, of course. | Continue reading


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The 20 most-read stories of 2024 on Ars Technica

Ars looks back at the top stories of the year. | Continue reading


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Why The Long Kiss Goodnight is a great alt-Christmas movie

Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are sheer perfection as an amnesiac former assassin and PI who foil a terrorist plot. | Continue reading


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TV Technica 2024: Our picks for the best of TV

From wacky crime capers and dystopian video game adaptions to sweeping historical epics, 2024 had a little of everything | Continue reading


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Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes

Help increases our charity haul before the sweepstakes ends. | Continue reading


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The quest to save the world’s largest CRT TV from destruction

440-pound 1980s behemoth rescued from an Osaka restaurant days before demolition. | Continue reading


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$2,100 mechanical keyboard has 800 holes, NYC skyscraper looks

No, four figures does not get you a numpad. | Continue reading


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Flu surges in Louisiana as health department barred from promoting flu shots

Flu is rising around the country, but Louisiana is well ahead of the curve. | Continue reading


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Health care giant Ascension says 5.6 million patients affected in cyberattack

Intrusion caused medical errors and diversion of emergency services. | Continue reading


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How the worlds of Dune: Prophecy got their distinctive looks

Ars chats with Dune: Prophecy lead cinematographer Pierre Gill about color palettes, lighting, and other challenges. | Continue reading


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China’s plan to dominate legacy chips globally sparks US probe

Half of US companies don't know the origins of chips they buy, official said. | Continue reading


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Honda and Nissan to merge, Honda will take the lead

if the deal goes through it would create the world's third-largest OEM in 2026. | Continue reading


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How might NASA change under Trump? Here’s what is being discussed

"Elon get those rocket ships going because we want to reach Mars before the end of my term." | Continue reading


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Film Technica: Our favorite movies of 2024

This year's list features quite a bit of horror mixed in with the usual blockbuster fare—plus smaller hidden gems. | Continue reading


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Human versus autonomous car race ends before it begins

A2RL admits that this is a hard problem, and that's refreshing. | Continue reading


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Ars Technica’s top 20 video games of 2024

A relatively light year still had its fair share of interactive standouts. | Continue reading


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Green sea turtle gets relief from “bubble butt” syndrome thanks to 3D printing

Boat collision left Charlotte stranded at the surface and in danger of predation. | Continue reading


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Exploring an undersea terrain sculpted by glaciers and volcanoes

Researchers found a fossilized seascape while studying the impact of a volcanic eruption. | Continue reading


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12 days of OpenAI: The Ars Technica recap

Did OpenAI's big holiday event live up to the billing? | Continue reading


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Horizon: Zero Dawn gets the graphical remaster a modern classic deserves

The graphical upgrade a modern classic deserves. | Continue reading


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Rocket Report: ULA has a wild idea; Starliner crew will stay in orbit even longer

ULA's Vulcan rocket is at least several months away from flying again, and Stoke names its engine. | Continue reading


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OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models

o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks. | Continue reading


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Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first

Most owners still won't be refunded for the emotional support toy. | Continue reading


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Man who claims he invented bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1 trillion suit

UK judge issues 1-year suspended prison sentence as Wright hides in Asia. | Continue reading


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The next two FIFA Women’s World Cups will only air on Netflix

Let's hope Netflix fixes its live buffering problems beforehand. | Continue reading


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New AA-powered AirTag case promises 10-year lifespan

Aluminum AirTag case replaces coin cell with 2 AA Lithium batteries for extended lifespan. | Continue reading


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Google will apparently offer “AI Mode” right on its main search page

The most direct push for Google's Gemini chat so far. | Continue reading


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Automakers excoriated by Senators for fighting right-to-repair

OEMs also called out for selling data they collect on drivers. | Continue reading


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Louisiana bars health dept. from promoting flu, COVID, mpox vaccines: Report

Staff worried they were no longer helping people and the ban would lead to deaths. | Continue reading


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Google and OpenAI blitz December with so many AI releases, it’s hard to keep up

Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning. | Continue reading


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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network

Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses. | Continue reading


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Why AI language models choke on too much text

Compute costs scale with the square of the input size. That's not great. | Continue reading


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We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time

"Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind." | Continue reading


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Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is Google's take on so-called AI reasoning models. | Continue reading


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Home Assistant’s Voice Preview Edition is a little box with big privacy powers

Home Assistant’s voice device is a $60 box that’s both focused and evolving. | Continue reading


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As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank

Ingram Micro the latest to ditch VMware, but VMware's still making money. | Continue reading


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New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality

"Genesis" can compress training times from decades into hours using 3D worlds conjured from text. | Continue reading


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Crypto scammers posing as real brands on X are easily hacking YouTubers

Fighting game YouTuber now fighting Google over “monstrous” post-hack revenue loss. | Continue reading


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Stalker 2 has been enjoyable jank, but it’s also getting rapidly fixed

"A-Life" fixes will ensure even more randomness in an already odd fallout zone. | Continue reading


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US temporarily bans drones in parts of NJ, may use “deadly force” against aircraft

Drone sightings cause worry; FBI said it hadn't "identified anything anomalous." | Continue reading


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Intel patches performance for Core Ultra 200S desktop CPUs, promises more to come

Not as serious as the 13th/14th-gen voltage problems, but the fixes are similar. | Continue reading


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Here’s what we learned driving Audi’s new Q6 and SQ6 electric SUVs

Audi's mid-sized electric SUV is now on sale in the US, and we've tested it. | Continue reading


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The New Glenn rocket’s seven powerful engines may light up as soon as today

"Maybe, maybe, maybe today, maybe soon. I think it's very soon." | Continue reading


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Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index

Chemosphere cut from Web of Science, which calculates impact factors. | Continue reading


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A new, uncensored AI video model may spark a new AI hobbyist movement

Will Tencent's "open source" HunyuanVideo launch an at-home "Stable Diffusion" moment for uncensored AI video? | Continue reading


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Krypto steals the show in Superman teaser

Footage gives us glimpses of Lex Luthor, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl and Superman's plucky little white dog Kryto. | Continue reading


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Amazon faces holiday strike after refusing to bargain with warehouse workers

Amazon downplaying what workers declared is “largest strike” ever in the US. | Continue reading


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Solving renewable energy’s sticky storage problem

When the Sun doesn't shine and the wind is calm, humankind still needs power. | Continue reading


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