Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program

NASA's cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn't include the helicopters. | Continue reading


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Private group wants to launch "cheapest possible" mission to Alpha Centauri

"We could really be facing the great filter." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 days ago

The Bentley Supersports: A stripped-out engineer's indulgence

It's the lightest Bentley in 85 years. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 days ago

Trump admin shelves Cyclospora research despite record-breaking outbreak

The CDC has tallied nearly 30,000 confirmed and probable cases this summer. | Continue reading


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Get in on the Ars community that doesn’t fit beneath an article

You've read the stories. Now check out our forums. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 days ago

Review: Coyote vs. Acme is an unabashed love letter to Looney Tunes

Director Dave Green's live action/animated hybrid captures smart, subversive weirdness of the classic cartoons. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 days ago

Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed"

Trump furious at NBC's Kristen Welker for saying he had mixed results in primary endorsements. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 days ago

“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 days ago

Raindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds

Finding reveals an overlooked way that water can damage surfaces. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 days ago

Think twice before installing this device promising free movies

In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.” | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government

Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules

Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

"We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our largest survey." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.

Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 days ago

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 days ago

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name

Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

Cancellations have accelerated. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced

"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 9 days ago

Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut

"From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 10 days ago

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

Kennedy and his allies have a history of downplaying vaccine-preventable deaths. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?

Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them

"It just felt like the right thing to do" | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago

"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

An EV that sounds like a 6.75 L V8: A ride in the Bentley Torcal

The electric Torcal will be Bentley's entry model and cost less than a Bentayga. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances

A dashing pirate, a butler, a killer clown, an alien mad scientist in drag—the man had range. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"

Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago

Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions

The bishops' snub comes as the state continues to attack vaccines. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 11 days ago