Social media firms abandon fight against Australia law banning under-16 users
Social media platforms have agreed to comply with Australia’s social media ban for users under...
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AMD shores up its budget laptop CPUs by renaming more years-old silicon
As newer, more efficient silicon manufacturing processes have gotten more expensive and difficult to develop,...
Trump’s UCLA deal: Pay us $1B+, and we can still cut your grants again
On Friday, the California Supreme Court ordered the University of California system to release the...
Porsche’s 2026 911 Turbo S is a ballistic, twin-turbo, 701-horsepower monster
Porsche provided flights from Albany, New York, to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could...
AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find
Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews, the world at large has been...
25 years, one website: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station
With the milestone just days away, you are likely to hear this week that there...
F1 in Mexico City: We have a new championship leader
Mexico City is one of the more unusual places that Formula 1 races, and it’s...
Melissa set to be the strongest hurricane to ever strike Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa will make landfall in southern Jamaica less than 24 hours from now, and...
New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports
Businesses are increasingly being deceived by employees using artificial intelligence for an age-old scam: faking...
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
“Opening locks” might not sound like scintillating social media content, but Trevor McNally has turned...
Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change
For millennia, some of the world’s largest filter-feeding whales, including humpbacks, fin whales, and blue...
Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem
Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling...
Man takes herbal pain quackery, nearly dies, spends months in hospital
A 61-year-old man in California is lucky to be alive after a combination of herbal...
The Android-powered Boox Palma 2 Pro fits in your pocket, but it’s not a phone
Digital reading devices like the Kindle have existed for almost 20 years, and the standard...
Tech billionaires are now shaping the militarization of American cities
Yesterday, Donald Trump announced on social media that he had been planning to “surge” troops...