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With developer verification, Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy
Questions remain as Google prepares to lock down Android app distribution in the name of security.
Ryan Whitwam
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Trump FCC’s equal-time crackdown doesn’t apply equally—or at all—to talk radio
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s unequal enforcement of the equal-time rule.
Jon Brodkin
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New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.
Dan Goodin
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Inside the quixotic team trying to build an entire world in a 20-year-old game
Stories and lessons learned from an impossibly large community modding project.
Daniel Larlham, Jr.
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The first cars bold enough to drive themselves
Quevedo’s telekino of 1904 was the first step on the road to autonomous Waymos.
Larry Printz
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn’t bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
Jon Brodkin
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Zero grip, maximum fun: A practical guide to getting into amateur ice racing
Where we’re racing, we don’t need roads.
Tim Stevens
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Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true
Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.
Dan Goodin
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Sideways on the ice, in a supercar: Stability control is getting very good
To test stability control, it helps to have a wide-open space with very low grip.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem sued for coercing platforms into censoring ICE posts.
Ashley Belanger
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We let Chrome’s Auto Browse agent surf the web for us—here’s what happened
Auto Browse is capable of some impressive things, but it can also crash and burn spectacularly.
Ryan Whitwam
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America, it’s time to think beyond leather for luxury car seats
Some brands are already ahead of the curve, while others leave the US in the cold.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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NIH head, still angry about COVID, wants a second scientific revolution
Can we pander to MAHA, re-litigate COVID, and improve science at the same time?
John Timmer
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Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea
Production source says it takes “weeks” to produce just minutes of usable video.
Kyle Orland
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So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it
Some semi-unhinged musings on where LLMs fit into my life—and how I’ll keep using them.
Lee Hutchinson
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Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra review: Intel’s best laptop CPU in a very long time
Intel manages big boosts to CPU and GPU speed without blowing up battery life.
Andrew Cunningham
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Inside Nvidia’s 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device ever
“Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves.”
Ryan Whitwam
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Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think?
We have no proof that AI models suffer, but Anthropic acts like they might for training purposes.
Benj Edwards
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Ryzen 9850X3D review: AMD’s bragging-rights gaming CPU gets more to brag about
The tradeoffs in the $499 9850X3D make it hard to get excited about.
Andrew Cunningham
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Former astronaut on lunar spacesuits: “I don’t think they’re great right now”
“These are just the difficulties of designing a spacesuit for the lunar environment.”
Stephen Clark
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2026 Lucid Air Touring review: This feels like a complete car now
It’s efficient, easy to live with, and smooth to drive.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test.
Did Apple make the right choice in partnering with Google for Siri’s AI features?
Kyle Orland
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10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.
Benj Edwards
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This may be the grossest eye pic ever—but the cause is what’s truly horrifying
Hypervirulent germ nearly destroys man, invading brain and blowing out an eye.
Beth Mole
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The difficulty of driving an EV in the “most beautiful race in the world”
Jet lag and charging added plenty of complications to this regularity road rally.
Michael Teo Van Runkle
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Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.
Dan Goodin
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The most fascinating monitors at CES 2026
Big sizes, big resolution, and big ideas.
Scharon Harding
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Is Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.
“That level of openness and transparency is exactly what should be expected of NASA.”
Eric Berger
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Here are the launches and landings we’re most excited about in 2026
A lot could happen in space this year, but let’s get real about what actually will.
Stephen Clark
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Our annual power ranking of US rocket companies has changes near the top and bottom
There are some fresh faces entering the rankings this year.
Eric Berger
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Film Technica: Our top picks for the best films of 2025
Streamers made a strong showing this year, as did horror. Big tentpoles, superhero sagas mostly fell flat.
Jennifer Ouellette
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From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025
In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.
Benj Edwards
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The 10 best vehicles Ars Technica drove in 2025
Of all the cars we’ve driven and reviewed this year, these are our picks.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Big Tech basically took Trump’s unpredictable trade war lying down
From Apple gifting a gold statue to the US taking a stake in Intel.
Ashley Belanger
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Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025
A mix of expected sequels and out-of-nowhere indie gems made 2025 a joy.
Kyle Orland
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