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100+by Ashley Belanger / 4h
After the Trump administration confirmed a rumor that the US is planning to buy a 10 percent stake in Intel , US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) came forward Wednesday to voice support for the highly unusual plan, finding rare common ground with Donald Trump. According to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the plan would see the US disbursing approved CHIPS Act grants only after acquiring non-voti
46by Andrew Cunningham / 5h
Sony will join Microsoft and Nintendo in raising US prices across its entire game console lineup , the company announced today. Pricing for all current versions of the PlayStation 5 console will increase by $50 starting tomorrow. The price of the PS5 Digital Edition will increase from $450 to $500; the standard PS5 will increase from $500 to $550; and the PS5 Pro will increase from $700 to $750.
21by Ryan Whitwam / 5h
Google has shifted its product timeline in 2025. Android 16 dropped in May , an earlier release aimed at better lining up with smartphone launches. Google's annual hardware refresh is also happening a bit ahead of the traditional October window. The company has unveiled its thoroughly leaked 2025 Pixel phones and watches, and you can preorder most of them today. The new Pixel 10 phones don't look
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Climate threats disrupt US drug supply
by Beth Mole / 2h
When Hurricane Helene ravaged western North Carolina in September 2024, one of its many victims was a manufacturing plant that made intravenous fluids. The sterile IV solutions produced in the plant are essential supplies for hospitals and other medical facilities, which use them in various treatments, from rehydration to drug delivery and kidney dialysis. And the plant damaged by Helene—Baxter I
by Sandy Ong, Knowable Magazine / 4h
At first glance, Nam-Joon Cho’s lab at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University looks like your typical research facility—scientists toiling away, crowded workbenches, a hum of machinery in the background. But the orange-yellow stains on the lab coats slung on hooks hint at a less-usual subject matter under study. The powdery stain is pollen: microscopic grains containing male reproductive ce
August 2025 Windows updates released
by Andrew Cunningham / 5h
When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you're inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here —generally they affect lesser-used features or obscure edge cases, but every once in a while you run into something bigger and more disruptive. August's updates have introduced a couple of more noticeable problems. The firs
by Rupendra Brahambhatt / 5h
If you were to design the strangest diet possible, eating nothing but ants and termites would probably make the shortlist. Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly gone down this path—not once or twice, but at least a dozen times. From anteaters and aardvarks to pangolins and aardwolves, the so-called myrmecophages (animals that feed on ants and termites) have
by Stephen Clark / 5h
US defense officials have long worried that China's Guowang satellite network might give the Chinese military access to the kind of ubiquitous connectivity US forces now enjoy with SpaceX's Starlink network. It turns out the Guowang constellation could offer a lot more than a homemade Chinese alternative to Starlink's high-speed consumer-grade broadband service. China has disclosed little informa
by Andrew Cunningham / 9h
Asus and Microsoft will be launching their ROG Xbox Ally series of handheld gaming PCs starting October 16, according to an Asus announcement that went out today. An Xbox-branded extension of Asus' existing ROG Ally handheld line, the basic ROG Xbox Ally and more powerful ROG Xbox Ally X, both run a version of Windows 11 Home that's been redesigned with a controller-first Xbox-style user interfac
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AAP diverges from US vaccine guidance
200+by Beth Mole / 1d
In a clear rebuke to US health secretary and zealous anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday released its own evidence-based vaccination schedule for children —a task typically left to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its trusted advisory committee. The AAP has been among the most assertive medical groups to push back on the ant
Fallout season 2 trailer upcoming
24by Jennifer Ouellette / 1d
Prime Video has dropped an extended teaser for the much-anticipated second season of Fallout , widely considered to be among the best TV adaptations of a gaming franchise. In our 2024 year-end roundup , Ars senior editor Samuel Axon wrote that the first season gave us "a specific cocktail of tongue-in-cheek humor, sci-fi campiness, strong themes, great characters, and visceral violence [that] cam
Apple integrates Claude into Xcode
by Samuel Axon / 1d
The latest Xcode beta contains clear signs that Apple plans to bring Anthropic's Claude and Opus large language models into the integrated development environment (IDE), expanding on features already available using Apple's own models or OpenAI's ChatGPT. Apple enthusiast publication 9to5Mac "found multiple references to built-in support for Anthropic accounts," including in the "Intelligence" me
SpaceX advocates redirect broadband funds
200+by Jon Brodkin / 1d
Starlink operator SpaceX is continuing its fight against state plans to expand fiber broadband availability. After saying the Trump administration should deny a Virginia proposal , SpaceX is taking the same approach in a fight against Louisiana. SpaceX made its view known to the Louisiana Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity in a filing , which was reported yesterday by PCMag. SpaceX
21by Elizabeth Rayne / 1d
Ancient rituals and customs often leave behind obvious archaeological evidence. From the impeccably preserved mummies of Egypt to psychoactive substance residue that remained at the bottom of a clay vessel for thousands of years, it seems as if some remnants of the past, even if not all are immediately visible, have defied the ravages of time. Chewing betel nuts is a cultural practice in parts of
52by Emily Mullin, WIRED.com / 1d
A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according to an announcement Monday by the Texas Department of State Health Services. The agency says it has been more than 42 days since a new case was reported in any of the counties that previously showed evidence of ongoing transmission. The outbreak has contributed to the worst year for measles cases in the United
47by John Timmer / 1d
It's pretty obvious at this point that the Trump administration is waging a full-scale assault on US science. It has proposed budgets that would be catastrophic , stopped the flow of research funds to a number of universities, and sought to exert unprecedented political control over what funding is distributed. Money has been repeatedly delayed as grants have been checked and rechecked for ideolo
65by Jon Brodkin / 1d
The UK has dropped its demand that Apple create a backdoor for government security officials to access encrypted data, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard wrote in a post on X last night that she has "been working closely with our partners in the UK... to ensure Americans' private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are prote
by Jennifer Ouellette / 1d
Serious badminton players are constantly exploring different techniques to give them an edge over opponents. One of the latest innovations is the spin serve, a devastatingly effective method in which a player adds a pre-spin just before the racket contacts the shuttlecock (aka the birdie). It's so effective—some have called it " impossible to return "—that the Badminton World Federation (BWF) ban
25by Jonathan M. Gitlin / 1d
There's a new Nissan Leaf coming later this year. The third of its kind to bear the name, it sounds like an appealing upgrade. Smaller than the current model on the outside but with more room inside, it's also more efficient and finally uses a liquid-cooled battery. But we knew all that back at the start of summer . What we didn't know then was how much the Leaf will cost. As we noted back in Jun
29by Benj Edwards / 1d
In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world's most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park —and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre search field near Murfreesboro sits atop an ancient volcanic pipe that erupted roughly 100 million years ago. That eruption brought diamonds that formed deep wit
Aug 18, 2025
Telecoms fined for location data
100by Jon Brodkin / 2d
A federal appeals court rejected T-Mobile's attempt to overturn $92 million in fines for selling customer location information to third-party firms. The Federal Communications Commission last year fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon , saying the carriers illegally shared access to customers' location information without consent and did not take reasonable measures to protect that sensitive data aga
32by Ashley Belanger / 2d
Media Matters for America (MMFA)—a nonprofit that Elon Musk accused of sparking a supposedly illegal ad boycott on X —won its bid to block a sweeping Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe that appeared to have rushed to silence Musk's foe without ever adequately explaining why the government needed to get involved. In her opinion granting MMFA's preliminary injunction, US District Judge Sparkle L.
500+by Eric Berger / 2d
In recent weeks, the secretive Chinese space program has reported some significant milestones in developing its program to land astronauts on the lunar surface by the year 2030. On August 6, the China Manned Space Agency successfully tested a high-fidelity mockup of its 26-ton "Lanyue" lunar lander. The test, conducted outside of Beijing, used giant tethers to simulate lunar gravity as the vehicl
White House avoids strict pesticide regulations
200+by Beth Mole / 2d
The Trump administration's plans to improve Americans' health will include a push to review the safety of electromagnetic radiation, echoing long-held conspiracy theories and falsehoods about Wi-Fi and 5G touted by health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On Friday, Politico obtained a draft version of the "Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy," a highly anticipated re
Raspberry Pi releases 5-inch touchscreen
by Andrew Cunningham / 2d
The folks at Raspberry Pi have announced a new touchscreen component for people using boards to create miniature touchscreen appliances: The 5-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is a 720p IPS multi-touch screen that's natively supported by the Raspberry Pi OS and includes mounting holes on the back to make it easy to build integrated all-in-one devices. The new screen will cost $40 and is availabl
by Samuel Axon / 2d
Ostensibly, C:\ArsGames is to some extent about actually driving a few game purchases, but in reality it's mostly an excuse for me and my colleagues to wax nostalgic about the games that were formative for us. Case in point: This entry in our ongoing series with GOG is about a game that's completely free. I think Ars can withstand this tiny revenue shortfall for the sake of peak nostalgia! There
by Andrew Cunningham / 2d
Sometimes I go longer than I intend without writing an updated version of our PC building guide . And while I could just claim to be too busy to spend hours on Newegg or Amazon or other sites digging through dozens of near-identical parts, the lack of updates usually correlates with "times when building a desktop PC is actually a pain in the ass." Through most of 2025, fluctuating and inflated gr
Aug 17, 2025
33by Jennifer Ouellette / 2d
Every dog owner knows that canines are natural scavengers and that vigilance is required to ensure they don't eat toxic substances. But accidental ingestions still happen—like the Chihuahua who vets discovered had somehow managed to ingest a significant quantity of cocaine, according to a case study published in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science. There have been several studies investig
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