Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the abstract, prompting valuable insights or feeding confusion. Some are just plain weird. Ars published...

Get ready for some nostalgia. My Ars colleagues were kicking back at the Orbital HQ water cooler the other day, and—as gracefully aging gamers are wont to do—they began to...

“Harmful” While fluoride can kill bacteria, particularly at high levels, it’s used in oral health to inhibit the demineralization of tooth enamel while enhancing the remineralization of tooth surfaces, the...

This week, Spotify rushed to remove hundreds of obviously fake podcasts found to be marketing prescription drugs in violation of Spotify’s policies and, likely, federal law. On Thursday, Business Insider...

In that sense, the vulgar Vader situation creates a touchy dilemma for Epic Games and Disney, which likely invested substantially in this high-profile collaboration. While Epic acted swiftly in response,...

The rapid expansion of generative AI has changed the way Google and other tech giants design products, but most of the AI features you’ve used are running on remote servers...

In the boy’s fourth month, researchers were meeting with the Food and Drug Administration to discuss regulatory approval for a clinical trial—a trial where KJ would be the only participant....

We’ve been expecting it for a while, and now it’s here: OpenAI has introduced an agentic coding tool called Codex in research preview. The tool is meant to allow experienced...

Perhaps if I was more patient I’d have gotten closer to the EPA combined 27 mpg (8.7 L/100 km), too—instead the best I could average was 23 mpg (10.2 L/100...

How did reptilian things that looked something like crocodiles get to the Caribbean islands from South America millions of years ago? They probably walked. The existence of any prehistoric apex...

The system prompt being modified by an unauthorized person in pursuit of a ham-fisted political point very important to Elon Musk once already doesn’t seem like coincidence. It happening twice...

Further, Meta argued that the FTC did not show evidence that users sharing friends-and-family content were shown more ads. Meta noted that it “does not profit by showing more ads...

In the modern era, cars keep getting bigger and bigger between generations. Or at least, they’re certainly not getting smaller. That’s especially true in America, where bigger is always better...

When Nintendo took the wraps off the Switch 2 in early April, it announced that around a dozen first-party Switch games would be getting free updates that would add some...

When analyzing social media posts made by others, Grok is given the somewhat contradictory instructions to “provide truthful and based insights [emphasis added], challenging mainstream narratives if necessary, but remain...

If you build up a big area of plains on your board, you can drop your “Farm” piece in the middle, and it converts those plains into richer plains. Put...

All the news that’s fit to lift No thunder down under. Venus Aerospace tests its rotating detonation rocket engine in flight for the first time this week. Credit: Venus Aerospace...

This was unusual Payload fairing problems have caused a number of rocket failures, usually because they don’t jettison during launch, or only partially deploy, leaving too much extra weight on...

The FBI is warning people to be vigilant of an ongoing malicious messaging campaign that uses AI-generated voice audio to impersonate government officials in an attempt to trick recipients into...

The sudden spike in copycat attacks in France, Belgium, and Spain over the last few months suggests that crypto robbery as a tactic has caught the attention of organized crime....