Planet Labs, one of the world’s leading commercial satellite imaging companies, said Friday it is placing a hold on releasing imagery of some parts of the Middle East as a...
Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons
Until 1970, the US dumped an estimated 17,000 tons of unspent chemical weapons from World War I and II off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean—and that disposal decision continues...
Google’s new command-line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data
The command line is hot again. For some people, command lines were never not hot, of course, but it’s becoming more common now in the age of AI. Google launched...
Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances
Coruna is also notable for its use by three distinct hacking groups. Google first detected its use in February of last year in an operation conducted by a “customer of...
Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target
The binary asteroid’s orbit around the Sun was affected by the impact. Italy’s LICIACube spacecraft snapped this image of asteroids Didymos (lower left) and Dimorphos (upper right) a few minutes...
How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery
The official records were a bit of a mess, to say the least, but the ensuing investigation revealed that while the cemetery had space for 130,000 graves, between 140,000 and...
Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI
Musk can’t convince judge public doesn’t care about where AI training data comes from. Elon Musk’s xAI has lost its bid for a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily blocked...
Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials
Anti-vaccine activist and current Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has worked hard to villainize infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, even writing a conspiracy-laden book lambasting the former director of...
Climate change sucks, but at least it won’t kill your EV battery
The good news is that technological progress more than offsets the effect of a warming world, even (hopefully) extreme scenarios like warming of 4° C. Those older batteries, which have...
Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance’s Chinese apps
In recent years, however, Apple has been developing more sophisticated mechanisms to identify where an App Store user is physically located. In 2023, the tech outlet 9to5Mac reported that Apple...
MS exec: Microsoft’s next console will play “Xbox and PC games”
Last summer, we here at Ars made the argument that the company’s next Xbox console should give up the walled garden approach and just run Windows already. Now, newly named...
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are “unreviewable,” DOJ lawyer tells judge
US Department of Justice lawyer Isaac Belfer argued that Kennedy has the broad authority to make all of the changes he has already made and more. He claimed that the...
Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems
Based on over 20,000 reports, Amazon appears to be experiencing an outage. According to Downdetector, reports of problems started increasing at 1: 41 pm ET today. By 2: 26 pm,...
OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability
Additionally, there are improvements to visual understanding; it can now more carefully analyze images up to 10.24 million pixels, or up to a 6,000-pixel maximum dimension. OpenAI also claims responses...
The Boys S5 trailer tees up a bloody final season
In the fifth and final season, it’s Homelander’s world, completely subject to his erratic, egomaniacal whims. Hughie, Mother’s Milk, and Frenchie are imprisoned in a “Freedom Camp.” Annie struggles to...
Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation
On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced that a large collection of tech companies had signed on to what it’s calling the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. By agreeing, the initial signatories—Amazon, Google,...
Nerve damage, energy management, and Apple TV: F1 in 2026 starts today
Drivers aren’t happy about energy management, and one team won’t finish the race. Credit: Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images Later this evening—Friday morning local time—the new 1.6 L V6 engines that power...
Lanterns teaser swaps superhero hijinks for gritty realism
James Gunn and Peter Safran injected a much-needed shot of levity into the DC Universe when they took over the franchise and launched their “Gods and Monsters” chapter. But they’re...
Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations
Nominally, NASA plans to have one or more of these companies operating a commercial space station in low-Earth orbit by 2030. This is the date at which the US space...
Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit “may not have been my wisest”
“This could present you with an opportunity to revisit price,” the banker wrote. “It may not be a costless ask, as you will have to be perceived as being willing...
