Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles
Civil liberty concerns spur FAA to revise drone no-fly zones near ICE vehicles.
Jeremy Hsu
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Meet the players who lost big money on Peter Molyneux’s failed Legacy
After millions in NFT sales, the hyped “play to earn” game was effectively dead in weeks.
Kyle Orland
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Six things I’ll remember when I think about Tim Cook’s version of Apple
Under Cook, Apple became hugely successful, if not always surprising.
Andrew Cunningham
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Investors lost billions on Trump’s memecoin. Another gala won’t fix that.
If Dems take Congress, Trump may face reckoning for “pay-to-play” memecoin galas.
Ashley Belanger
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Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support
How does HEVC implementation really work these days?
Scharon Harding
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Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
Here’s which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.
Dan Goodin
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What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?
For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks to be a blind alley.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain
LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.
Scott K. Johnson
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The Moon is already on Google Maps—did Artemis II really tell us anything new?
“I think the biggest value here is the PR. I mean, it’s getting the public excited.”
Stephen Clark
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Finally, Artemis delivers some exceptional, high-quality photos of the Moon
The Moon, the Earth, and the Sun—oh what fun!
Eric Berger
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NASA’s Moon ship and rocket seem to be working well, so what about the landers?
Lori Glaze: “We have seen real commitment to try and do that… from both Blue and from SpaceX.”
Eric Berger
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New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.
Dan Goodin
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Launch day has arrived for NASA’s Artemis II mission—here’s what to expect
“It’ll go when the engines light at T-0.”
Stephen Clark
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This is my third Orion launch, but it feels totally different
The first two launches of Orion felt hollow, but NASA is finally on a better course.
Eric Berger
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No one is happy with NASA’s new idea for private space stations
“It reminds me of sort of Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football.”
Eric Berger
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Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs
Great performance for the price, if you ignore the price of RAM, SSDs, and GPUs.
Andrew Cunningham
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Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?
“This is not physically impossible; it’s only a question of whether this is a rational thing.”
Eric Berger
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A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it
Katalyst Space Technologies must launch the Swift rescue mission by this summer.
Stephen Clark
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Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?
Ars speaks with a linguist about the ease with which Grace and Rocky communicate.
Lee Hutchinson
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Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming. Here’s how it works.
On-device face scans and cross-platform age keys decrease privacy risks, but trust issues abound.
Ashley Belanger
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Private and performant
If you want to spend $1,300 on a phone, it might as well be this one.
Ryan Whitwam
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A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites
“I realized that if something went wrong up there, things might go very badly down here.”
Eric Berger
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M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody
The M5 MacBook Air is a minor upgrade, but minor upgrades add up over time.
Andrew Cunningham
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How I streamed my off-road Miata race using Starlink and StarStream
This satellite streaming technology transforms off-road racing for fans and teams.
Emme Hall
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Apple MacBook Neo review: Can a Mac get by with an iPhone’s processor inside?
8GB of RAM is a bummer, but this $599 laptop cuts most of the right corners.
Andrew Cunningham
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“It doesn’t feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US
Stories of border issues lead to pervasive travel fears across the worldwide industry.
Kyle Orland
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Which of these two arcades is the “world largest”—and does it matter?
While semantics count for some, gamers win either way.
Tim Stevens
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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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