Somewhere, a pig is catching some sweet air. In a rare move for a streaming service, Fubo announced today that it’s lowering the prices for some of its subscription plans....
Netflix’s $72B WB acquisition confounds the future of movie theaters, streaming
Netflix’s plans to own HBO Max, DC Comics, Harry Potter to face regulatory scrutiny. The bidding war is over, and Netflix has been declared the winner. After flirting with Paramount...
Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death
The culprit is a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, and it’s well known that it spreads among mammalian hosts via fleas, although it only rarely spills over to domestic animals and...
SteamOS vs. Windows on dedicated GPUs: It’s complicated, but Windows has an edge
Other results vary from game to game and from GPU to GPU. Borderlands 3, for example, performs quite a bit better on Windows than on SteamOS across all of our...
Without evidence, RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel tosses hep B vaccine recommendation
Retsef Levi, an operations management expert and ACIP member who expressed strong anti-vaccine views, said, “I think that the intention behind this [recommendation change is] that parents should carefully think...
Elon Musk’s X first to be fined under EU’s Digital Services Act
Elon Musk’s X became the first large online platform fined under the European Union’s Digital Services Act on Friday. The European Commission announced that X would be fined nearly $140...
Toyota’s new GR GT picks up where the 2000GT and Lexus LFA left off
There’s some Toyota news today that doesn’t involve the chairman wearing a MAGA hat. The Japanese automaker evidently decided it’s been too long since it flexed its engineering chops on...
Knight of the Seven Kingdoms trailer brings levity to Westeros
With House of the Dragon entering its third season, HBO is ready to debut a new spinoff series set in Game of Thrones’ Westeros: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,...
New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region
The new WMO report shows that the foundations of daily life across the Arab region, including farms, reservoirs, and aquifers that feed and sustain millions, are being pushed to the...
Rocket Report: Blunder at Baikonur; do launchers really need rocket engines?
The Department of the Air Force approves a new home in Florida for SpaceX’s Starship. South Korea’s Nuri 1 rocket is lifted vertical on its launch pad in this multi-exposure...
DeepSeek v3.2 Is Okay And Cheap But Slow
DeepSeek v3.2 is DeepSeek’s latest open model release with strong bencharks. Its paper contains some technical innovations that drive down cost. It’s a good model by the standards of open...
Congress warned that NASA’s current plan for Artemis “cannot work”
As for what to do about it, Griffin said legislators should end the present plan. “The Artemis III mission and those beyond should be canceled and we should start over,...
In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool
Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy...
Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private
Kohler is getting the scoop on people’s poop. A Dekoda smart toilet camera. Credit: Kohler Kohler is facing backlash after an engineer pointed out that the company’s new smart toilet...
CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it’s doing, delays big vote
Today’s meeting was chaotic and included garbage anti-vaccine presentations. Dr. Robert Malone speaks during a meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at CDC Headquarters on December...
Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive
A massive study of political persuasion shows AIs have, at best, a weak effect. Roughly two years ago, Sam Altman tweeted that AI systems would be capable of superhuman persuasion...
Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.
When Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine hardware last month, some eagle-eyed gamers may have been surprised to see that the official spec sheet lists support for HDMI 2.0 output,...
ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says
A stalker’s “best friend” Podcaster faces up to 70 years and a $3.5 million fine for ChatGPT-linked stalking. ChatGPT allegedly validated the worst impulses of a wannabe influencer accused of...
OnePlus 15 finally gets FCC clearance after government shutdown delay—preorders live
In the Ars review of the OnePlus 15, we were floored by the phone’s incredible battery life and super-fast charging. The device’s other performance characteristics are similarly speedy, as is...
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications. The language emerged from...