The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC’s news distortion policy
FCC invokes 1960s-era policy to punish media after decades of minimal enforcement.
Jon Brodkin
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Features
Hands-on with the Switch 2: It’s the Switch, too
It's bigger, it's more powerful, and it has some weird Nintendo control gimmicks.
Kyle Orland
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152
Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
"Hey, this is a very precarious situation we're in."
Eric Berger
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394
Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs
Lawsuits and allegations are creating doubt around quantum dot TVs' use of QDs.
Scharon Harding
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134
Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini
Hacking LLMs has always been more art than science. A new attack on Gemini could change that.
Dan Goodin
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After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers
Waymo has been in dozens of crashes. Most were not Waymo's fault.
Timothy B. Lee
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392
Does all intelligent life face a Great Filter?
The Universe should be full of alien civilizations. Why can’t we find any?
Paul Sutter
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581
Can we make AI less power-hungry? These researchers are working on it.
As demand surges, figuring out the performance of proprietary models is half the battle.
Jacek Krywko
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Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon
Weeks later, Sonnet's "reasoning" model is struggling with a game designed for children.
Kyle Orland
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234
Here’s the secret to how Firefly was able to nail its first lunar landing
Darkness fell over Mare Crisium, ending a daily dose of dazzling images from the Moon.
Stephen Clark
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77
Old Bolt, new tricks: Making an EV into a backup power station with an inverter
Using a custom kit to make a budget EV offer some emergency power.
Kevin Purdy
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111
The Wheel of Time is back for season three, and so are our weekly recaps
Two WoT book readers dive back into Amazon's increasingly divergent adaptation.
Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson
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122
Scoop: Origami measuring spoon incites fury after 9 years of Kickstarter delay hell
The curious case of the missing Kickstarter spoons.
Ashley Belanger
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166
Space Force wants six kinds of space weapons—including anti-satellite lasers
Controlling space means "employing kinetic and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities."
Stephen Clark
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123
Apple M4 MacBook Air review: I have no notes
The only things missing from these Airs are some Pro-only bells and whistles.
Andrew Cunningham
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393
Better than the real thing? Spark 2 packs 33 amp sims into $300 Bluetooth speaker
Digital amp modeling goes very, very portable.
Nate Anderson
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106
iPhone 16e review: The most expensive cheap iPhone yet
The iPhone 16e rethinks—and prices up—the basic iPhone.
Samuel Axon
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211
AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: RDNA 4 fixes a lot of AMD’s problems
For $549 and $599, AMD comes close to knocking out Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070.
Andrew Cunningham
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268
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: No, it’s not “4090 performance at $549”
It's not all bad news, but in many ways, this is barely an upgrade.
Andrew Cunningham
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159
AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence
We already have an example of general intelligence, and it doesn't look like AI.
John Timmer
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197
Elon Musk fans truly believe he can make Dogecoin the currency of Earth
Dogecoin Foundation strikes deals to mainstream the popular memecoin.
Ashley Belanger
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391
The Moon’s next robotic visitor is lining up for landing this weekend
The first lunar lander built by Firefly Aerospace is on quite a trip, and has the selfies to prove it.
Stephen Clark
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66
11 standouts from Steam Next Fest’s thousands of free game demos
Let Ars help you find some needles in Steam's massive haystack of game trials.
Kyle Orland and Kevin Purdy
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56
ISPs fear wave of state laws after New York’s $15 broadband mandate
When the FCC isn't regulating, states have more power to impose broadband laws.
Jon Brodkin
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171
Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP
"There is very little incremental utility. Let’s go to Mars."
Eric Berger
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Dozens of things you can do to clean up a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2 and Edge
If you start using Windows 11 this year, you'll want to know how to clean it up.
Andrew Cunningham
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206
Review: Asus’ ROG Flow Z13 tablet takes the asterisk off integrated GPUs
Performance like an RTX 4060, but it's packed into a slightly heavy Surface-like.
Kevin Purdy
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106
Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits. They could use help.
Mods ask Reddit for tools as generative AI gets more popular and inconspicuous.
Scharon Harding
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163
After 50 years, Ars staffers pick their favorite Saturday Night Live sketches
"Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball."
Eric Berger
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193
Avowed review: Wait, are we the baddies?
Obsidian's new fantasy RPG asks you to be the unwelcome face of a hated occupying force.
Kyle Orland
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149
An update on highly anticipated—and elusive—Micro LED displays
New (and cheaper) Micro LED TVs have been announced.
Scharon Harding
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134
The Ranger XP Kinetic is the ultimate electric UTV—at a high price
This mega utility vehicle is a big ask on multiple fronts.
Tim Stevens
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104
CenturyLink nightmares: Users keep asking Ars for help with multi-month outages
Three more tales of CenturyLink failing to fix outages until hearing from Ars.
Jon Brodkin
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150
As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders
Ars staffers take aim at some of the web's worst predatory practices.
Ars Staff
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Civilization VII review: A major overhaul solves Civ’s oldest problems
Not all changes will be popular, but it's a great launching point for a new age.
Samuel Axon
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250
The Severance writer and cast on corporate cults, sci-fi, and more
Cult documentaries, science fiction classics are named as the show's influences.
Samuel Axon
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