Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought

Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.

Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse

Survey of 2,018 IT heads at big firms points to a lack of leverage.

Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3

Tesla’s once-booming energy storage business also shrunk in Q3 2026.

The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world

Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.

RIP BioWare: EA shuts down storied RPG studio after over three decades

Next Mass Effect project canceled as parent company lays off 400.

OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity

Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.

Report: Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, then blamed it on Trump

Musk and Trump both denied ordering Starlink slowdown. WSJ reports it was Musk.

Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits

Trump’s EPA can't unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.

Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic.

OS operators throwing out that data is "unlikely," research author tells Ars.

SpaceX to attempt Starship catch on next flight, with eye on rapid cadence increase

"We have had significant constructive engagement with the FAA."

The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using

OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.

Review: Carrie is a triumphant remix with one major flaw

Mike Flanagan's re-imagining of Stephen King's classic is well worth watching.

The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026

Flipping through the highlights in and around Pinball Expo 2026.

PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently

Unconfirmed report claims PHP2Shell exploit remotely executes code on PHP sites.

Merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a "good idea," Musk says

"I do think there's a lot of merit to combining the companies."

Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babies

Guinea-Bissau police said hepatitis B vaccine doses were taken as part of an investigation.

Microsoft reportedly projects $1,200 to $1,800 price for 2028 Project Helix

Xbox maker is also apparently planning its own gaming handheld for next year.

JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service

A lifetime ad-free subscription is available.

Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash

Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.

Gemini's Personal Intelligence is coming to cars

It's probably time to audit your Gemini settings.

OpenBSD 8.0 arrives with security record still intact

OpenBSD 8.0 lands with Intel Arc support, ARM64 hibernation, and 64-vCPU guests

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

TP-Link tries to appease Trump admin with pledge to assemble routers in US

TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US despite rivals getting FCC approvals.

Does anyone actually want to win the medium-lift race in the United States?

Ars Technica is here to help with a guide to the medium-lift space race.

Ukraine’s drone rescue of wounded soldier puts much touted idea into practice

Ukraine’s latest drone innovation may boost bleak odds of evacuating casualties.

Quantum error correction goes well beyond breakeven

A demo of error-corrected qubits shows big reductions in errors as they grow.

Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs

Meta argues nobody “decided” to pirate books to train AI.

Polestar tries to quantify what it’s like to drive a performance car

Drivers had electrodes strapped to their heads as they tested EVs on track.

Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

A single query is all that's required to find thousands of conversations listed by title.

Visiting Slate’s first showroom as its $25,000 electric truck nears production

Slate's first showroom sells the promise. Mass production will determine the rest.