Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs

The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.

Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history

"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.

Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis

What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?

Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution

Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains.

VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event

Also: Ahsoka S2 teaser, Doomsday trailer, news about MCU's X-Men and Star Wars: Starfighter

Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles

"Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."

So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year

Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.

Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.

First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.

State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers

Kalshi ordered to stop offering bets in Washington, must implement geofencing.

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.

Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.

Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?

The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.

Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play

Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play.

R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision

Chris Carter chats with Ars about the film he originally wanted to make—and why it's more relevant than ever.

Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response

Senator Warren questions whether Taylor Farms' influence swayed Trump admin.

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin's two-pad plan

"We’ve never seen launch capacity so constrained."

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price

Samsung didn't have to change much this year because its hardware is just that good.

Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder

Czinger used topological design and additive manufacturing to make the brakes.

US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer

Study finds wait times for cancer surgeries hit 10-year high.

Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals

Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyber attacks.

Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship

Will it be the VSS... Horizon, Explorer, Ascend or Apeiron?

Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game

Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.

Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say

Flock to lock out cops who stalk exes, but agencies can still hide abuse.

Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed

"I've lost trust ..."

The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop

Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.