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WindBorne says its balloons are compliant with all applicable airspace regulations.
Ruling holds that defeating end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp harms Meta's business.
"The president wants to make sure we beat the Chinese."
Sandboxing lessens hassle, but fire-and-forget agentic tools still pose risks.
Selected testers will have to sign an NDA and use a disguised case.
New method extracts desirable elements from waste magnets using less energy and acid.
Guppies are highly susceptible to the Ebbinghaus illusion. Ring doves? Not so much.
Sunday was not a day of rest for SpaceX.
Proxy firm says plan doesn't ensure that Musk's "focus and time remain on Tesla."
The Circuit of the Americas was packed for the US Grand Prix.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine.
Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.
"NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data."
What if point-and-click games weren't about the puzzles?
But Trump is pressuring the other five.
For bacterial vaginosis, partners are part of the problem—and the solution.
Amazon's Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.
Ars chats with co-authors Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal about their delightful new children's book.
Texas app law compared to checking IDs at bookstores and shopping malls.
Lawsuit accuses nudify apps of training on teen victims' images.
Preparations for the Artemis II mission continue despite the federal government shutdown.
Backup firm brings a unique, informed perspective to HDD failure rates.
A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin fossils.
Some races will be free as F1 TV moves from standalone streaming to Apple TV.
Riding high in IMSA but pulling out of WEC paints a complicated picture for the factory team.
AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.
Starlink, Kuiper, and the US military all saw additions to their mega-constellations this week.
Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification.
It's unclear if Kennedy will follow through, but he supports the conspiracy theory.
Copilot expands with an emphasis on creating and editing files, voice input.
Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.
Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAI's finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman.
Does your phone even have a Mind Space?
Music companies want ISPs to terminate repeat infringers or pay big damages.
The bundle starts at $15/month, compared to $21/month if purchased separately.
UZDoom fork promises to fix other top-down leadership problems with the decades-old mod.
“Cutthroat” OpenAI accused of exploiting Musk fight to intimidate and silence critics.
There's no big rush to bring SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google's hand.
"AI is one thing that, as a commander, it’s been very, very interesting for me."
Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative.
"We're trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy."
Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits.
Traumatized CDC has lost 33% of its workforce this year, union says.
Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.
Gov. Newsom signs broadband billing law hated by the cable industry.
But they're still unlikely to go on sale in the US.
Veo 3.1 is coming to the Gemini app and the Flow filmmaking tool.
Sam Altman claims new tools can detect mental distress while relaxing limits for adults.