I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.

Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name

Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

Cancellations have accelerated.

"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced

"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."

Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.

Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary.

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.

Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut

"From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship."

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

Kennedy and his allies have a history of downplaying vaccine-preventable deaths.

Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?

Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.

Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them

"It just felt like the right thing to do"

Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago

"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.

How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.

An EV that sounds like a 6.75 L V8: A ride in the Bentley Torcal

The electric Torcal will be Bentley's entry model and cost less than a Bentayga.

RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances

A dashing pirate, a butler, a killer clown, an alien mad scientist in drag—the man had range.

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead

Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"

Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.

Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions

The bishops' snub comes as the state continues to attack vaccines.