2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric

Toyota's everyday small SUV should rarely require trips to the gas station.

Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.

Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.

We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere

If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind.

OnePlus ends phone releases in US and Europe, further reducing smartphone choice

OnePlus promises to continue supporting the phones it's already released.

Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.

"We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like constellation."

Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.

Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds

NTSB findings back Elon Musk's claim that driver manually overrode FSD.

Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback

Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as a GPS alternative.

Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there

Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.

Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon

While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.

Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"

The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead.

Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation

Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.

Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.

FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs

FCC chairman claims power to repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.

In memoriam: 7 of our favorite Sam Neill films

The actor, who starred in 1993's Jurassic Park, died Monday in Sydney, Australia, at the age of 78.

Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn

With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the court's full antitrust remedies.

OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?

The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.

A most improbable astronaut just went to space

"I pretty much, at that point in time, gave up on being an astronaut."

How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

"The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."

Sotheby's big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending science

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils.

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.

Trump admin puts Americans in Congo on "do-not-board" list, barring return

Citizens must now spend 21 days in a third country before they are allowed to come home.

Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans

Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.

US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time

US military’s drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.

These painted e-tattoos could be the future of wearable biosensors

Conductive ink is painted directly onto the skin in colorful custom designs, drying into working electrodes.

Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI

The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.

New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry

New York’s data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.

Taco Bell eyed in explosive diarrheal outbreak; leafy greens suspected

Health officials have not confirmed a source yet—and there may be multiple sources.