This is what a supercar was like a century ago
MONTEREY, Calif.—Elsewhere on these pages, you can find our first track drive of the new Bentley Supersports. Shorn of its hybrid system and stripped back to rear-wheel drive, it’s not only the …
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It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed really well
Perhaps the biggest question going into the Artemis II mission this spring was how the heat shield at the base of the spacecraft would perform during reentry through Earth’s atmosphere. The ablative …
Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program
For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA has no firm plans to send any new landers or rovers to Mars. Instead, the agency's near-term focus at the red planet …
Private group wants to launch "cheapest possible" mission to Alpha Centauri
There are, by various estimates, several trillion planets within the local group of galaxies including our own Milky Way. Many of these are within the habitable zone of their stars. So if …
The Bentley Supersports: A stripped-out engineer's indulgence
Bentley provided flights from Washington, DC, to Monterey, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Supersports, as well as ride in a preproduction Torcal EV, which we wrote about last week. …
Trump admin shelves Cyclospora research despite record-breaking outbreak
The Trump administration is halting vital federal research on the foodborne parasite Cyclospora, despite the record-breaking, nationwide outbreak of the diarrheal pathogen, according to Politico . Of the three research programs that …
Get in on the Ars community that doesn’t fit beneath an article
If you’re like many of our readers, you’ve got Ars Technica bookmarked and hit the front page a few times a day. But for others, a compelling story is what brings them …
Review: Coyote vs. Acme is an unabashed love letter to Looney Tunes
It took three years, but Coyote vs. Acme is finally in theaters and delighting audiences of all ages with its irresistible blend of slapstick humor, pointed satire, and even a warm fuzzy …
Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed"
President Trump yesterday demanded that the Federal Communications Commission punish or rebuke an NBC journalist for saying he has "mixed results" in his election endorsements. In the latest example of how Trump …
“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit
Some of the world’s leading music publishers think that Anthropic got off too light in a historic settlement where the Claude maker paid authors $1.5 billion after admitting to pirating more than …
Raindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds
The standard explanation for why rain causes corrosion is that water carries dissolved salts and acids to a surface, constant drumming of raindrops abrades whatever protective coating is on it, and oxygen …
Think twice before installing this device promising free movies
As online services get better at blocking malicious traffic, the attackers and scammers behind them have been forced to find new ways to reach their targets. The alternative of choice is now …
El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds
Every few years, El Niño or its cool counterpart, La Niña, shifts rainfall across the tropics, dries out Australia, floods parts of Peru, and rearranges the weather on most of the planet. …
Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government
Trade talks between the US and Canada broke down last week, leading to a wave of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs. US President Donald Trump also fell back on an old favorite to …
ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules
OpenAI’s ChatGPT will have to comply with tougher EU rules such as removing illegal content or face potential fines, the European Commission said on Monday, as Brussels grapples with how its existing …
NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe
Fully fueled, Roman tipped the scales at some 20,000 pounds (9 metric tons) and filled the Falcon Heavy’s payload fairing. The rocket sent the observatory toward an observation post around the Sun-Earth …
Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.
I tried to be at least somewhat detailed in my baseline “engine” prompt to Pocket: “An overhead shot of a man in the center of the screen. When you tap and hold …
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
Here at Ars, we’re intimately familiar with data leaks surrounding Valve’s games, hardware, and the workings of Steam itself. But nothing could have prepared us for this weekend’s “terarelease” encompassing more than …
Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference
As is standard procedure for major NASA missions, the US space agency held a post-launch news conference on Sunday morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide information about how the …
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
But at a conference last year, Eric Xu, senior manager for robotics at Meta, said the company’s “long-term goals” are to put robots in data centers, arguing they could speed up incident …