1. Water utility announces it''s ditching fluoride—then reveals it did so years ago

2. Judge halts Nexstar/Tegna merger after FCC let firms exceed TV ownership limit

3. Meta hopes SCOTUS piracy ruling will help it beat lawsuit over torrenting AI data

4. F1 in Japan: Oh no, what have they done to all the fast corners?

5. After 16 years and 8 billion, the military''s new GPS software still doesn''t work

6. Trump convenes "God Squad" to override Endangered Species Act, up oil production

7. What happened to Amelia Earhart? New book takes on the case.

8. Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC

9. Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?

10. Explanation for why we don''t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails

11. Getting formal about quantum mechanics'' lack of causality

12. How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures

13. Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026

14. With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding

15. Outbreak linked to raw cheese grows; 9 cases total, one with kidney failure

16. Judge irate as defendant joins by Zoom while driving—then lies about it

17. AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec

18. Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says

19. DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email was hacked

20. Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between 100 and 150

21. No one is happy with NASA''s new idea for private space stations

22. Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop

23. Rivian and VW Group complete winter testing of new zonal architecture

24. Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage

25. AMD''s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

26. Rocket Report: Russia reopens gateway to ISS; Cape Canaveral hosts missile test

27. Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal

28. Spotify seeks 300M from Anna''s Archive, which ignores all court proceedings

29. Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of "anonymous" crime tips

30. As RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine ways turn toxic to GOP, CDC director is hard to find

31. Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent

32. You''ve got 20,000 to spend on an EV: Here are some options

33. Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment

34. The debut of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live could make it harder to know if you''re talking to a robot

35. Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs

36. OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT

37. Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer

38. The Corvette E-Ray is dead, long live the Grand Sport X

39. 2026''s historic snow drought is bad news for the West

40. BRINC''s new police drone uses Starlink, carries Narcan, chases vehicles at 60mph

41. Here is NASA''s plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars

42. Reddit will require "fishy" accounts to verify they are run by a human

43. We got an audience with the "Lunar Viceroy" to talk how NASA will build a Moon base

44. Meta, YouTube must pay 3M to woman who got hooked on apps as a child

45. Nintendo is raising prices of Switch 2 game cartridges starting in May

46. Supreme Court rejects Sony''s attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet

47. Google''s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

48. Antibiotic resistance among germs swells during droughts, study suggests

49. Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists

50. Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

51. Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps

52. Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update

53. Disney cancels 1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans

54. Honda cancels the two electric vehicles it was developing with Sony

55. So long, farewell: Saying goodbye to Audi''s best car, the 2026 RS6 Avant

56. How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors

57. "The last straw"—RFK Jr.''s anti-vaccine ally angrily quits CDC panel after spat

58. Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk

59. Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

60. Mozilla dev''s "Stack Overflow for agents" targets a key weakness in coding AI

61. OpenAI plans to shut down Sora just 15 months after its launch

62. Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate

63. FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models

64. Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, macOS 26.4 with a long list of medium-size tweaks

65. NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base

66. Google''s new version of Android Automotive will move beyond infotainment

67. Apple confirms that its Maps app will begin showing ads to users "this summer"

68. All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds

69. Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks

70. Study says roads bring more fires to forests; USDA wants more roads to fight fires

71. Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines

72. Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?

73. A mission NASA might kill is still returning fascinating science from Jupiter

74. Trump''s MAHA pick for surgeon general flounders amid GOP doubts

75. Nvidia CEO tries to explain why DLSS 5 isn’t just “AI slop”

76. After hackers hit an Iowa company, cars around the country failed to start

77. LG Display starts mass-producing LTPO-like 1 Hz LCD displays for laptops

78. US to pay TotalEnergies 1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US

79. Intuit beats FTC in court, ending restrictions on "free" TurboTax ads

80. Apple will talk iOS 27, macOS 27, and more at WWDC 2026 on June 8

81. Long fingernails vs. touchscreens: This nail polish could help

82. Republicans in Congress add 250 annual federal EV tax to transport bill

83. As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school

84. A bit of good news: It''s possible to turn around a groundwater crisis

85. AI is beginning to change the business of law

86. A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it

87. There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40

88. Mining the deep ocean

89. We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what''s it telling us?

90. DOGE goes nuclear: How trump invited silicon valley into America’s nuclear power regulator

91. Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets

92. You''re likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you''ve never heard of

93. Once again, ULA can''t deliver when the US military needs a satellite in orbit

94. Microsoft keeps insisting that it''s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

95. Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use

96. Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

97. NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule

98. Trump FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna and blow way past 39% TV ownership cap

99. RFK may replace entire panel of CDC vaccine advisors again, ally lets slip

100. Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars

101. NASA is blowing stuff up to study the explosive potential of methalox rockets

102. Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone

103. Major SteamOS update adds support for Steam Machine, even more third-party hardware

104. Monte Verde site gets a new date, but the big picture doesn''t change

105. Jeff Bezos just announced plans for a third megaconstellation—this one for data centers

106. The US is looking at a year of chaotic weather

107. Feds say no need to recall Tesla''s one-pedal driving despite petition

108. Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let''s be hasty

109. Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?

110. RFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept''s expert panels

111. Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program

112. Hundreds of millions of iPhones can be hacked with a new tool found in the wild

113. FBI started buying Americans'' location data again, Kash Patel confirms

114. Dogfighting in space won''t look like the movies, but this company wants in on it

115. OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

116. At the last minute, Meta decides not to kill Horizon Worlds VR after all

117. Afroman keeps trolling cops after winning “Lemon Pound Cake” defamation case

118. Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

119. Despite hardware limits, Parallels supports running Windows on MacBook Neo

120. After 25 years, Valve reworks Counter-Strike''s reload system

121. Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America

122. TCL’s German QLED ban puts pressure on TV brands to be more honest about QDs

123. Kagi Translate''s AI answers the question "What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?"

124. Musk’s tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law

125. Coal plant forced to stay open due to emergency order isn''t even running

126. Never mind Band-Aids, Neanderthals had antiseptic birch tar

127. Cloudflare appeals Piracy Shield fine, hopes to kill Italy''s site-blocking law

128. A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid

129. Federal cyber experts called Microsoft''s cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway

130. A station wagon is entering one of the hardest 24-hour races in the world

131. Peter faces a new life cycle in Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer

132. After Discord fiasco, age-check tech promises privacy by running locally. Does it work?

133. Here''s BMW''s first all-electric 3 series, the 2027 i3

134. Apple can delist apps "with or without cause," judge says in loss for Musi app

135. World ID wants you to put a cryptographically unique human identity behind your AI agents

136. Arizona indicts prediction market Kalshi for running illegal gambling operation

137. FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall

138. Trump''s plan to shut down weather and climate center triggers lawsuit

139. Paul Atreides faces the cost of his holy war in Dune: Part 3 teaser

140. Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturers

141. Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5''s generative AI glow-ups

142. After three months, Samsung is ending sales of the 2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold

143. A large meteor is visible from much of Ohio and parts of neighboring states

144. Nintendo Switch 2 update adds one possible fix for blurry OG Switch games

145. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Private and performant

146. Firefighting drones head to Aspen—can they suppress a blaze before humans arrive?

147. Upmarket looks, mass-market price: The 2027 Kia Telluride, driven

148. Elon Musk''s xAI sued for turning three girls'' real photos into AI CSAM

149. RFK Jr''s changes to CDC vaccine guidance, advisory board blocked by judge

150. National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info

151. New "vibe coded" AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community

152. Trump and his FCC chair demand more positive news coverage of Iran war

153. OpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed “naughty” ChatGPT launch

154. Driving the 375,000 Porsche race car that debuted as a 12 DLC in iRacing

155. F1 in China: I''ve never seen so many people in those grandstands

156. Apple’s AirPods Max 2 bring H2 chip, boosted ANC in April for 549

157. 100 years later, where is Robert Goddard''s first liquid-fuel rocket?

158. No accountability: Bills would ban liability lawsuits for climate change

159. The science of how fireflies stay in sync

160. A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites

161. An engineering thesis disguised as a coupe: A history of the Honda Prelude

162. Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval

163. NASA officials sidestepped questions on Artemis II risks—there''s a reason why

164. Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum

165. Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good

166. Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

167. Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

168. Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

169. Adobe settles DOJ cancellation fee lawsuit, will pay 75 million penalty

170. Doubling the voltage: What 800 V architecture really changes in EVs

171. Another AT&T FirstNet user gets shocking 6,200 bill, at 2 per megabyte

172. Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10

173. M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody

174. Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae

175. Signs of hope: As measles spread, New Mexico vaccinations surged 55%

176. Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming''s "compiling shaders" wait times

177. Aliens announce their presence in latest Disclosure Day trailer

178. BYD''s latest EVs can get close to full charge in just 12 minutes

179. Rocket Report: Pentagon needs more missile interceptors; Artemis II clears review

180. The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker''s Windows network"

181. Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, "robbing them blind"

182. HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers

183. Trump''s DOJ is not falling for Sam Bankman-Fried''s MAGA makeover on X

184. Lucid announces midsize EV platform, says profitability lies with SUVs

185. Perplexity''s "Personal Computer" brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

186. Centuries before the Inca, Peru''s wealthy imported parrots from afar

187. Apple''s MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

188. Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense

189. Rivian reveals pricing and trim details for its R2 SUV

190. We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming

191. Facing heavy losses, Honda cancels its three US-made electric vehicles

192. Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

193. Remembering the 30-year-old computer game that introduced me to Star Wars

194. How I streamed my off-road Miata race using Starlink and StarStream

195. Google Play Games for PC is getting more premium titles and cross-buy with Android

196. Report: RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda curbed as GOP realizes it''s unpopular

197. FCC chair blasts Amazon after it criticizes SpaceX megaconstellation

198. 14,000 routers are infected by malware that''s highly resistant to takedowns

199. Explain it like I''m 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?

200. Windows 11''s Steam Deck-ish, streamlined Xbox gaming UI comes to all PCs in April

201. "Use a gun" or "beat the crap out of him": AI chatbot urged violence, study finds

202. Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov’t probes into sanctioned crypto transfers

203. A glimpse into tuner culture: Fast and Furious exhibit at the Petersen

204. Intel shores up its desktop CPU lineup with boosted Core Ultra 200S Plus chips

205. Anduril, the autonomous weapons maker, doubles the size of its space unit

206. Nvidia is reportedly planning its own open source OpenClaw competitor

207. NIH director launches "Scientific Freedom" lectures with non-scientist

208. Here''s everything we know about Rivian R2 pricing and specs

209. Verdict: Yes, you should go see Project Hail Mary as soon as possible

210. What crackdown? Trump''s EPA enforcement claims don''t pass sniff test.

211. Don''t lick that cold metal pole in winter—if you do, don''t panic

212. Quantum computing meets the Möbius molecule

213. NASA approved a safety waiver for this week''s reentry of Van Allen Probe

214. FDA contradicts Trump admin, declines to approve generic drug for autism

215. AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

216. Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network

217. After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos

218. Anthropic sues US over blacklisting; White House calls firm "radical left, woke"

219. Trump''s divisive FDA vaccine regulator self-destructs, will exit agency (again)

220. NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander

221. Gemini burrows deeper into Google Workspace with revamped document creation and editing

222. Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns

223. These new winter tires have studs that retract as it warms up

224. After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

225. Apple MacBook Neo review: Can a Mac get by with an iPhone’s processor inside?

226. After falling far behind the rest of industry, Blue Origin creates new stock option plan

227. Quad Cortex mini amp modeler: All the power, half the size

228. Testing Apple''s 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new "performance" cores

229. US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial

230. An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters

231. Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds

232. Flexible feline spines shed light on "falling cat" problem

233. Don''t worry, Valve still plans to launch the Steam Machine "this year"

234. 2026 Australian Grand Prix: Formula 1 debuts a new style of racing

235. Chevrolet killed it then brought it back, now we drive it: The 2027 Bolt

236. “It doesn''t feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US

237. Jessica Jones joins the fray in Daredevil: Born Again trailer

238. Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization

239. Hunting for elusive "ghost elephants"

240. A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara

241. From Iran to Ukraine, everyone''s trying to hack security cameras

242. Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead

243. Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran''s attacks on US bases

244. Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons

245. Google''s new command line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data

246. Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances

247. Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target

248. How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery

249. Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI

250. Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials

251. Climate change sucks, but at least it won''t kill your EV battery

252. Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance''s Chinese apps

253. Apple''s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

254. With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?

255. Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?

256. Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated

257. AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on résumé

258. Rocket Report: SpaceX launch prices are going up; Russia fixes broken launch pad

259. Which of these two arcades is the "world largest"—and does it matter?

260. Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

261. MS exec: Microsoft''s next console will play "Xbox and PC games"

262. RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are "unreviewable," DOJ lawyer tells judge

263. Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

264. OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability

265. The Boys S5 trailer tees up a bloody final season

266. Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation

267. Nerve damage, energy management, and Apple TV: F1 in 2026 starts today

268. Lanterns teaser swaps superhero hijinks for gritty realism

269. Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations

270. Musk testifies tweet that led to 44 billion lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"

271. macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5''s CPU to new "super" cores

272. TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant

273. Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space

274. Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

275. Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case

276. Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide "countdown"

277. After a rocky six years, Sony cancels future single-player PC game releases

278. Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

279. The US Senate empowers NASA to fully engage in lunar space race

280. MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price

281. Google Pixel 10a review: The sidegrade

282. Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?

283. The 599 MacBook Neo is Apple''s long-awaited, colorful, lower-cost MacBook

284. No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moon

285. Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in 1.2B deal

286. FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger "a lot cleaner" than defunct Netflix deal

287. What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes

288. There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than 15K on an EV

289. M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon

290. New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting prices

291. Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years

292. This is why our electricity bills are so high right now

293. As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"

294. Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.’s health work as a failure

295. LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

296. With developer verification, Google''s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android''s open legacy

297. Oops: South Korean cops lost 5M in seized crypto after leaking wallet password

298. Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US

299. Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry

300. 599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost