1. iOS 26.0.1, macOS 26.0.1 updates fix install bugs, new phone problems, and more

2. California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted

3. Behind the scenes with the most beautiful car in racing: The Ferrari 499P

4. Is the “million-year-old” skull from China a Denisovan or something else?

5. Burnout and Elon Musk’s politics spark exodus from senior xAI, Tesla staff

6. The most efficient Crosstrek ever? Subaru’s hybrid gets a bit rugged.

7. The SUV that saved Porsche goes electric, and the tech is interesting

8. Scientists unlock secret to Venus flytrap’s hair-trigger response

9. Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay 24.5 million

10. Another setback for Firefly Aerospace’s beleaguered rocket program

11. Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks

12. Sports piracy site Streameast returns after US government let domain expire

13. EA will be a very different company under private ownership

14. F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project

15. ESA will pay an Italian company nearly 50 million to design a mini-Starship

16. Senators try to halt shuttle move, saying “little evidence” of public demand

17. Fortnite disables Peacemaker emote that might resemble a swastika

18. Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

19. It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in 55 billion deal

20. Big AI firms pump money into world models as LLM advances slow

21. ZR1, GTD, and America’s new Nurburgring war

22. 30 years later, I’m still obliterating planets in Master of Orion II—and you can, too

23. 150 million-year-old pterosaur cold case has finally been solved

24. The current war on science, and who’s behind it

25. Why LA Comic Con thought making an AI-powered Stan Lee hologram was a good idea

26. Can AI detect hedgehogs from space? Maybe if you find brambles first.

27. Woman hospitalized with pain and vomiting—diet soda cured her

28. LG’s 1,800 TV for seniors makes misguided assumptions

29. Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to 50 billion

30. YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes

31. Sinclair gets nothing it asked for, puts Jimmy Kimmel back on anyway

32. You should care more about the stabilizers in your mechanical keyboard—here’s why

33. Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and funding running dry

34. Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”

35. Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun

36. 50 scientific societies sign letter objecting to Trump executive order

37. Asus’ new ROG Xbox Ally X set to break the bank at 999.99

38. Rocket Report: Keeping up with Kuiper; New Glenn’s second flight slips

39. Raspberry Pi 500 puts the Pi, 16GB of RAM, and a real SSD in a mechanical keyboard

40. Fiji’s ants might be the canary in the coal mine for the insect apocalypse

41. Senate staff probes DOGE, finds locked doors and windows covered with trash bags

42. Sierra’s Dream Chaser is starting to resemble a nightmare

43. Felony charges after South Carolina high school filled with “fart spray”… for weeks

44. Amazon Fire TV devices expected to ditch Android for Linux in 2025

45. High above the equator, Russia is stalking satellites used by NATO armed forces

46. ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history

47. Study: Planned budget cuts would hurt drug development badly

48. Experts urge caution about using ChatGPT to pick stocks

49. Amazon blamed AI for layoffs, then hired cheap H1-B workers, senators allege

50. Apple iPhone 17 review: Sometimes boring is best

51. Amazon agrees to make canceling Prime easy, will refund customers 1.5B

52. Google DeepMind unveils its first “thinking” robotics AI

53. Reviewing iOS 26 for power users: Reminders, Preview, and more

54. Apple demands EU repeal the Digital Markets Act

55. Astra’s Chris Kemp woke up one recent morning and chose violence

56. As many as 2 million Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day

57. Ford decides to run its Le Mans program in-house, racing in 2027

58. DeepMind’s robotic ballet: An AI for coordinating manufacturing robots

59. The crew of Artemis II will fly on Integrity during mission to the Moon

60. Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December

61. “Screwworm is dangerously close”: Flesh-eating parasites just 70 miles from US

62. Newly found ancient Egyptian port may lead to Cleopatra’s tomb

63. Jimmy Kimmel returns, calls FCC chairman an embarrassment to Republicans

64. A “cosmic carpool” is traveling to a distant space weather observation post

65. Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games

66. Anti-vaccine allies cheer as Trump claims shots have “too much liquid”

67. Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers?

68. Taiwan starts weaponizing chip access after US urged it to, expert says

69. The DHS has been quietly harvesting DNA from Americans for years

70. Ford F-150 Lightnings are powering the grid in first residential V2G pilot

71. Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

72. Pennywise gets an origin story in Welcome to Derry trailer

73. When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette

74. Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney price hikes

75. YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation

76. FCC chairman unconvincingly claims he never threatened ABC station licenses

77. Review: Apple’s iPhone Air is a bunch of small changes that add up to something big

78. Scientists catch a shark threesome on camera

79. Baby Steps is the most gloriously frustrating game I’ve ever struggled through

80. US uncovers 100,000 SIM cards that could have “shut down” NYC cell network

81. NASA targeting early February for Artemis II mission to the Moon

82. Judge lets construction on an offshore wind farm resume

83. Broadcom’s prohibitive VMware prices create a learning “barrier,” IT pro says

84. Supreme Court lets Trump fire FTC Democrat despite 90-year-old precedent

85. Google Play is getting a Gemini-powered AI Sidekick to help you in games

86. EU investigates Apple, Google, and Microsoft over handling of online scams

87. Volvo says it has big plans for South Carolina factory

88. US intel officials “concerned” China will soon master reusable launch

89. How to fight censorship, one Disney cancellation at a time

90. NASA names 24th astronaut class, including prior SpaceX crew member

91. iFixit tears down the iPhone Air, finds that it’s mostly battery

92. Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC

93. Google back in court as it tries to avoid advertising business breakup

94. Rand Paul: FCC chair had “no business” intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy

95. OpenAI and Nvidia’s 100B AI plan will require power equal to 10 nuclear reactors

96. Anti-vaccine groups melt down over reports RFK Jr. to link autism to Tylenol

97. DeepMind AI safety report explores the perils of “misaligned” AI

98. Here’s how potent Atomic credential stealer is finding its way onto Macs

99. Three crashes in the first day? Tesla’s robotaxi test in Austin.

100. Our fave Star Wars duo is back in Mandalorian and Grogu teaser

101. F1 in Azerbaijan: This sport is my red flag

102. What climate targets? Top fossil fuel producing nations keep boosting output

103. A history of the Internet, part 3: The rise of the user

104. Microsoft’s Entra ID vulnerabilities could have been catastrophic

105. You’ll enjoy the Specialized Turbo Vado SL 2 6.0 Carbon even without assist

106. Starship will soon fly over towns and cities, but will dodge the biggest ones

107. In a win for science, NASA told to use House budget as shutdown looms

108. After a very slow start, Europe’s reusable rocket program shows signs of life

109. Bonkers CDC vaccine meeting ends with vote to keep COVID shot access

110. Oklahoma’s big “TV nudes” scandal was… a Jackie Chan movie on a Samsung streaming service

111. Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the second time this year

112. Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day

113. Two of the Kremlin’s most active hack groups are collaborating, ESET says

114. Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report

115. After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The View

116. Steam will drop support for the last 32-bit Windows systems in January 2026

117. Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

118. Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home

119. “Yikes”: Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices

120. If you own a Volvo EX90, you’re getting a free computer upgrade

121. RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine panel realizes it has no idea what it’s doing, skips vote

122. AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities

123. Rocket Report: European rocket reuse test delayed; NASA tweaks SLS for Artemis II

124. Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks

125. In new level of stupid, RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisors axe MMRV recommendation

126. Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners

127. “Get off the iPad!” warns air traffic control as Spirit flight nears Air Force One

128. Google announces massive expansion of AI features in Chrome

129. Northrop Grumman successfully resupplies ISS after overcoming software glitch

130. Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges

131. FCC derided as “Federal Censorship Commission” after pushing Jimmy Kimmel off ABC

132. Nvidia will invest 5 billion in Intel, co-develop new server and PC chips

133. New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes

134. Trump’s Golden Dome will cost 10 to 100 times more than the Manhattan Project

135. Some dogs can classify their toys by function

136. Meta’s 799 Ray-Ban Display is the company’s first big step from VR to AR

137. How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension

138. Right-wing political violence is more frequent, deadly than left-wing violence

139. No Nissan Ariya for model-year 2026 as automaker cancels imports

140. You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish

141. White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits

142. RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine delusions—not science—steer CDC now, ex-director testifies

143. Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently

144. Trump admin says Social Security database wasn’t “leaked, hacked, or shared”

145. Gemini AI solves coding problem that stumped 139 human teams at ICPC World Finals

146. After child’s trauma, chatbot maker allegedly forced mom to arbitration for 100 payout

147. Trailer for Anaconda meta-reboot leans into the laughs

148. Tesla Model Y door handles now under federal safety scrutiny

149. Report: Apple inches closer to releasing an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro

150. China blocks sale of Nvidia AI chips

151. New Amelia Earhart bio delves into her unconventional marriage

152. iOS 26 review: A practical, yet playful, update

153. A record supply load won’t reach the International Space Station as scheduled

154. “China keeps the algorithm”: Critics attack Trump’s TikTok deal

155. Repeat creepy meat problems at Boar’s Head plants draw congressional scrutiny

156. An antidote to fat, heavy cars? Check out these lightweighting awards.

157. Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”

158. ChatGPT may soon require ID verification from adults, CEO says

159. Verizon to offer 20 broadband in California to obtain merger approval

160. Google’s experimental Windows app is better than Microsoft’s built-in search

161. A new report finds China’s space program will soon equal that of the US

162. How Nissan leveraged its driver assist to cut traffic jams

163. When will Jaguar Land Rover restart production? “No one actually knows.”

164. Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession

165. Northrop Grumman’s new spacecraft is a real chonker

166. Meet the latest anti-vaccine voices on RFK Jr.’s CDC advisory panel

167. Google releases VaultGemma, its first privacy-preserving LLM

168. Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

169. What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

170. Ars Live: CTA policy expert explains why tariff stacking is a nightmare

171. Boeing faces 3.1M fine for door plug blowout, hundreds of safety violations

172. macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review

173. Get into the cockpit as new crop of “Top Gun” pilots get their wings

174. Will TikTok go dark Wednesday? Trump claims deal with China avoids shutdown.

175. Parts shortage is the latest problem to hit General Motors production

176. NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

177. China rules that Nvidia violated its antitrust laws

178. The US is trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance”

179. 60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details

180. Scientists: It’s do or die time for America’s primacy exploring the Solar System

181. RFK Jr.‘s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids

182. Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack

183. Feds try to dodge lawsuit against their bogus climate report

184. After Kirk shooting, Utah governor calls social media a “cancer.” Will we treat it like one?

185. Electric vehicle sales grew 25% worldwide but just 6% in North America

186. California bill lets renters escape exclusive deals between ISPs and landlords

187. Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

188. Over three decades later, Nintendo remembers the Virtual Boy exists

189. New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

190. Small, affordable, efficient: A lot to like about the 2026 Nissan Leaf

191. Ex-DVD company employee gets 4 years for leaking Spider-Man Blu-ray

192. Microsoft dodges EU fine by unbundling Teams from Office

193. Rocket Report: Russia’s rocket engine predicament; 300th launch to the ISS

194. Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

195. OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

196. Child dies of horrifying measles complication in Los Angeles

197. NASA found intriguing rocks on Mars, so where does that leave Mars Sample Return?

198. Latest TRON: Ares trailer takes us back to 1982

199. New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

200. Ted Cruz AI bill could let firms bribe Trump to avoid safety laws, critics warn

201. 35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028

202. Is Hollow Knight: Silksong too hard? Well, it depends on what you mean by “hard.”

203. Gmail gets a dedicated place to track all your purchases

204. The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware

205. Pentagon begins deploying new satellite network to link sensors with shooters

206. Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal

207. After Ukrainian testing, drone detection radar doubles range with simple software patch

208. HBO Max is “way underpriced,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO says

209. Ousted CDC director to testify before Senate after RFK Jr. called her a liar

210. Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”

211. One of Google’s new Pixel 10 AI features has already been removed

212. Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

213. Can we please keep our broadband money, Republican governor asks Trump admin

214. Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools

215. Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

216. Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem

217. Has Perseverance found a biosignature on Mars?

218. AI vs. MAGA: Populists alarmed by Trump’s embrace of AI, Big Tech

219. Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

220. New iPhones use Apple N1 wireless chip—and we’ll probably start seeing it everywhere

221. Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for “straight” women

222. Hands-on with Apple’s new iPhones: Beauty and the beast and the regular-looking one

223. Pfizer says this season’s COVID shot boosts immune responses fourfold

224. Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in

225. After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch

226. As hackers exploit one high-severity SAP flaw, company warns of 3 more

227. SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

228. iPhone 17 Air is real—here’s what’s new in Apple’s extra-thin handset

229. iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and Apple’s other OS updates launch September 15

230. Apple “started from scratch” to design all-new iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max

231. Apple adds hypertension and sleep-quality monitoring to Watch Ultra 3, Series 11

232. Apple announces 799 iPhone 17 with bigger 6.3-inch always-on ProMotion screen, A19 chip

233. New AirPods Pro 3 turn Apple’s earbuds into fitness tracker, universal translator

234. “You are evil”: GirlsDoPorn ringleader Michael Pratt sentenced to 27 years

235. Judge: Anthropic’s 1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

236. Accessory maker will pay Nintendo after showing illicit Switch 2 mockups at CES

237. Switch modder owes Nintendo 2 million after representing himself in court

238. Geoengineering will not save humankind from climate change

239. Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough

240. Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack

241. Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”

242. In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”

243. Nobel laureate David Baltimore dead at 87

244. On a day of rebranding at the Pentagon, this name change slipped under the radar

245. EchoStar to sell spectrum to SpaceX after FCC threatened to revoke licenses

246. The Polestar 5 electric sedan makes its world debut

247. Benoit Blanc goes full Gothic in Wake Up Dead Man trailer

248. AI will consume all of IT by 2030—but not all IT jobs, Gartner says

249. Trump’s attempt to fire FTC Democrat gets a boost from Supreme Court

250. F1 in Italy: Look what happens when the downforce comes off

251. All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

252. Congress and Trump may compromise on the SLS rocket by axing its costly upper stage

253. Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age

254. Porsche’s insanely clever hybrid engine comes to the 911 Turbo S

255. GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites

256. Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

257. “First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors 1.5 billion

258. What to expect (and not expect) from yet another September Apple event

259. Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs

260. Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine for adtech monopoly

261. Lenovo demos laptop with a screen you can swivel into portrait mode

262. Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo

263. NASA’s acting chief “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon

264. ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people

265. Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port

266. OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips

267. Rocket Report: Neutron’s pad opens for business; SpaceX gets Falcon 9 green light

268. BMW debuts 6th-generation EV powertrain in the all-electric iX3

269. RFK Jr. says COVID shots still available to all as cancer patients denied access

270. The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.

271. Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn

272. COVID vaccine locations vanish from Google Maps due to supposed “technical issue”

273. Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year

274. Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

275. Harvard beats Trump as judge orders US to restore 2.6 billion in funding

276. Honda combines Type-R handling with hybrid efficiency for 2026 Prelude

277. Philips introduces budget-friendly Hue bulbs as part of major lineup overhaul

278. Lull in Falcon Heavy missions opens window for SpaceX to build new landing pads

279. Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

280. New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats

281. Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants

282. Former NASA chief says United States likely to lose second lunar space race

283. FCC chair teams up with Ted Cruz to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolkids

284. Google’s Material 3 Expressive UI rolls out to Pixel 6 and newer

285. These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

286. Are you ready for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple trailer?

287. Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

288. In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements

289. Court reinstates fired FTC Democrat, says Trump ignored Supreme Court precedent

290. Audi design finds its minimalist groove again with Concept C

291. reMarkable’s newest E-Inkwriting tablet is a 7.3-inch, 449 handheld slab

292. Beyond technology? How Bentley is reacting to the 21st century.

293. “Mockery of science”: Climate scientists tear into new US climate report

294. Trump’s move of SPACECOM to Alabama has little to do with national security

295. The new Dolby Vision 2 HDR standard is probably going to be controversial

296. OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial

297. Google won’t have to sell Chrome, judge rules

298. A robot walks on water thanks to evolution’s solution

299. Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

300. Revolving door: Ex-senator becomes cable industry’s top lobbyist