1. Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair use

2. New pope chose his name based on AI’s threats to “human dignity”

3. Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water

4. US and China pause tariffs for 90 days as Trump claims “historic trade win”

5. Nintendo threatens to brick Switch consoles for hacking, piracy

6. A new era in cancer therapies is at hand

7. The tinkerers who opened up a fancy coffee maker to AI brewing

8. The Last of Us episode 5 recap: There’s something in the air

9. The Justice League is not impressed in Peacemaker S2 teaser

10. Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star

11. When doctors describe your brain scan as a “starry sky,” it’s not good

12. New Lego-building AI creates models that actually stand up in real life

13. Wearables firm’s endless free hardware upgrades were too good to be true

14. Recap: Here’s what happened in Google’s search antitrust trial

15. Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made

16. Trump kills broadband grants, calls digital equity program “racist and illegal”

17. Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout

18. Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky sentenced to 12 years for “unbank yourself” scam

19. Don’t look now, but a confirmed gamer is leading the Catholic Church

20. Trump cuts tariff on UK cars; American carmakers not happy about it

21. Doom: The Dark Ages review: Shields up!

22. Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

23. A star has been destroyed by a wandering supermassive black hole

24. Rocket Report: Rocket Lab to demo cargo delivery; America’s new ICBM in trouble

25. New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations

26. A Soviet-era spacecraft built to land on Venus is falling to Earth instead

27. AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests

28. Fidji Simo joins OpenAI as new CEO of Applications

29. DOGE software engineer’s computer infected by info-stealing malware

30. Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disasters

31. Senate passes “cruel” Republican plan to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolkids

32. DOGE to roll out shadowy software to speed mass gov’t layoffs, report says

33. Microsoft effectively raises high-end Surface prices by discontinuing base models

34. Trump’s NIH ignored court order, cut research grants anyway

35. Google hits back after Apple exec says AI is hurting search

36. Apple: “Hundreds of millions to billions” lost without App Store commissions

37. Belief in fake news linked to problematic social media use

38. Trump admin to roll back Biden’s AI chip restrictions

39. USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as “merely descriptive”

40. Elon Musk is responsible for “killing the world’s poorest children,” says Bill Gates

41. WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages

42. Genetic-engineered bacteria break down industrial contaminants

43. Matter update may finally take the tedium out of setting up your smart home

44. We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution

45. Cue: Apple will add AI search in mobile Safari, challenging Google

46. Starlink: Here’s a free satellite dish—if you pay 120 a month instead of 90

47. Broadcom sends cease-and-desist letters to subscription-less VMware users

48. Ars Technica’s gift guide for Mother’s Day: Give mom some cool things

49. Everything you ever wanted to know about four-wheel steering

50. Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities

51. Trump tariffs could make Americans pay 123B more annually for 10 common gadgets

52. The Third Crisis dawns in Foundation S3 teaser

53. NASA scrambles to cut ISS activity after Trump budget—its options are not great

54. Ford raises prices on Mexican-made cars—but not the full tariff cost

55. Dangerous clear-air turbulence is worsening due to global warming

56. Jury orders NSO to pay 167 million for hacking WhatsApp users

57. The company with the world’s largest aircraft now has a hypersonic rocket plane

58. Trump and DOJ try to spring former county clerk Tina Peters from prison

59. Trump admin picks COVID critic to be top FDA vaccine regulator

60. FAA green-lights Starship launches every other week from Starbase

61. Apps like Kindle are already taking advantage of court-mandated iOS App Store changes

62. 2025 Alfa Romeo Tonale Turbo review: Italian charm that cuts both ways

63. Nvidia GeForce xx60 series is PC gaming’s default GPU, and a new one is out May 19

64. How long will Switch 2’s Game Key Cards keep working?

65. Trump administration cuts off all future federal funding to Harvard

66. Find my… bicycle?

67. Musk’s politics see Tesla sales collapse in Europe

68. Data centers say Trump’s crackdown on renewables bad for business, AI

69. Lighter, cheaper Surface Laptop saves a little money but gives up a lot

70. Microsoft’s 12-inch Surface Pro is cheaper but unfixes a decade-old design problem

71. Tuesday Telescope: After spacewalking, an astronaut strikes lightning

72. Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee

73. Heartbreaking video shows deadly risk of skipping measles vaccine

74. Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked

75. OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure

76. Google accidentally reveals Android’s Material 3 Expressive interface ahead of I/O

77. Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack

78. Only elites used hallucinogens in ancient Andes society

79. RIP Skype (2003–2025), survived by multiple versions of Microsoft Teams

80. Why Google Gemini’s Pokémon success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

81. After two court losses, DOGE asks Supreme Court for Social Security data access

82. Software update makes HDR content “unwatchable” on Roku TVs

83. Largest deepfake porn site shuts down forever

84. F1 in Miami: Like normal F1, but everyone wears pastels

85. On cusp of storm season, NOAA funding cuts put hurricane forecasting at risk

86. SpaceX pushed “sniper” theory with the feds far more than is publicly known

87. The Last of Us takes Dina and Ellie on a tense, pictuesque Seattle getaway

88. Review: Thunderbolts* is a refreshing return to peak Marvel form

89. Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

90. A DOGE recruiter is staffing a project to deploy AI agents across the US government

91. In his first 100 days, Trump launched an “all-out assault” on the environment

92. We finally know a little more about Amazon’s super-secret satellites

93. Health care company says Trump tariffs will cost it 60M–70M this year

94. DOJ confirms it wants to break up Google’s ad business

95. Editorial: Censoring the scientific enterprise, one grant at a time

96. Judge on Meta’s AI training: “I just don’t understand how that can be fair use”

97. Microsoft’s new “passwordless by default” is great but comes at a cost

98. Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride

99. Trump’s 2026 budget proposal: Crippling cuts for science across the board

100. AI strategists, Formula 1, even an electric NASCAR? We talk racing with GM.

101. Screwworms are coming—and they’re just as horrifying as they sound

102. Claude’s AI research mode now runs for up to 45 minutes before delivering reports

103. Google teases NotebookLM app in the Play Store ahead of I/O release

104. Cyborg cicadas play Pachelbel’s Canon

105. “Blatantly unlawful”: Trump slammed for trying to defund PBS, NPR

106. Some flies go insomniac to ward off parasites

107. White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs

108. Spotify seizes the day after Apple is forced to allow external payments

109. Epic Games Store completely eliminates revenue fees for smaller developers

110. Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit

111. Grand Theft Auto VI gets pushed back to May 26, 2026

112. DOGE put a college student in charge of using AI to rewrite regulations

113. Rocket Report: Starbase the city is coming soon; Alpha remains in beta

114. “Older than Google,” this Elder Scrolls wiki has been helping gamers for 30 years

115. Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

116. Phishing attacks that defeat MFA are easier than ever. So what are we to do?

117. New study accuses LM Arena of gaming its popular AI benchmark

118. Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits

119. New material may help us build Predator-style thermal vision specs

120. Sen. Susan Collins blasts Trump for cuts to scientific research

121. The 2025 Aston Martin Vantage: Achingly beautiful and thrilling to drive

122. Neanderthals invented their own bone weapon technology by 80,000 years ago

123. Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots

124. Gaming news site Polygon gutted by massive layoffs amid sale to Valnet

125. Meet the winners of the 2025 Dance Your PhD contest

126. Tesla denies trying to replace Elon Musk as CEO

127. Microsoft raises prices on Xbox hardware, says “some” holiday games will be 80

128. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid

129. Fortnite will return to iOS after court slams Apple’s “obvious cover-up”

130. If you’re in the market for a 1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now

131. DNA links modern pueblo dwellers to Chaco Canyon people

132. Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering

133. Research roundup: Tattooed tardigrades and splash-free urinals

134. Sundar Pichai says DOJ demands are a “de facto” spin-off of Google search

135. Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that.

136. RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory

137. Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi

138. NASA just swapped a 10-year-old Artemis II engine with one nearly twice its age

139. CBS owner Paramount reportedly intends to settle Trump’s 20 billion lawsuit

140. Nintendo imposes new limits on sharing for digital Switch games

141. After convincing senators he supports Artemis, Isaacman nomination advances

142. First Amendment doesn’t just protect human speech, chatbot maker argues

143. Republicans want to tax EV drivers 200/year in new transport bill

144. The end of an AI that shocked the world: OpenAI retires GPT-4

145. Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates

146. Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance

147. OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT a sycophantic mess

148. Google search’s made-up AI explanations for sayings no one ever said, explained

149. FCC urges courts to ignore 5th Circuit ruling that agency can’t issue fines

150. Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen

151. Amazon denies it will start listing cost of tariffs as other sites start doing it

152. Montana’s Republican legislators fight back after successful youth climate lawsuit

153. Google: Governments are using zero-day hacks more than ever

154. Trump backs down a bit on auto industry tariffs—but only a bit

155. Physics of the perfect cacio e pepe sauce

156. Trump’s National Climate Assessment: No funding and all authors cut loose

157. A rocket launch Monday night may finally jump-start Amazon’s answer to Starlink

158. The BYD Dolphin review: Here’s what we’re missing out on in America

159. Tuesday Telescope: Yes, you can see stars in space, and they’re spectacular

160. AI-generated code could be a disaster for the software supply chain. Here’s why.

161. Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50

162. Seasonal COVID shots may no longer be possible under Trump admin

163. Spain is about to face the challenge of a “black start”

164. ChatGPT goes shopping with new product-browsing feature

165. Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk

166. Trump’s hasty Take It Down Act has “gaping flaws” that threaten encryption

167. What’s it like to be 70 years old in space? “All those little aches and pains heal up.”

168. 50 years later, Vietnam’s environment still bears the scars of war

169. DOGE could help Musk firms avoid 2.3B in government penalties, Democrats say

170. 2025 VW Golf R first drive: The R stands for “really good fun”

171. OnePlus lowers Watch 3 price by 150, promises refunds for early buyers

172. Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark

173. iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years

174. In HBO’s The Last of Us, revenge is a dish best served democratically

175. Revisiting iZombie, 10 years later

176. “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated fonts

177. Is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion still fun for a first-time player in 2025?

178. Weapons of war are launching from Cape Canaveral for the first time since 1988

179. With over 900 US measles cases so far this year, things are looking bleak

180. Mike Lindell’s lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakes

181. New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don’t yet live up to their billing

182. Looming tariffs are making it extra hard to be a tech geek

183. New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths

184. Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired

185. FBI offers 10 million for information about Salt Typhoon members

186. Thermal imaging shows xAI lied about supercomputer pollution, group says

187. Google announces 1st and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in October 2025

188. Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible

189. Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it

190. Report: TP-Link’s low router prices probed in criminal antitrust investigation

191. A grim signal: Atmospheric CO2 soared in 2024

192. Feds ease rules for autonomous vehicle testing to compete with China

193. In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource

194. Rocket Report: The pitfalls of rideshare; China launches next Tiangong crew

195. A 20,000 electric truck with manual windows and no screens? Meet Slate Auto.

196. Reusable rockets are here, so why is NASA paying more to launch stuff to space?

197. An ancient battle has driven a wetland species almost to extinction

198. Comcast president bemoans broadband customer losses: “We are not winning”

199. Trump orders Ed Dept to make AI a national priority while plotting agency’s death

200. Perplexity will come to Moto phones after exec testified Google blocked access

201. Roku tech, patents prove its potential for delivering “interruptive” ads

202. New Android spyware is targeting Russian military personnel on the front lines

203. NSF director resigns amid 55% budget cut, mass layoffs from Trump admin

204. Bone collector caterpillar adorns itself in insect body parts

205. Motorola announces super-colorful Razr, Razr, and Razr Ultra flip phones

206. Nintendo Switch 2’s gameless Game-Key cards are going to be very common

207. 2025 VW Golf GTI: Buttons are back on the menu, smiles never went away

208. Sadly for China, rare Earth elements aren’t actually all that rare

209. Review: Ryzen AI CPU makes this the fastest the Framework Laptop 13 has ever been

210. Tapeworm in fox poop that will slowly destroy your organs is on the rise

211. Elle Fanning teams up with a predator in first Predator: Badlands trailer

212. Can the legal system catch up with climate science?

213. FCC Democrat slams chairman for aiding Trump’s “campaign of censorship”

214. Backward compatible: Many old Oblivion mods still work on Oblivion Remastered

215. AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar

216. Trump is “desperate” to make a deal—China isn’t, analysts say

217. Netflix drops Wednesday S2 teaser, first-look images

218. Google reveals sky-high Gemini usage numbers in antitrust case

219. Everything but the Beholders: D&D updates core rules, sticks with CC license

220. Apple and Meta furious at EU over fines totaling 700 million

221. Zuckerberg stifled Instagram because he loves Facebook, Instagram founder says

222. Bethesda isn’t shutting down ambitious fan-made “Skyblivion” remaster project

223. Republican space officials criticize “mindless” NASA science cuts

224. 4chan may be dead, but its toxic legacy lives on

225. Bicycle bling: All the accessories you’ll need for your new e-bike

226. Tesla’s death is “not close” says Musk, as operating margin drops to 2%

227. Universities (finally) band together, fight “unprecedented government overreach”

228. Drunk man walks into climate change, burns the bottoms of his feet off

229. ChatGPT head tells court OpenAI is interested in buying Chrome

230. Google won’t ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all

231. Taxes and fees not included: T-Mobile’s latest price lock is nearly meaningless

232. Harvard sues to block government funding cuts

233. Man buys racetrack, ends up launching the Netflix of grassroots motorsports

234. 12-year-old Doom 2 challenge map finally beaten after six-hour, 23K-demon grind

235. You can play the Unreal-powered The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster today

236. Google Messages can now blur unwanted nudes, remind people not to send them

237. FTC sues Uber over difficulty of canceling subscriptions, “false” claims

238. 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV SS first drive: A big ride and handling upgrade

239. Tuesday Telescope: A rare glimpse of one of the smallest known moons

240. A Chinese-born crypto tycoon—of all people—changed the way I think of space

241. Controversial doc gets measles while treating unvaccinated kids—keeps working

242. Are these chimps having a fruity booze-up in the wild?

243. White House plagued by Signal controversy as Pentagon in “full-blown meltdown”

244. Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps

245. Trump can’t keep China from getting AI chips, TSMC suggests

246. In depth with Windows 11 Recall—and what Microsoft has (and hasn’t) fixed

247. Chrome on the chopping block as Google’s search antitrust trial moves forward

248. Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone

249. HBO’s The Last of Us reaches “The Moment” game fans have been dreading

250. F1 in Saudi Arabia: Blind corners and walls at over 200 mph

251. Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech

252. Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise

253. Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars

254. Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying volume shifts

255. Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”

256. Microsoft’s “1‑bit” AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems

257. Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives

258. To regenerate a head, you first have to know where your tail is

259. Regrets: Actors who sold AI avatars stuck in Black Mirror-esque dystopia

260. “Lab leak” marketing page replaces federal hub for COVID resources

261. Rover finds hints of an ancient Martian carbon cycle

262. Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends

263. Trump’s tariffs trigger price hikes at large online retailers

264. Cupra is all about affordable cars, funky styling, electrified performance

265. Nintendo raises planned Switch 2 accessory prices amid tariff “uncertainty”

266. Sunderfolk review: RPG magic that transports your friends together

267. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the dad rock of video games, and I love it

268. Recap: Wheel of Time’s third season balefires its way to a hell of a finish

269. Rocket Report: Daytona rocket delayed again; Bahamas tells SpaceX to hold up

270. There’s a secret reason the Space Force is delaying the next Atlas V launch

271. Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.

272. Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar

273. Trump admin accused of censoring NIH’s top expert on ultra-processed foods

274. At monopoly trial, Zuckerberg redefined social media as texting with friends

275. HP agrees to 4M settlement over claims of “falsely advertising” PCs, keyboards

276. Trump’s FCC chair threatens Comcast, demands changes to NBC news coverage

277. US Interior secretary orders offshore wind project shut down

278. Gemini 2.5 Flash comes to the Gemini app as Google seeks improve “dynamic thinking”

279. Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices

280. Skepticism greets claims of a possible biosignature on a distant world

281. Chris Krebs, who debunked 2020 election lies, vows full-time fight against Trump

282. Google is gifting a year of Gemini Advanced to every college student in the US

283. Google loses ad tech monopoly trial, faces additional breakups

284. Sony releases new trailer for 28 Years Later

285. What do you actually do in Mario Kart World’s vast open world?

286. Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims

287. Diablo vs. Darkest Dungeon: RPG devs on balancing punishment and power

288. Climate change will make rice toxic, say researchers

289. OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access

290. Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?

291. AP: Trump admin to kill IRS free tax-filing service that Intuit lobbied against

292. Disgruntled users roast X for killing Support account

293. LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions

294. 14 reasons why Trump’s tariffs won’t bring manufacturing back

295. Government IT whistleblower calls out DOGE, says he was threatened at home

296. RoboBee sticks the landing

297. What happened when Formula E visited an American oval track?

298. Each measles case in raging outbreak costs up to 50,000, CDC official says

299. Google suspended 39.2 million malicious advertisers in 2024 thanks to AI

300. Trump threatens to spike chipmakers’ costs by billions as China mulls exemptions