1. Qubit that makes most errors obvious now available to customers

2. Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for “Best CBD Gummies“

3. Study: Why Aztec “death whistles” sound like human screams

4. Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot PCs on Windows 10 users

5. SpaceX just got exactly what it wanted from the FAA for Texas Starship launches

6. Fitness app Strava is tightening third-party access to user data

7. Comcast to ditch cable TV networks in partial spinoff of NBCUniversal assets

8. Block zombies are on the attack in Minecraft Movie trailer

9. Cracking the recipe for perfect plant-based eggs

10. The key moment came 38 minutes after Starship roared off the launch pad

11. A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is “sold out” in parts of US

12. Musi fans refuse to update iPhones until Apple unblocks controversial app

13. Microsoft and Atom Computing combine for quantum error correction demo

14. Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system

15. Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they’ll need to work at 62 mph.

16. Apple TV spent 20B on original content. If only people actually watched.

17. Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you

18. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with a “full digital twin” of Earth

19. Scientist behind superconductivity claims ousted

20. “Windows 365 Link” is Microsoft’s 349 thin client for Windows in the cloud

21. Novo Nordisk sells hit weight-loss drug in China—at fraction of US price

22. Report: DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling

23. SpaceX will try some new tricks on Starship’s sixth test flight

24. Emergent gravity may be a dead idea, but it’s not a bad one

25. The 2025 GMC Sierra EV Denali brings big power at a bigger cost

26. Can going to a haunted house boost the immune system?

27. AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says

28. The ISS has been leaking air for 5 years, and engineers still don’t know why

29. Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help.

30. Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned

31. To invent the wheel, did people first have to invent the spindle?

32. The amorous adventures of earwigs

33. Apple’s headphone adapter for older iPhones sells out, possibly never to return

34. Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad

35. Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school

36. Trump’s FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs

37. April Fools’ joke results in Japanese firm making a beige ’80s throwback PC case

38. Racing turns its back on heavy, expensive hybrids for sustainable fuel

39. SpaceX president predicts rapid increase in Starship launch rate

40. Urban Arrow’s front-loader is a stylish, functional cargo/kid hauler

41. Study confirms Egyptians likely used hallucinogens in rituals

42. Silo S2 expands its dystopian world

43. These are the lasting things that Half-Life 2 gave us, besides headcrabs and crowbars

44. A lot of people are mistaking Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites for UAPs

45. As ABL Space departs launch, the 1-ton rocket wars have a clear winner

46. FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft’s cloud business

47. I played Half-Life 2 for the first time this year—here’s how it went

48. OpenAI accused of trying to profit off AI model inspection in court

49. Review: Amazon’s 2024 Kindle Paperwhite makes the best e-reader a little better

50. I, too, installed an open source garage door opener, and am loving it

51. Trump team puts EV tax credit on the block, Tesla is on board: Report

52. Microsoft makes it easier to do a clean Windows install on Arm-based PCs

53. A standing desk won’t improve your heart health—but it won’t hurt it either

54. ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher

55. EU fines Meta 800 million for breaking law with Marketplace

56. Faulty Colorsofts have left some Kindle owners without an e-reader

57. Half-Life 2 pushed Steam on the gaming masses… and the masses pushed back

58. Here’s how to survive your relatives’ uninformed anti-EV rant this Thanksgiving

59. After working with a dual-screen portable monitor for a month, I’m a believer

60. Dragon Age: The Veilguard and the choices you make while saving the world

61. IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware

62. Amazon ends free ad-supported streaming service after Prime Video with ads debuts

63. Trump says Elon Musk will lead “DOGE,” a new Department of Government Efficiency

64. What did the snowball Earth look like?

65. How Valve made Half-Life 2 and set a new standard for future games

66. GOG’s Preservation Program is the DRM-free store refocusing on the classics

67. Firefly Aerospace rakes in more cash as competitors struggle for footing

68. Tesla is recalling 2,431 Cybertrucks, and this time there’s no software fix

69. Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history

70. Teen in critical condition with Canada’s first human case of H5 bird flu

71. New single-motor Polestar 3 SUV starts at 67,500, orders open now

72. Seeking favor with Musk and Trump, advertisers plot return to X

73. Revisting the Stanford Prison Experiment 50 years later

74. This elephant figured out how to use a hose to shower

75. New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike

76. For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce

77. What if AI doesn’t just keep getting better forever?

78. Record labels unhappy with court win, say ISP should pay more for user piracy

79. Bitcoin hits record high as Trump vows to end crypto crackdown

80. Spotify’s Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life

81. Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one

82. Calling all Ars readers! Your feedback is needed.

83. Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia

84. Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI

85. Mazda gives the 2025 CX-50 a big efficiency boost to 38 mpg with hybrid power

86. Smaller than an Escalade IQ, bigger than a Lyriq: The 2026 Cadillac Vistiq

87. There are some things the Crew-8 astronauts aren’t ready to talk about

88. FTX sues Binance for 1.76B in battle of crypto exchanges founded by convicts

89. Is “AI welfare” the new frontier in ethics?

90. Man gets 10 years for stealing 20M in nest eggs from 400 US home buyers

91. Air quality problems spur 200 million in funds to cut pollution at ports

92. Russia: Fine, I guess we should have a Grasshopper rocket project, too

93. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

94. Marvel drops Captain America: Brave New World trailer

95. Review: Catching up with the witchy brew of Agatha All Along

96. 43 research monkeys on the lam still “playfully exploring,“ police say

97. Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal

98. New SMB-friendly subscription tier may be too late to stop VMware migrations

99. Matter 1.4 has some solid ideas for the future home—now let’s see the support

100. Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can’t punish us for selling user location data

101. Discord terrorist known as “Rabid” gets 30 years for preying on kids

102. Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y‘all

103. DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were

104. Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users unfollow everything

105. The voice of America Online’s “You’ve got mail” has died at age 74

106. Apple botched the Apple Intelligence launch, but its long-term strategy is sound

107. TSMC will stop making 7 nm chips for Chinese customers

108. Notepad.exe, now an actively maintained app, has gotten its inevitable AI update

109. Rocket Report: Australia says yes to the launch; Russia delivers for Iran

110. After decades, FDA finally moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves

111. Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide

112. Amazon’s Mass Effect TV series is actually going to be made

113. Max needs higher prices, more ads to help support WBD’s flailing businesses

114. Trump’s likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he’d run the agency

115. Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them

116. Man sick of crashes sues Intel for allegedly hiding CPU defects

117. Secondhand EVs will flood the market in 2026, JD Power says

118. What makes baseball’s “magic mud” so special?

119. Recap: Our “AI in DC” conference was great—here’s what you missed

120. Mercedes-Benz previews next CLA, breaks EV distance record in testing

121. ChatGPT has a new vanity domain name, and it may have cost 15 million

122. Airborne microplastics aid in cloud formation

123. Review: M4 and M4 Pro Mac minis are probably Apple’s best Mac minis ever

124. Thoughts on the M4 iMac, and making peace with the death of the 27-inch model

125. Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers

126. For fame or a death wish? Kids’ TikTok challenge injuries stump psychiatrists

127. Fate of Google’s search empire could rest in Trump’s hands

128. Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory

129. The Ars redesign is out. Experience its ad-free glory for just 25/year.

130. The next Starship launch may occur in less than two weeks

131. Corning faces antitrust actions for its Gorilla Glass dominance

132. Trump’s 60% tariffs could push China to hobble tech industry growth

133. Trump’s election win spells bad news for the auto industry

134. The PS5 Pro’s biggest problem is that the PS5 is already very good

135. Nintendo confirms Switch 2 will play original Switch games

136. “Havard”-trained spa owner injected clients with bogus Botox, prosecutors say

137. Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase

138. RTO mandate was attempt at thwarting Grindr workers unionizing: US labor board

139. Suspect arrested in Snowflake data-theft attacks affecting millions

140. Endurance tells story of two expeditions, centuries apart

141. Google has no duty to refund gift card scam victims, judge finds

142. NRO chief: “You can’t hide” from our new swarm of SpaceX-built spy satellites

143. Kia says its new EV camper concept is the “ideal escape pod”

144. Ever heard of “Llady Gaga”? Universal files piracy suit over alleged knockoffs.

145. Driving the biggest, least-efficient electric car: The Hummer EV SUV

146. After 31 cargo missions, NASA finds Dragon still has some new tricks

147. Boeing strike ends after workers vote to accept “life-changing” wage increase

148. Metal Slug Tactics gives turn-based strategy a hyper-stylized shot of adrenaline

149. Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines

150. Drugmaker shut down after black schmutz found in injectable weight-loss drug

151. Facebook, Nvidia push SCOTUS to limit “nuisance” investor suits after scandals

152. New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright

153. Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit

154. The Trek Checkpoint SL 7 AXS Gen 3 may be the perfect gravel bike

155. Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste

156. What this 500-year-old shipwreck can tell us about how we age

157. Elon Musk turns X’s block button into a “glorified mute button”

158. Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run

159. Sick of supersized EVs? The 2025 Hyundai Kona Electric hits the spot.

160. China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX’s Starship

161. Perplexity will show live US election results despite AI accuracy warnings

162. Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data center

163. Laptop, smartphone, and game console prices could soar after the election

164. Here are 3 science-backed strategies to rein in election anxiety

165. Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details

166. US Space Force warns of “mind-boggling” build-up of Chinese capabilities

167. Fungi may not think, but they can communicate

168. iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games

169. As North Korean troops march toward Ukraine, does a Russian quid pro quo reach space?

170. Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks

171. As hospitals struggle with IV fluid shortage, NC plant restarts production

172. Starlink enters National Radio Quiet Zone—but reportedly cut off access for some

173. Beware pirates and booby traps in new Skeleton Crew trailer

174. Apple is acquiring image editing firm Pixelmator

175. Charger recall spells more bad news for Humane’s maligned AI Pin

176. Bats use echolocation to make mental maps for navigation

177. Distracted driving tool shows just how far you can travel while texting

178. AIs show distinct bias against Black and female résumés in new study

179. Microsoft delays rollout of the Windows 11 Recall feature yet again

180. A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones

181. What is happening with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft?

182. Rocket Report: New Glenn shows out; ULA acknowledges some fairing issues

183. Finally, a sign of life for Europe’s sovereign satellite Internet constellation

184. RFK Jr. claims Trump promised to put him in charge of NIH, CDC, and more

185. Not just ChatGPT anymore: Perplexity and Anthropic’s Claude get desktop apps

186. Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

187. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 accounted for 19% of Comcast Internet traffic last week

188. Idaho health district abandons COVID shots amid flood of anti-vaccine nonsense

189. Toxic X users sabotage Community Notes that could derail disinfo, report says

190. Celebrate Halloween with 20 of our favorite horror comedies

191. Pixel phones are getting an actual weather app in 2024, with a bit of AI

192. Over 500 Amazon workers decry “non-data-driven” logic for 5-day RTO policy

193. Russia fines Google an impossible amount in attempt to end YouTube bans

194. OpenAI launches ChatGPT with Search, taking Google head-on

195. Consumers won’t be offered all three years of extended Windows 10 security updates

196. Will the new Nintendo Music app lead to more DMCA takedowns from Nintendo?

197. Generative AI is coming to Google Maps, Google Earth, Waze

198. If Trump dismantles the NOAA, it will affect wildfires and food prices

199. A year after Broadcom’s VMware buy, customers eye exit strategies

200. Microsoft reports big profits amid massive AI investments

201. Slivered onions are likely cause of McDonald’s E. coli outbreak, CDC says

202. Apple silicon Macs will get their ultimate gaming test with Cyberpunk 2077 release

203. Person accidentally poisoned 46 coworkers with toxin-loaded homemade lunch

204. Apple’s M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max compared to past generations, and to each other

205. Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed

206. Android Trojan that intercepts voice calls to banks just got more stealthy

207. Downey Jr. plans to fight AI re-creations from beyond the grave

208. Proton expands its VPN offerings to Apple TV, where the use cases get tricky

209. AT&T praises itself after getting caught taking too much money from FCC program

210. Amid controversial changes, Reddit is getting more popular—and profitable

211. Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI

212. While ULA studies Vulcan booster anomaly, it’s also investigating fairing issues

213. M2 and M3 MacBook Air models get bumped to 16GB of RAM for no extra money

214. Hyundai teases a three-row Ioniq 9 electric SUV

215. Apple refreshes MacBook Pro lineup with M4 chips, introduces the M4 Max

216. AI, cloud boost Alphabet profits by 34 percent

217. New Glenn rolls to the launch pad as end-of-year deadline approaches

218. The sad, bizarre tale of hype fanning fears modern cryptography was slain

219. These hornets break down alcohol so fast that they can’t get drunk

220. GitHub Copilot moves beyond OpenAI models to support Claude 3.5, Gemini

221. The Ars redesign 9.0.2 brings the text options you’ve requested

222. “Impact printing” is a cement-free alternative to 3D-printed structures

223. TSA silent on CrowdStrike’s claim Delta skipped required security update

224. How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool

225. Ban on Chinese tech so broad, US-made cars would be blocked, Polestar says

226. Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV

227. A candy engineer explains the science behind the Snickers bar

228. How can you write data to DNA without changing the base sequence?

229. For some reason, NASA is treating Orion’s heat shield problems as a secret

230. Lidar mapping reveals mountainous medieval cities along the Silk Road

231. Apple is turning The Oregon Trail into a movie

232. Google accused of shadow campaigns redirecting antitrust scrutiny to Microsoft

233. NASA’s oldest active astronaut is also one of the most curious humans

234. THC-tainted pizza sickens dozens in Wisc.; Owner blames oil bottle mix-up

235. Some of Apple’s last hold-out accessories have switched from Lightning to USB-C

236. Graphene-enhanced ceramic tiles make striking art

237. Apple releases iOS 18.1, macOS 15.1 with Apple Intelligence

238. Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings

239. Don’t fall for AI scams cloning cops’ voices, police warn

240. Kremlin-backed hackers have new Windows and Android malware to foist on Ukrainian foes

241. Apple’s 1,299 M4 iMac at long last bumps the base model to 16GB of RAM

242. Are we on the verge of a self-improving AI explosion?

243. Raspberry Pi OS’s yearslong switch from X Window to Wayland is now official

244. Ford adds EV routing to Google Maps for Android Auto users

245. 18-year prison sentence for man who used AI to create child abuse images

246. SpaceX has caught a massive rocket. So what’s next?

247. Are Boeing’s problems beyond fixable?

248. A how-to for ethical geoengineering research

249. 40 years later, The Terminator still shapes our view of AI

250. Astronaut hospitalized after returning from 235-day space mission

251. Ars Live: What else can GLP-1 drugs do? Join us Tuesday for a discussion.

252. For the first time, beloved IDE Jetbrains Rider will be available for free

253. Why is Elon Musk talking to Vladimir Putin, and what does it mean for SpaceX?

254. US Copyright Office “frees the McFlurry,” allowing repair of ice cream machines

255. Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical game collections online

256. Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers

257. McDonald’s outbreak rises to 75 cases; 12 new hospitalizations, 3 new states

258. X Payments delayed after Musk’s X weirdly withdrew application for NY license

259. Missouri AG claims Google censors Trump, demands info on search algorithm

260. Wait, is the Astra rocket company really back from the dead?

261. Study: DNA corroborates “Well-man” tale from Norse saga

262. Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote scientific racism in AI search results

263. Fallout: London is a huge Fallout 4 mod that is now playable—and worth playing

264. Rocket Report: Sneak peek at the business end of New Glenn; France to fly FROG

265. What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs

266. Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other

267. Scout Motors’ new pickup and SUV EVs will start at “under $60,000”

268. Boeing is still bleeding money on the Starliner commercial crew program

269. Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King pull onions amid McDonald’s outbreak

270. Good Omens will wrap with a single 90-minute episode

271. With four more years like 2023, carbon emissions will blow past 1.5° limit

272. Bird flu hit a dead end in Missouri, but it’s running rampant in California

273. Apple teases “week of announcements” about the Mac starting on Monday

274. Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics

275. Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule

276. Google offers its AI watermarking tech as free open source toolkit

277. When ribosomes go rogue

278. Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.

279. At TED AI 2024, experts grapple with AI’s growing pains

280. Tesla makes $2.2 billion in profit during Q3 2024

281. Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says

282. For the strongest disc golf throws, it’s all in the thumbs

283. Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC

284. iOS 18.2 developer beta adds ChatGPT and image-generation features

285. NFL player illegally streams his own team’s game, garners mostly sympathy

286. Report: Arm cancels Qualcomm’s architecture license, endangering its chip business

287. San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks

288. McDonald’s deadly Quarter Pounder E. coli outbreak is likely bigger than we know

289. Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as Bitcoin creator

290. “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock

291. After nozzle failure, Space Force is “assessing” impacts to Vulcan schedule

292. De-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine efforts

293. Shady drugmaker used code words to sell knockoff weight-loss drug: Lawsuit

294. Streaming subscription fees have been rising while content quality is dropping

295. Meet the winners of Nikon’s 2024 photomicrography contest

296. Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user’s mouse cursor

297. Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked

298. FortiGate admins report active exploitation 0-day. Vendor isn’t talking.

299. Reading Lord of the Rings aloud: Yes, I sang all the songs

300. Qualcomm brings laptop-class CPU cores to phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite