1. 50K YouTubers rage against AI spying that could expose identities

2. They’re golden: Fictional band from K-Pop Demon Hunters tops the charts

3. Rad Power’s Radster: A very non-radical commuter bike

4. Musk threatens to sue Apple so Grok can get top App Store ranking

5. China tells Alibaba, ByteDance to justify purchases of Nvidia AI chips

6. High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

7. The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess

8. Boar’s Head to reopen plant as mold and funky meat problems pop up elsewhere

9. AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years

10. Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping

11. GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down

12. Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

13. Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?

14. LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

15. RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting linked to vaccine disinfo

16. Trump strikes “wild” deal making US firms pay 15% tax on China chip sales

17. Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes

18. Ford bets big on “Universal EV Production System” and 30k truck

19. Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean

20. Netflix drops One Piece S2 teaser, renews for S3

21. How old is the earliest trace of life on Earth?

22. NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—a space lawyer explains why

23. Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

24. New adhesive surface modeled on a remora works underwater

25. James Lovell, the steady astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home safely, has died

26. For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite

27. Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh-eating flies appears imminent

28. Apple brings OpenAI’s GPT-5 to iOS and macOS

29. Green dildos are raining down on WNBA courts. Why? Crypto memecoins, of course.

30. Review: The Sandman S2 is a classic tragedy, beautifully told

31. Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court

32. It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

33. Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside racy .svg files

34. Toymaker suddenly drops lawsuit against “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker

35. Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”

36. AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

37. ChatGPT users hate GPT-5’s “overworked secretary” energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy

38. Google and Valve will kill “Steam for Chromebooks” experiment in January 2026

39. Texas politicians warn Smithsonian it must not lobby to retain its space shuttle

40. National Academies to fast-track a new climate assessment

41. Ford switches gears, will push smaller EVs over full-size pickup and van

42. Rocket Report: Firefly lights the markets up; SpaceX starts selling trips to Mars

43. New executive order puts all grants under political control

44. FCC Democrat: Trump admin is declaring “Mission Accomplished” on broadband

45. Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis

46. Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

47. After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis

48. Did a rival tribe kill and eat their neighbors 5,700 years ago?

49. OpenAI launches GPT-5 free to all ChatGPT users

50. 2025 Porsche Panamera Turbo S: A different approach to a luxury sedan

51. Sonos says it’s forced to raise prices while trying to win back customers

52. Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue.

53. Review: Framework Desktop is a mash-up of a regular desktop PC and the Mac Studio

54. 2025 Subaru WRX tS review: A scalpel-sharp chassis lets this car dance

55. President Trump says Intel’s new CEO “must resign immediately”

56. RFK Jr. defends 500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook

57. Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect

58. Tornado Cash sold crypto “privacy”; the US saw “money laundering.” A jury isn’t sure what to think.

59. US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just 1 per agency

60. Hulu’s days look numbered, but there’s reason for Disney to keep it around

61. Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

62. Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks

63. NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations

64. Cockatoos know 30 distinct dance moves

65. Nvidia warns of “disaster” if it has to put kill switch and backdoor in chips

66. Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil

67. Trump’s trade and environment policies are a disaster for carmakers

68. Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet

69. States take the lead in AI regulation as federal government steers clear

70. Houston, you’ve got a space shuttle… only NASA won’t say which one

71. In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food

72. RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025

73. Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices

74. Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment”

75. Murena’s Pixel Tablet is helping to wean me off Google

76. Analysis: The Trump administration’s assault on climate action

77. Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked

78. Roku gets frugal with the content and price of its new streaming service

79. Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

80. Jury finds Meta broke wiretap law by collecting data from period-tracker app

81. OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.

82. OpenAI announces two “gpt-oss” open AI models, and you can download them today

83. Report: Intel struggles with new 18A process as it cuts workers and cancels projects

84. 2025 Morgan Plus Four review: Apparently, they do still make them like this

85. Invasion S3 trailer hints the series is finally finding its stride

86. Rivian tells Ohio: Stop blocking us from selling cars to your citizens

87. Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

88. DeepMind reveals Genie 3 “world model” that creates real-time interactive simulations

89. “Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally

90. Lunar Outpost celebrates release of Lego Moon Rover Space Vehicle

91. Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

92. AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

93. Tesla awards Musk 29B in attempt to “keep Elon’s energies focused on Tesla”

94. F1 in Hungary: Strategy and fast tire changes make all the difference

95. Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility

96. Idaho has become the wild frontier of vaccination policy and public health

97. These are the best streaming services you aren’t watching

98. BMW’s next EV is its most sustainable car yet—here’s why

99. Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

100. With Trump’s cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when they’ll come back

101. At 250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

102. RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026

103. Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

104. Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in 329 million verdict

105. Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike

106. The curious case of Russia’s charm offensive with NASA this week

107. Delta denies using AI to come up with inflated, personalized prices

108. ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

109. Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa conversations

110. Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

111. Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles

112. Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think for AI Ultra subscribers

113. Backpage scandal ends in largest US payout to trafficking victims

114. Lotus still knows how to make a driver’s car: The 2025 Emira V6, driven

115. Microsoft kills Windows 11 SE, another in a long line of failed ChromeOS competitors

116. The military’s squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert

117. Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power

118. Rocket Report: NASA finally working on depots, Air Force tests new ICBM

119. The King is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

120. Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises

121. Mark of the damned? Necrotic ulcer replaces man’s cross tattoo.

122. Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies

123. YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say

124. Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store

125. Formula E wraps up season 11—where does the all-EV series go next?

126. Blame the governor! Oklahoma’s “board meeting porn” scandal goes gonzo.

127. US moves to ban shady subscription auto-renewals after FTC court loss

128. Trump suspends trade loophole for cheap online retailers globally

129. Nvidia announces end of GPU driver updates for GeForce 10-series, Windows 10

130. China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market

131. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 review: Quantum leap

132. In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network

133. CDC finally gets a director; FDA’s top vaccine regulator exits under pressure

134. St. Paul, MN was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

135. Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

136. Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search

137. Peacock feathers can emit laser beams

138. 15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

139. So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work

140. How to get another free year of updates for your Windows 10 PC

141. Is Roman concrete more sustainable? It’s complicated.

142. India safely launches a 1.5 billion satellite for NASA

143. Australia’s first orbital-class rocket stalled seconds after liftoff

144. Google confirms it will sign the EU AI Code of Practice

145. Not (just) seeing red: Virtual Boy emulator adds full color support

146. VPN use soars in UK after age-verification laws go into effect

147. Tesla to buy storage battery cells from LGES in 4.3 billion deal

148. Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

149. “It’s shocking”: Massive raw milk outbreak from 2023 finally reported

150. AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents

151. “It’s shocking”; Massive raw milk outbreak from 2023 finally reported

152. Trump claims Europe won’t make Big Tech pay ISPs; EU says it still might

153. EPA plans to ignore science, stop regulating greenhouse gases

154. The case for memes as a new form of comics

155. Apple releases iOS 18.6, macOS 15.6, and other updates as current gen winds down

156. ChatGPT’s new Study Mode is designed to help you learn, not just give answers

157. Acquisition sends thousands of Whistle pet trackers to IoT graveyard

158. 2025 Polestar 3 drives sporty, looks sharp, can be a little annoying

159. Revamped Task Manager, second-monitor notifications coming soon to Windows 11

160. Trump promised a drilling boom, but US energy industry hasn’t been interested

161. The first company to complete a fully successful lunar landing is going public

162. Review: Fantastic Four: First Steps is the best film version so far

163. Bankrupt Futurehome suddenly makes its smart home hub a subscription service

164. Trump caving on Nvidia H20 export curbs may disrupt his bigger trade war

165. Blender developers begin work on full-fledged mobile version

166. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test

167. How the Trump FCC justified requiring a “bias monitor” at CBS

168. Nude women streamed to office TV derail Oklahoma Board of Education meeting

169. Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel

170. Trump admin. is muffling CDC’s flagship health journal, report finds

171. Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

172. Smithsonian Air and Space opens halls for “milestone” and “future” artifacts

173. Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says

174. Fermented meat with a side of maggots: A new look at the Neanderthal diet

175. A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

176. F1 in Belgium: The best racetrack in the world

177. Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned

178. Peacemaker S2 trailer finds our anti-hero in a parallel world

179. 20 years after Katrina, NatGeo and New Orleans remember

180. Robots eating other robots: The benefits of machine metabolism

181. Microsoft to stop using China-based teams to support Department of Defense

182. This aerogel and some sun could make saltwater drinkable

183. After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges

184. Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursday

185. North Korean hackers ran US-based “laptop farm” from Arizona woman’s home

186. Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha

187. Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update

188. OpenAI’s most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in August

189. Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter

190. Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say

191. Mistral’s new “environmental audit” shows how much AI is hurting the planet

192. The electric Stark Varg EX is brutally fast but a little too unrefined

193. Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand

194. Inventor claims bleach injections will destroy cancer tumors

195. Skydance deal allows Trump’s FCC to “censor speech” and “silence dissent” on CBS

196. Going chain-free with the Priority Apollo gravel bike

197. The 2025 Audi RS 3 is a five-cylinder firecracker

198. Rocket Report: Channeling the future at Wallops; SpaceX recovers rocket wreckage

199. Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket

200. Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

201. Hackers—hope to defect to Russia? Don’t Google “defecting to Russia.”

202. Google’s new “Web Guide” will use AI to organize your search results

203. Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok

204. Trump’s order to make chatbots anti-woke is unconstitutional, senator says

205. Nvidia AI chips worth 1B smuggled to China after Trump export controls

206. Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

207. Some VMware perpetual license owners are unable to download security patches

208. Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles

209. Six lesser-known features to like in the macOS 26 Tahoe public beta

210. iPadOS 26 preview: The rare software update that makes (most) old hardware feel new

211. Apple releases public betas of Liquid Glass-ified next-gen software updates

212. RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group sues him: “This is not the Bobby we know”

213. White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation

214. SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather

215. OpenAI and partners are building a massive AI data center in Texas

216. Tesla Q2 2025: Sell fewer cars and carbon credits, make less money

217. Julian LeFay, “the father of The Elder Scrolls,” has died at 59

218. What to know about ToolShell, the SharePoint threat under mass exploitation

219. After 380M hack, Clorox sues its “service desk” vendor for simply giving out passwords

220. AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today

221. Ukrainians arrest alleged admin of major crime forum XSS

222. Whistleblower scientists outline Trump’s plan to politicize and dismantle NSF

223. What exactly is Golden Dome? This Space Force general owes Trump an answer.

224. New “AppleCare One” plan bundles three extended warranties for 20 a month

225. Conduct rules are coming for Google and Apple in the UK

226. Audi has a new midsize EV, and we’ve driven it: The 2025 A6 Sportback

227. 2025 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante: A-M’s ultimate GT goes topless

228. Toy company may regret coming for “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker, experts say

229. A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal.

230. Apple Intelligence news summaries are back, with a big red disclaimer

231. Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe

232. Marine biologist for a day: Ars goes shark tagging

233. California backs down to Trump admin, won’t force ISPs to offer 15 broadband

234. Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

235. Ars Live: Consumer tech firms stuck scrambling ahead of looming chip tariffs

236. “Surface Laptop 5G” for businesses shows Microsoft isn’t done with Intel yet

237. Trump wants to “eliminate or expedite” environmental rules for rocket launches

238. LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology damaged by fire

239. Tesla skepticism continues to grow, robotaxi demo fails to impress Austin

240. xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show

241. Win for chemical industry as EPA shutters scientific research office

242. Nearly 3,000 people are leaving NASA, and this director is one of them

243. Mercedes-AMG gives us a ride in its next high-performance EV

244. Google gets ahead of the leaks and reveals the Pixel 10 early

245. FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

246. SharePoint vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating under exploit across globe

247. Gemini Deep Think learns math, wins gold medal at International Math Olympiad

248. Here’s why there are so few new cars for under 30,000

249. Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot

250. Researcher threatens X with lawsuit after falsely linking him to French probe

251. OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

252. UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

253. It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says

254. X-Men at 25 is more relevant than ever

255. Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

256. RFK Jr. wants to change program that stopped vaccine makers from leaving US market

257. As White House talks about impounding NASA funding, Congress takes the threat seriously

258. Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

259. Phishers have found a way to downgrade—not bypass—FIDO MFA

260. After 5 years in development, the Assassin’s Creed TV series is happening

261. Netflix’s first show with generative AI is a sign of what’s to come in TV, film

262. Experts lay into Tesla safety in federal autopilot trial

263. Trump admin squanders nearly 800,000 vaccines meant for Africa: Report

264. Court rules Trump broke US law when he fired Democratic FTC commissioner

265. Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign

266. After a partly successful test flight, European firm eyes space station mission

267. Local cuisine was on the menu at Cafe Neanderthal

268. Trump to sign stablecoin bill that may make it easier to bribe the president

269. Rocket Report: SpaceX won’t land at Johnston Atoll; new North Sea launch site

270. Nothing Phone 3 review: Nothing ventured, nothing gained

271. Jared Leto is the ultimate solder in new TRON: Ares trailer

272. Trump’s claims of a Coca-Cola agreement quickly go flat as nutritionists groan

273. Dictionary.com “devastated” paid users by abruptly deleting saved words lists

274. GitHub abused to distribute payloads on behalf of malware-as-a-service

275. How Android phones became an earthquake warning system

276. Trump admin to finally cap price of weird bandages that cost 10 billion last year

277. ChatGPT’s new AI agent can browse the web and create PowerPoint slideshows

278. The Pixel Watch 4 might not become e-waste if you damage it

279. Cocky cop jailed for stealing bitcoins had log of his crypto theft in his office

280. Karl Urban is a wise-cracking Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat II

281. Samsung’s Odyssey 3D monitor delivers great visuals, limited game support

282. Synths hunt down deadly monsters in latest Alien: Earth trailer

283. Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS

284. Why it takes 3,295 people to write one Google AI paper

285. Fanfic study challenges leading cultural evolution theory

286. Will AI end cheap flights? Critics attack Delta’s “predatory” AI pricing.

287. Feds tell automakers to forget about paying fuel economy fines

288. EU presses pause on probe of X as US trade talks heat up

289. Everything we learned from a week with Apple CarPlay Ultra

290. More VMware cloud partners axed as Broadcom launches new invite-only program

291. 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA feels like a real car, not a science experiment

292. Google finds custom backdoor being installed on SonicWall network devices

293. Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors

294. Permit for xAI’s data center blatantly violates Clean Air Act, NAACP says

295. Linda Hamilton rocks Stranger Things’ S5 extended teaser

296. Introducing the Ars Technica Posting Guidelines version 3.0

297. Trump sues Corporation for Public Broadcasting directors who refused to be fired

298. Amazon’s ride on the rocket merry-go-round continues with SpaceX launch

299. YouTuber faces jail time for showing off Android-based gaming handhelds

300. Mac graphics settings for Cyberpunk 2077 aim for console-like simplicity