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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21. Physics of the perfect cacio e pepe sauce

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

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

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

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

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

27. Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50

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

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

30. ChatGPT goes shopping with new product-browsing feature

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

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

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

34. 50 years later, Vietnam’s environment still bears the scars of war

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

36. 2025 VW Golf R first drive: The R stands for “really good fun”

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

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

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

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

41. Revisiting iZombie, 10 years later

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

54. Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible

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

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

57. A grim signal: Atmospheric CO2 soared in 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

70. Bone collector caterpillar adorns itself in insect body parts

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

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

73. 2025 VW Golf GTI: Buttons are back on the menu, smiles never went away

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

90. 4chan may be dead, but its toxic legacy lives on

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

98. Harvard sues to block government funding cuts

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

100. 12-year-old Doom 2 challenge map finally beaten after six-hour, 23K-demon grind

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

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

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

104. 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV SS first drive: A big ride and handling upgrade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

117. Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech

118. Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

127. Rover finds hints of an ancient Martian carbon cycle

128. Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

143. US Interior secretary orders offshore wind project shut down

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

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

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

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

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

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

150. Sony releases new trailer for 28 Years Later

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

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

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

154. Climate change will make rice toxic, say researchers

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

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

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

158. Disgruntled users roast X for killing Support account

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

160. 14 reasons why Trump’s tariffs won’t bring manufacturing back

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

162. RoboBee sticks the landing

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

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

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

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

167. CVE, global source of cybersecurity info, was hours from being cut by DHS

168. Feds charge New Mexico man for allegedly torching Tesla dealership

169. Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI’s frustrating security hole

170. Looking at the Universe’s dark ages from the far side of the Moon

171. Autism rate rises slightly; RFK Jr. claims he’ll “have answers by September“

172. Google adds Veo 2 video generation to Gemini app

173. White House calls NPR and PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding

174. The physics of bowling strike after strike

175. 4chan has been down since Monday night after “pretty comprehensive own”

176. Netflix plans to bring streaming into the 1 trillion club by 2030

177. Here’s how a satellite ended up as a ghostly apparition on Google Earth

178. Nvidia nudges mainstream gaming PCs forward with RTX 5060 series, starting at 299

179. Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for 3 days

180. ISPs and robocallers love the FCC plan to “delete” as many rules as possible

181. FCC head Brendan Carr tells Europe to get on board with Starlink

182. Tuesday Telescope: Is the James Webb Space Telescope worth 10 billion?

183. CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty

184. Harvard says no chance it will comply with changes feds demand

185. Should we settle Mars, or is it a dumb idea for humans to live off world?

186. When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it’s OpenAI’s newest model.

187. Lunar Gateway’s skeleton is complete—its next stop may be Trump’s chopping block

188. Razer built a game-streaming app on top of Moonlight, and it’s not too bad

189. Scientists made a stretchable lithium battery you can bend, cut, or stab

190. Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial

191. Samsung’s Android 15 update has been halted

192. Report: Apple will take another crack at iPad multitasking in iPadOS 19

193. Amid Trump tariff chaos, Nvidia launches AI chip production on US soil

194. F1 in Bahrain: I dare you to call that race boring

195. Live demos test effectiveness of Revolutionary War weapons

196. NOAA scientists scrub toilets, rethink experiments after service contracts end

197. Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins

198. HBO’s The Last of Us is back for season 2, and so are we

199. An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

200. After market tumult, Trump exempts smartphones from massive new tariffs

201. AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say

202. Turbulent global economy could drive up prices for Netflix and rivals

203. Holy water brimming with cholera compels illness cluster in Europe

204. That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows

205. Chrome’s new dynamic bottom bar gives websites a little more room to breathe

206. Powerful programming: BBC-controlled electric meters are coming to an end

207. Apple silent as Trump promises “impossible” US-made iPhones

208. A guide to the “platonic ideal” of a Negroni and other handy tips

209. FTC now has three Republicans and no Democrats instead of the typical 3-2 split

210. Quantum hardware may be a good match for AI

211. Experimental drug looks to be gastric bypass surgery in pill form

212. Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA

213. Wheel of Time recap: The show nails one of the books’ biggest and bestest battles

214. The Trek Madone SLR 9 Gen 8 tears up the roads and conquers climbs

215. Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

216. “What the hell are you doing?” How I learned to interview astronauts, scientists, and billionaires

217. Rocket Report: “No man’s land” in rocket wars; Isaacman lukewarm on SLS

218. ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats

219. Researchers concerned to find AI models hiding their true “reasoning” processes

220. OnePlus releases Watch 3 with inflated 500 price tag, won’t say why

221. Five stand-out games revealed at today’s Triple-i Showcase

222. New simulation of Titanic’s sinking confirms historical testimony

223. Google takes advantage of federal cost-cutting with steep Workspace discount

224. Hands-on: Handwriting recognition app brings sticky notes into the 21st century

225. FDA backpedals on RTO to stop talent hemorrhage after HHS bloodbath

226. Amazon’s Chinese sellers to raise prices or quit US market as tariffs hit 145%

227. Elon Musk wants to be “AGI dictator,” OpenAI tells court

228. The 2025 Mini Countryman SE: Whimsy doesn’t make up for annoying

229. Framework’s cheaper, colorful Laptop 12 up for preorder, starts at 549 bare-bones

230. Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE

231. Google Pixel 9a review: All the phone you need

232. Painted altar in Maya city of Tikal reveals aftermath of ancient coup

233. Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates

234. Here are the reasons SpaceX won nearly all recent military launch contracts

235. Revolt brews against RFK Jr. as experts pen rally cries in top medical journal

236. Google announces faster, more efficient Gemini AI model

237. NASA nominee asks why lunar return has taken so long, and why it costs so much

238. Take It Down Act nears passage; critics warn Trump could use it against enemies

239. Trump boosts China tariffs to 125%, pauses tariff hikes on other countries

240. OpenAI’s GPT helps spammers send blast of 80,000 messages that bypassed filters

241. After months of user complaints, Anthropic debuts new 200/month AI plan

242. Windows 11’s Copilot Vision wants to help you learn to use complicated apps

243. Apple TV releases first trailer for sci-fi comedy Murderbot

244. Why Trump’s tariffs probably won’t cause an immediate Switch 2 price bump

245. Meta secretly helped China advance AI, ex-Facebooker will tell Congress

246. Fruit flies can be made to act like miniature robots

247. Google unveils Ironwood, its most powerful AI processor yet

248. Road deaths fell below 40,000 in 2024, the lowest since 2019

249. Trump throws coal a lifeline, but the energy industry has moved on

250. The Ars cargo e-bike buying guide for the bike-curious (or serious)

251. Mario Kart World’s 80 price isn’t that high, historically

252. “The girl should be calling men.” Leak exposes Black Basta’s influence tactics.

253. Fewer beans great coffee if you get the pour height right

254. Twitch makes deal to escape Elon Musk suit alleging X ad boycott conspiracy

255. Victory for DOGE as appeals court reinstates access to personal data

256. Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”

257. Creating a distinctive aesthetic for Daredevil: Born Again

258. Japanese railway shelter replaced in less than 6 hours by 3D-printed model

259. 97% of drivers want in-car payment system for tolls, parking, charging

260. Back to basics: Microsoft tests overhauled Start menu in Windows 11 beta builds

261. Parents give kids more melatonin than ever, with unknown long-term effects

262. The 2025 Moto G Stylus has a sharper display and “enhanced” stylus for 400

263. Don’t call it a drone: Zipline’s uncrewed aircraft wants to reinvent retail

264. Tuesday Telescope: Does this Milky Way image remind you of Powers of 10?

265. A military satellite waiting to launch with ULA will now fly with SpaceX

266. Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs

267. Nintendo explains why Switch 2 hardware and software cost so much

268. FreeDOS 1.4 brings new fixes and features to modern and vintage DOS-based PCs

269. Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality

270. De-extinction company announces that the dire wolf is back

271. Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling”

272. Google’s AI Mode search can now answer questions about images

273. Trump gives China one day to end retaliations or face extra 50% tariffs

274. Paramount drops action-packed Mission: Impossible—Final Reckoning trailer

275. Second child dies of measles—anti-vaccine advocate reported it before officials

276. White House figures out how it texted secret bombing plans to a reporter

277. A begrudging defense of Nintendo’s “Game-Key cards” for the Switch 2

278. F1 in Japan reminds us a great track might not make for a great race

279. Nintendo isn’t using anti-drift Hall effect sensors on Switch 2 joysticks

280. Our top 10 Jackie Chan movies

281. DOGE gearing up for hackathon at IRS, wants easier access to taxpayer data

282. The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC’s news distortion policy

283. How did eastern North America form?

284. Go back to the Grid in TRON: Ares trailer

285. Dustland Delivery asks which is worse: Gas prices or gangs of rotting mutants

286. Editorial: Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation

287. With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military’s top launch provider

288. Midjourney introduces first new image generation model in over a year

289. Judge calls out OpenAI’s “straw man” argument in New York Times copyright suit

290. Not just Switch 2: ESA warns Trump’s tariffs will hurt the entire game industry

291. NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?

292. Remembering MS-DOS 5.0, my first Microsoft product, on the company’s 50th birthday

293. Gemini “coming together in really awesome ways,” Googler says after 2.5 Pro release

294. EU may “make an example of X” by issuing 1 billion fine to Musk’s social network

295. NJ teen wins fight to put nudify app users in prison, impose fines up to 30K

296. “Existential crisis”: The tariff scythe takes a swing at board games

297. We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built

298. Newly hatched hummingbird looks, acts like a toxic caterpillar

299. 2025 Chevrolet Silverado EV LT review: This is one long pickup truck

300. Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty