1. US can’t deport hate speech researcher for protected speech, lawsuit says

2. Leonardo’s wood charring method predates Japanese practice

3. Researchers make “neuromorphic” artificial skin for robots

4. China drafts world’s strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence

5. A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science

6. GPS is vulnerable to jamming—here’s how we might fix it

7. Remembering what Windows 10 did right—and how it made modern Windows more annoying

8. I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

9. Big Tech basically took Trump’s unpredictable trade war lying down

10. Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes

11. In the ’90s, Wing Commander: Privateer made me realize what kind of games I love

12. Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025

13. Being Santa Claus is a year-round calling

14. SPEED Act passes in House despite changes that threaten clean power projects

15. TV Technica: Our favorite shows of 2025

16. How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

17. China just carried out its second reusable launch attempt in three weeks

18. Steve Rogers returns in Avengers: Doomsday teaser

19. FCC’s import ban on the best new drones starts today

20. OpenAI’s child exploitation reports increased sharply this year

21. “Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment

22. F1’s new engines are causing consternation over compression ratios

23. The Splay is a subpar monitor but an exciting portable projector

24. In a surprise announcement, Tory Bruno is out as CEO of United Launch Alliance

25. Call of Duty co-creator and Battlefield lead Vince Zampella dies in car crash

26. Safety panel says NASA should have taken Starliner incident more seriously

27. World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs

28. US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified

29. Odyssey trailer brings the myth to vivid life

30. Apple hit with 115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy

31. NASA rewraps Boeing Starliner Astrovan II for Artemis II ride to launch pad

32. Power outage paralyzes Waymo robotaxis when traffic lights go out

33. No one loves President Trump more than FCC Chairman Brendan Carr

34. When clouds flock together

35. Discworld, Daleks, and Deep 13: A geeky holiday TV and movie watchlist

36. How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade

37. Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi

38. The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers

39. Switch 2 pub backs off Game Key Cards after leaking lower-cost cartridge options

40. LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

41. Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs

42. Not too big, not too expensive: The Chevrolet Equinox EV

43. Trump’s energy secretary orders a Washington state coal plant to remain open

44. Instacart agrees to refund subscribers 60 million in FTC settlement

45. Strava puts popular “Year in Sport” recap behind an 80 paywall

46. We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive

47. Russia is about to do the most Russia thing ever with its next space station

48. Rocket Report: Russia pledges quick fix for Soyuz launch pad; Ariane 6 aims high

49. ByteDance confirms TikTok will be controlled by US owners

50. Two space startups prove you don’t need to break the bank to rendezvous in space

51. These are the flying discs the government wants you to know about

52. Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall

53. Trump commits to Moon landing by 2028, followed by a lunar outpost two years later

54. YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers

55. Peacock showing ads upon launch opens the door for more disruptive streaming ads

56. RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders

57. School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error.

58. LLMs’ impact on science: Booming publications, stagnating quality

59. NeuralDSP models John Mayer’s entire amp and effects rig—and it sounds great

60. NASA will soon find out if the Perseverance rover can really persevere on Mars

61. For the lazy techie: These are Ars staff’s last-minute holiday gift picks

62. Does swearing make you stronger? Science says yes.

63. Formula 1 is deploying new jargon for 2026

64. The inside story of SpaceX’s historic rocket landing that changed launch forever

65. NASA finally—and we really do mean it this time—has a full-time leader

66. Physicists 3D-printed a Christmas tree of ice

67. OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy

68. Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil

69. FCC deletes “independent agency” from website as Carr defends allegiance to Trump

70. Donut Lab’s hub motor meets WATT’s battery to create new EV skateboard

71. Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says

72. Trump admin threatens to break up major climate research center

73. Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, promising improved intelligence and efficiency

74. Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

75. Electric vehicles cause tension in the automotive aftermarket

76. Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp

77. US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s “pro-petroleum” moves

78. “A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot

79. Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent

80. The 4.3 billion space telescope Trump tried to cancel is now complete

81. Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

82. Leaked debug kit suggests Apple is testing a new “iMac Pro,” among many other Macs

83. Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title

84. Utah leaders hinder efforts to develop solar energy supply

85. 2026 Mercedes CLA first drive: Entry level doesn’t mean basic

86. Merriam-Webster crowns “slop” word of the year as AI content floods Internet

87. Stranger Things S5 trailer teases Vol. 2

88. Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

89. Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business

90. Microsoft takes down mod that recreated Halo 3 in Counter-Strike 2

91. Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die

92. Filmmaker Rob Reiner, wife, killed in horrific home attack

93. UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones

94. Google will end dark web reports that alerted users to leaked data

95. Oh look, yet another Starship clone has popped up in China

96. Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy

97. Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won

98. Sharks and rays gain landmark protections as nations move to curb international trade

99. OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

100. Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes

101. Google Translate expands live translation to all earbuds on Android

102. Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles

103. Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands

104. A study in contrasts: The cinematography of Wake Up Dead Man

105. Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to

106. Man shocks doctors with extreme blood pressure, stroke from energy drinks

107. Epic celebrates “the end of the Apple Tax” after appeals court win in iOS payments case

108. Senator endorses discredited doctor’s book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer

109. Investors commit quarter-billion dollars to startup designing “Giga” satellites

110. How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking

111. Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids

112. Rocket Report: Neutron’s Hungry Hippo is deemed ready, Whither Orbex?

113. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announced as a KOTOR spiritual successor

114. Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you

115. With GWM-1 family of “world models,” Runway shows ambitions beyond Hollywood

116. Instead of fixing WoW’s new floating house exploit, Blizzard makes it official

117. OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

118. Supergirl teaser gives us a likably imperfect Kara Zor-El

119. Disney says Google AI infringes copyright “on a massive scale”

120. Ars Live: 3 former CDC leaders detail impacts of RFK Jr.’s anti-science agenda

121. Gazelle’s Arroyo offers a belt drive, continuous variable transmission

122. Fewer EVs need fewer batteries: Ford and SK On end their joint venture

123. No sterile neutrinos after all, say MicroBooNE physicists

124. Disney invests 1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

125. Oracle shares slide on 15B increase in data center spending

126. NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one

127. After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why?

128. Conservative attacks on NPR and PBS continue with call to take FCC licenses

129. A new open AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options

130. Cable channel subscribers grew for the first time in 8 years last quarter

131. Kindle Scribe Colorsoft brings color e-ink to Amazon’s 11-inch e-reader

132. US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,” experts say

133. After key Russian launch site is damaged, NASA accelerates Dragon supply missions

134. Ugly infotainment mars the 2025 Subaru Forester Hybrid experience

135. This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires

136. Sperm donor with rare cancer mutation fathered nearly 200 children in Europe

137. Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power

138. Dr. Oz tells his federal employees to eat less during the holidays

139. AMD’s next-gen “FSR Redstone” brings big gains, as long as you’re using a new GPU

140. Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo

141. Win hardware, collectibles, and more in the 2025 Ars Technica Charity Drive

142. Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages

143. Big Tech joins forces with Linux Foundation to standardize AI agents

144. Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat

145. NASA astronauts will have their own droid when they go back to the Moon

146. Court: “Because Trump said to” may not be a legally valid defense

147. Google is reviving wearable gesture controls, but only for the Pixel Watch 4

148. Brazil weakens Amazon protections days after COP30

149. Pompeii construction site confirms recipe for Roman concrete

150. In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars

151. Asked why we need Golden Dome, the man in charge points to a Hollywood film

152. Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under 100

153. ICEBlock lawsuit: Trump admin bragged about demanding App Store removal

154. Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover

155. F1 in Abu Dhabi: And that’s the championship

156. Lectric XPress 750: A full-sized bike for the budget-minded

157. Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation

158. The Boys gears up for a Supe-ocalypse in S5 teaser

159. Please send help. I can’t stop playing these roguelikes.

160. Why is my dog like this? Current DNA tests won’t explain it to you.

161. A massive, Chinese-backed port could push the Amazon Rainforest over the edge

162. Streaming service makes rare decision to lower its monthly fees

163. Netflix’s 72B WB acquisition confounds the future of movie theaters, streaming

164. Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death

165. SteamOS vs. Windows on dedicated GPUs: It’s complicated, but Windows has an edge

166. Without evidence, RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel tosses Heb B vaccine recommendation

167. Elon Musk’s X first to be fined under EU’s Digital Service Act

168. Toyota’s new GR GT picks up where the 2000GT and Lexus LFA left off

169. Knight of the Seven Kingdoms trailer brings levity to Westeros

170. New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region

171. Rocket Report: Blunder at Baikonur; do launchers really need rocket engines?

172. Congress warned that NASA’s current plan for Artemis “cannot work”

173. In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool

174. Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private

175. CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it’s doing, delays big vote

176. Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive

177. Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

178. ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says

179. OnePlus 15 finally gets FCC clearance after government shutdown delay—preorders live

180. In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

181. Welcome to “necroprinting”—3D printer nozzle made from mosquito’s proboscis

182. Trump wants tiny Japanese-style cars for US even as he cuts mpg goals

183. Lego announces NASA Artemis SLS rocket set to lift off (literally) in 2026

184. The NPU in your phone keeps improving—why isn’t that making AI better?

185. A fentanyl vaccine is about to get its first major test

186. 12 former FDA chiefs unite to say agency memo on vaccines is deeply stupid

187. Maximum-severity vulnerability threatens 6% of all websites

188. Great handling, advanced EV tech: We drive the 2027 BMW iX3

189. Republicans drop Trump-ordered block on state AI laws from defense bill

190. Humans in southern Africa were an isolated population until recently

191. After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers

192. NASA nominee appears before Congress, defends plans to revamp space agency

193. Sony drops new trailer for 28 Years Later: Bone Temple

194. Rare win for renewable energy: Trump admin funds geothermal network expansion

195. Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

196. Prime Video pulls eerily emotionless AI-generated anime dubs after complaints

197. FCC boss Brendan Carr claims another victory over DEI as AT&T drops programs

198. A little-known Chinese company nearly landed a rocket from space on its first try

199. Fraudulent gambling network may actually be something more nefarious

200. Samara Weaving levels up in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come trailer

201. Planned satellite constellations may swamp future orbiting telescopes

202. Guitar amp sims have gotten astonishingly good

203. More FDA drama: Top drug regulator calls it quits after 3 weeks

204. This Chinese company could become the country’s first to land a reusable rocket

205. OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months

206. Mad Men’s 4K debut botched by HBO Max streaming episode with visible crewmembers

207. India orders device makers to put government-run security app on all phones

208. Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

209. Google announces second Android 16 release of 2025 is heading to Pixels

210. Meet CDC’s new lead vaccine advisor who thinks shots cause heart disease

211. Samsung reveals Galaxy Z TriFold with 10-inch foldable screen, astronomical price

212. 3D model shows small clans created Easter Island statues

213. “Renewable” no more: Trump admin renames the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

214. NASA seeks a “warm backup” option as key decision on lunar rover nears

215. “Players are selfish”: Fallout 2’s Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy

216. Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

217. The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again

218. Supreme Court hears case that could trigger big crackdown on Internet piracy

219. OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets

220. In Myanmar, illicit rare-earth mining is taking a heavy toll

221. After a Witcher-free decade, CDPR still promises three sequels in six years

222. Even Microsoft’s retro holiday sweaters are having Copilot forced upon them

223. Space CEO explains why he believes private space stations are a viable business

224. Netflix quietly drops support for casting to most TVs

225. Here are the best Cyber Monday deals we can find

226. Research roundup: 6 cool stories we almost missed

227. After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

228. Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed

229. Achieving lasting remission for HIV

230. Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forget to secure a 20-ton service platform

231. Here are the best Black Friday deals we can find

232. Reintroduced carnivores’ impacts on ecosystems are still coming into focus

233. We put the new pocket-size vinyl format to the test—with mixed results

234. Blast from the past: 15 movie gems of 1985

235. Four-inch worm hatches in woman’s forehead, wriggles to her eyelid

236. ULA aimed to launch up to 10 Vulcan rockets this year—it will fly just once

237. Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use

238. RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines

239. OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

240. HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

241. Russia’s Soyuz 5 will soon come alive. But will anyone want to fly on it?

242. Vision Pro M5 review: It’s time for Apple to make some tough choices

243. Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble

244. Tech firm’s new CTO gets indicted; company then claims he was never CTO

245. Many genes associated with dog behavior influence human personalities, too

246. There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests

247. Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

248. GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere

249. China launches an emergency lifeboat to bring three astronauts back to Earth

250. RealPage agrees to change algorithm so landlords can’t collude on price hikes

251. Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one

252. Formation of oceans within icy moons could cause the waters to boil

253. Mushroom foragers collect 160 species for food, medicine, art, and science

254. Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model

255. Rivals object to SpaceX’s Starship plans in Florida—who’s interfering with whom?

256. DOGE “cut muscle, not fat”; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts

257. Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition

258. Why synthetic emerald-green pigments degrade over time

259. It’s official: Boeing’s next flight of Starliner will be allowed to carry cargo only

260. F1 in Las Vegas: This sport is a 200 mph soap opera

261. UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in 130M growth push

262. Rocket Lab chief opens up about Neutron delays, New Glenn’s success, and NASA science

263. “Go generate a bridge and jump off it”: How video pros are navigating AI

264. This hacker conference installed a literal antivirus monitoring system

265. Cryptography group cancels election results after official loses secret key

266. Why you don’t want to get tuberculosis on your penis

267. Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now

268. Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser

269. How to know if your Asus router is one of thousands hacked by China-state hackers

270. Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

271. AI trained on bacterial genomes produces never-before-seen proteins

272. Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China

273. Data-driven sport: How Red Bull and AT&T move terabytes of F1 info

274. Keep your receipts: Tech firms told to prepare for possible tariff refunds

275. Chris Hemsworth and dad fight Alzheimer’s with a trip down memory lane

276. First revealed in spy photos, a Bronze Age city emerges from the steppe

277. Rocket Report: SpaceX’s next-gen booster fails; Pegasus will fly again

278. Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification

279. Newest Starship booster is significantly damaged during testing early Friday

280. Stoke Space goes for broke to solve the only launch problem that “moves the needle”

281. HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

282. From defiant to contrite: Formula maker confirms bacteria amid botulism outbreak

283. Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License

284. Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables

285. The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop

286. Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws

287. Blue Origin revealed some massively cool plans for its New Glenn rocket

288. Google’s latest swing at Chromebook gaming is a free year of GeForce Now

289. Flying with whales: Drones are remaking marine mammal research

290. “Hey Google, did you upgrade your AI in my Android Auto?”

291. Google’s new Nano Banana Pro uses Gemini 3 power to generate more realistic AI images

292. RFK Jr.’s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism

293. Attack, defend, pursue—the Space Force’s new naming scheme foretells new era

294. In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon

295. Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults

296. “We’re in an LLM bubble,” Hugging Face CEO says—but not an AI one

297. NASA really wants you to know that 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet

298. Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

299. Rocket Lab Electron among first artifacts installed in CA Science Center space gallery

300. He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement