1. Scientists unlock secret to Venus flytrap’s hair-trigger response

2. Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay 24.5 million

3. Another setback for Firefly Aerospace’s beleaguered rocket program

4. Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks

5. Sports piracy site Streameast returns after US government let domain expire

6. EA will be a very different company under private ownership

7. F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project

8. ESA will pay an Italian company nearly 50 million to design a mini-Starship

9. Senators try to halt shuttle move, saying “little evidence” of public demand

10. Fortnite disables Peacemaker emote that might resemble a swastika

11. Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

12. It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in 55 billion deal

13. Big AI firms pump money into world models as LLM advances slow

14. ZR1, GTD, and America’s new Nurburgring war

15. 30 years later, I’m still obliterating planets in Master of Orion II—and you can, too

16. 150 million-year-old pterosaur cold case has finally been solved

17. The current war on science, and who’s behind it

18. Why LA Comic Con thought making an AI-powered Stan Lee hologram was a good idea

19. Can AI detect hedgehogs from space? Maybe if you find brambles first.

20. Woman hospitalized with pain and vomiting—diet soda cured her

21. LG’s 1,800 TV for seniors makes misguided assumptions

22. Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to 50 billion

23. YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes

24. Sinclair gets nothing it asked for, puts Jimmy Kimmel back on anyway

25. You should care more about the stabilizers in your mechanical keyboard—here’s why

26. Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and funding running dry

27. Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”

28. Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun

29. 50 scientific societies sign letter objecting to Trump executive order

30. Asus’ new ROG Xbox Ally X set to break the bank at 999.99

31. Rocket Report: Keeping up with Kuiper; New Glenn’s second flight slips

32. Raspberry Pi 500 puts the Pi, 16GB of RAM, and a real SSD in a mechanical keyboard

33. Fiji’s ants might be the canary in the coal mine for the insect apocalypse

34. Senate staff probes DOGE, finds locked doors and windows covered with trash bags

35. Sierra’s Dream Chaser is starting to resemble a nightmare

36. Felony charges after South Carolina high school filled with “fart spray”… for weeks

37. Amazon Fire TV devices expected to ditch Android for Linux in 2025

38. High above the equator, Russia is stalking satellites used by NATO armed forces

39. ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history

40. Study: Planned budget cuts would hurt drug development badly

41. Experts urge caution about using ChatGPT to pick stocks

42. Amazon blamed AI for layoffs, then hired cheap H1-B workers, senators allege

43. Apple iPhone 17 review: Sometimes boring is best

44. Amazon agrees to make canceling Prime easy, will refund customers 1.5B

45. Google DeepMind unveils its first “thinking” robotics AI

46. Reviewing iOS 26 for power users: Reminders, Preview, and more

47. Apple demands EU repeal the Digital Markets Act

48. Astra’s Chris Kemp woke up one recent morning and chose violence

49. As many as 2 million Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day

50. Ford decides to run its Le Mans program in-house, racing in 2027

51. DeepMind’s robotic ballet: An AI for coordinating manufacturing robots

52. The crew of Artemis II will fly on Integrity during mission to the Moon

53. Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December

54. “Screwworm is dangerously close”: Flesh-eating parasites just 70 miles from US

55. Newly found ancient Egyptian port may lead to Cleopatra’s tomb

56. Jimmy Kimmel returns, calls FCC chairman an embarrassment to Republicans

57. A “cosmic carpool” is traveling to a distant space weather observation post

58. Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games

59. Anti-vaccine allies cheer as Trump claims shots have “too much liquid”

60. Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers?

61. Taiwan starts weaponizing chip access after US urged it to, expert says

62. The DHS has been quietly harvesting DNA from Americans for years

63. Ford F-150 Lightnings are powering the grid in first residential V2G pilot

64. Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

65. Pennywise gets an origin story in Welcome to Derry trailer

66. When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette

67. Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney price hikes

68. YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation

69. FCC chairman unconvincingly claims he never threatened ABC station licenses

70. Review: Apple’s iPhone Air is a bunch of small changes that add up to something big

71. Scientists catch a shark threesome on camera

72. Baby Steps is the most gloriously frustrating game I’ve ever struggled through

73. US uncovers 100,000 SIM cards that could have “shut down” NYC cell network

74. NASA targeting early February for Artemis II mission to the Moon

75. Judge lets construction on an offshore wind farm resume

76. Broadcom’s prohibitive VMware prices create a learning “barrier,” IT pro says

77. Supreme Court lets Trump fire FTC Democrat despite 90-year-old precedent

78. Google Play is getting a Gemini-powered AI Sidekick to help you in games

79. EU investigates Apple, Google, and Microsoft over handling of online scams

80. Volvo says it has big plans for South Carolina factory

81. US intel officials “concerned” China will soon master reusable launch

82. How to fight censorship, one Disney cancellation at a time

83. NASA names 24th astronaut class, including prior SpaceX crew member

84. iFixit tears down the iPhone Air, finds that it’s mostly battery

85. Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC

86. Google back in court as it tries to avoid advertising business breakup

87. Rand Paul: FCC chair had “no business” intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy

88. OpenAI and Nvidia’s 100B AI plan will require power equal to 10 nuclear reactors

89. Anti-vaccine groups melt down over reports RFK Jr. to link autism to Tylenol

90. DeepMind AI safety report explores the perils of “misaligned” AI

91. Here’s how potent Atomic credential stealer is finding its way onto Macs

92. Three crashes in the first day? Tesla’s robotaxi test in Austin.

93. Our fave Star Wars duo is back in Mandalorian and Grogu teaser

94. F1 in Azerbaijan: This sport is my red flag

95. What climate targets? Top fossil fuel producing nations keep boosting output

96. A history of the Internet, part 3: The rise of the user

97. Microsoft’s Entra ID vulnerabilities could have been catastrophic

98. You’ll enjoy the Specialized Turbo Vado SL 2 6.0 Carbon even without assist

99. Starship will soon fly over towns and cities, but will dodge the biggest ones

100. In a win for science, NASA told to use House budget as shutdown looms

101. After a very slow start, Europe’s reusable rocket program shows signs of life

102. Bonkers CDC vaccine meeting ends with vote to keep COVID shot access

103. Oklahoma’s big “TV nudes” scandal was… a Jackie Chan movie on a Samsung streaming service

104. Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the second time this year

105. Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day

106. Two of the Kremlin’s most active hack groups are collaborating, ESET says

107. Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report

108. After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The View

109. Steam will drop support for the last 32-bit Windows systems in January 2026

110. Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

111. Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home

112. “Yikes”: Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices

113. If you own a Volvo EX90, you’re getting a free computer upgrade

114. RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine panel realizes it has no idea what it’s doing, skips vote

115. AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities

116. Rocket Report: European rocket reuse test delayed; NASA tweaks SLS for Artemis II

117. Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks

118. In new level of stupid, RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisors axe MMRV recommendation

119. Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners

120. “Get off the iPad!” warns air traffic control as Spirit flight nears Air Force One

121. Google announces massive expansion of AI features in Chrome

122. Northrop Grumman successfully resupplies ISS after overcoming software glitch

123. Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges

124. FCC derided as “Federal Censorship Commission” after pushing Jimmy Kimmel off ABC

125. Nvidia will invest 5 billion in Intel, co-develop new server and PC chips

126. New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes

127. Trump’s Golden Dome will cost 10 to 100 times more than the Manhattan Project

128. Some dogs can classify their toys by function

129. Meta’s 799 Ray-Ban Display is the company’s first big step from VR to AR

130. How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension

131. Right-wing political violence is more frequent, deadly than left-wing violence

132. No Nissan Ariya for model-year 2026 as automaker cancels imports

133. You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish

134. White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits

135. RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine delusions—not science—steer CDC now, ex-director testifies

136. Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently

137. Trump admin says Social Security database wasn’t “leaked, hacked, or shared”

138. Gemini AI solves coding problem that stumped 139 human teams at ICPC World Finals

139. After child’s trauma, chatbot maker allegedly forced mom to arbitration for 100 payout

140. Trailer for Anaconda meta-reboot leans into the laughs

141. Tesla Model Y door handles now under federal safety scrutiny

142. Report: Apple inches closer to releasing an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro

143. China blocks sale of Nvidia AI chips

144. New Amelia Earhart bio delves into her unconventional marriage

145. iOS 26 review: A practical, yet playful, update

146. A record supply load won’t reach the International Space Station as scheduled

147. “China keeps the algorithm”: Critics attack Trump’s TikTok deal

148. Repeat creepy meat problems at Boar’s Head plants draw congressional scrutiny

149. An antidote to fat, heavy cars? Check out these lightweighting awards.

150. Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”

151. ChatGPT may soon require ID verification from adults, CEO says

152. Verizon to offer 20 broadband in California to obtain merger approval

153. Google’s experimental Windows app is better than Microsoft’s built-in search

154. A new report finds China’s space program will soon equal that of the US

155. How Nissan leveraged its driver assist to cut traffic jams

156. When will Jaguar Land Rover restart production? “No one actually knows.”

157. Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession

158. Northrop Grumman’s new spacecraft is a real chonker

159. Meet the latest anti-vaccine voices on RFK Jr.’s CDC advisory panel

160. Google releases VaultGemma, its first privacy-preserving LLM

161. Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

162. What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

163. Ars Live: CTA policy expert explains why tariff stacking is a nightmare

164. Boeing faces 3.1M fine for door plug blowout, hundreds of safety violations

165. macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review

166. Get into the cockpit as new crop of “Top Gun” pilots get their wings

167. Will TikTok go dark Wednesday? Trump claims deal with China avoids shutdown.

168. Parts shortage is the latest problem to hit General Motors production

169. NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

170. China rules that Nvidia violated its antitrust laws

171. The US is trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance”

172. 60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details

173. Scientists: It’s do or die time for America’s primacy exploring the Solar System

174. RFK Jr.‘s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids

175. Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack

176. Feds try to dodge lawsuit against their bogus climate report

177. After Kirk shooting, Utah governor calls social media a “cancer.” Will we treat it like one?

178. Electric vehicle sales grew 25% worldwide but just 6% in North America

179. California bill lets renters escape exclusive deals between ISPs and landlords

180. Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

181. Over three decades later, Nintendo remembers the Virtual Boy exists

182. New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

183. Small, affordable, efficient: A lot to like about the 2026 Nissan Leaf

184. Ex-DVD company employee gets 4 years for leaking Spider-Man Blu-ray

185. Microsoft dodges EU fine by unbundling Teams from Office

186. Rocket Report: Russia’s rocket engine predicament; 300th launch to the ISS

187. Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

188. OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

189. Child dies of horrifying measles complication in Los Angeles

190. NASA found intriguing rocks on Mars, so where does that leave Mars Sample Return?

191. Latest TRON: Ares trailer takes us back to 1982

192. New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

193. Ted Cruz AI bill could let firms bribe Trump to avoid safety laws, critics warn

194. 35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028

195. Is Hollow Knight: Silksong too hard? Well, it depends on what you mean by “hard.”

196. Gmail gets a dedicated place to track all your purchases

197. The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware

198. Pentagon begins deploying new satellite network to link sensors with shooters

199. Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal

200. After Ukrainian testing, drone detection radar doubles range with simple software patch

201. HBO Max is “way underpriced,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO says

202. Ousted CDC director to testify before Senate after RFK Jr. called her a liar

203. Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”

204. One of Google’s new Pixel 10 AI features has already been removed

205. Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

206. Can we please keep our broadband money, Republican governor asks Trump admin

207. Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools

208. Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

209. Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem

210. Has Perseverance found a biosignature on Mars?

211. AI vs. MAGA: Populists alarmed by Trump’s embrace of AI, Big Tech

212. Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

213. New iPhones use Apple N1 wireless chip—and we’ll probably start seeing it everywhere

214. Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for “straight” women

215. Hands-on with Apple’s new iPhones: Beauty and the beast and the regular-looking one

216. Pfizer says this season’s COVID shot boosts immune responses fourfold

217. Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in

218. After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch

219. As hackers exploit one high-severity SAP flaw, company warns of 3 more

220. SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

221. iPhone 17 Air is real—here’s what’s new in Apple’s extra-thin handset

222. iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and Apple’s other OS updates launch September 15

223. Apple “started from scratch” to design all-new iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max

224. Apple adds hypertension and sleep-quality monitoring to Watch Ultra 3, Series 11

225. Apple announces 799 iPhone 17 with bigger 6.3-inch always-on ProMotion screen, A19 chip

226. New AirPods Pro 3 turn Apple’s earbuds into fitness tracker, universal translator

227. “You are evil”: GirlsDoPorn ringleader Michael Pratt sentenced to 27 years

228. Judge: Anthropic’s 1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

229. Accessory maker will pay Nintendo after showing illicit Switch 2 mockups at CES

230. Switch modder owes Nintendo 2 million after representing himself in court

231. Geoengineering will not save humankind from climate change

232. Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough

233. Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack

234. Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”

235. In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”

236. Nobel laureate David Baltimore dead at 87

237. On a day of rebranding at the Pentagon, this name change slipped under the radar

238. EchoStar to sell spectrum to SpaceX after FCC threatened to revoke licenses

239. The Polestar 5 electric sedan makes its world debut

240. Benoit Blanc goes full Gothic in Wake Up Dead Man trailer

241. AI will consume all of IT by 2030—but not all IT jobs, Gartner says

242. Trump’s attempt to fire FTC Democrat gets a boost from Supreme Court

243. F1 in Italy: Look what happens when the downforce comes off

244. All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

245. Congress and Trump may compromise on the SLS rocket by axing its costly upper stage

246. Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age

247. Porsche’s insanely clever hybrid engine comes to the 911 Turbo S

248. GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites

249. Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

250. “First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors 1.5 billion

251. What to expect (and not expect) from yet another September Apple event

252. Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs

253. Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine for adtech monopoly

254. Lenovo demos laptop with a screen you can swivel into portrait mode

255. Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo

256. NASA’s acting chief “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon

257. ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people

258. Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port

259. OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips

260. Rocket Report: Neutron’s pad opens for business; SpaceX gets Falcon 9 green light

261. BMW debuts 6th-generation EV powertrain in the all-electric iX3

262. RFK Jr. says COVID shots still available to all as cancer patients denied access

263. The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.

264. Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn

265. COVID vaccine locations vanish from Google Maps due to supposed “technical issue”

266. Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year

267. Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

268. Harvard beats Trump as judge orders US to restore 2.6 billion in funding

269. Honda combines Type-R handling with hybrid efficiency for 2026 Prelude

270. Philips introduces budget-friendly Hue bulbs as part of major lineup overhaul

271. Lull in Falcon Heavy missions opens window for SpaceX to build new landing pads

272. Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

273. New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats

274. Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants

275. Former NASA chief says United States likely to lose second lunar space race

276. FCC chair teams up with Ted Cruz to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolkids

277. Google’s Material 3 Expressive UI rolls out to Pixel 6 and newer

278. These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

279. Are you ready for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple trailer?

280. Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

281. In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements

282. Court reinstates fired FTC Democrat, says Trump ignored Supreme Court precedent

283. Audi design finds its minimalist groove again with Concept C

284. reMarkable’s newest E-Inkwriting tablet is a 7.3-inch, 449 handheld slab

285. Beyond technology? How Bentley is reacting to the 21st century.

286. “Mockery of science”: Climate scientists tear into new US climate report

287. Trump’s move of SPACECOM to Alabama has little to do with national security

288. The new Dolby Vision 2 HDR standard is probably going to be controversial

289. OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial

290. Google won’t have to sell Chrome, judge rules

291. A robot walks on water thanks to evolution’s solution

292. Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

293. Revolving door: Ex-senator becomes cable industry’s top lobbyist

294. This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC

295. Google says Gmail security is “strong and effective” as it denies major breach

296. Fuel supply is a bottleneck for Starship—here’s how SpaceX will get around it

297. The Avengers face an undead Thanos in Marvel Zombies trailer

298. Ted Cruz reminds us why NASA’s rocket is called the “Senate Launch System”

299. Noctua’s 3D-printed mod singlehandedly makes the Framework Desktop run quieter

300. Chinese EV buyers are cooling on Tesla and BYD