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2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
Quick, comfortable, roomy, and agile for a large electric SUV.
Jim Resnick
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Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
Undark Magazine
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Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
Jeremy Hsu
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The Pentagon’s Space Development Agency hasn’t moved as fast as anyone would like
“Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury.”
Stephen Clark
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Hegseth wants a “High-T” military; doctors call it a clinical minefield
“We’re turning the clock back on rational healthcare.”
Beth Mole
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Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
Undark Magazine
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Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
Jeremy Hsu
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The Pentagon’s Space Development Agency hasn’t moved as fast as anyone would like
“Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury.”
Stephen Clark
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Hegseth wants a “High-T” military; doctors call it a clinical minefield
“We’re turning the clock back on rational healthcare.”
Beth Mole
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Taco Bell iceberg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states
Don’t eat Taco Bell lettuce in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, or West Virginia.
Beth Mole
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Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
American Diabetes Association blocked publication of op-ed articles so the authors posted them as a preprint.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Will Russia’s answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028.
Eric Berger
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Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
Fubo subscribers still don’t have Versant channels.
Scharon Harding
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San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
Ashley Belanger
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Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
Desktops, laptops, phones, CPUs, GPUs, NAS—if you know this stuff, come work for us!
Lee Hutchinson
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Demystifying orbital data centers
How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
“The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We’re focused on making them cheap and light.”
Eric Berger
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The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.
John Timmer
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FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.
Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica
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Rocket Report: India’s Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?
“We have done everything that could be done to test Vikram-1 on ground.”
Eric Berger
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SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn’t start
“Now offloading propellant. Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days.”
Stephen Clark
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Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing
Both nominees flailed in their own unique ways as senators sought answers.
Beth Mole
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HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
Scharon Harding
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T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users’ free lines
T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.
Jon Brodkin
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It’s official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
Ryan Whitwam
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xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
Elon Musk’s xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
Ashley Belanger
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Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.
Jeremy Hsu
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Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say
If only someone could have predicted it.
Nate Anderson
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2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric
Toyota’s everyday small SUV should rarely require trips to the gas station.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Now, even Russia’s most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.
Dan Goodin
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Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: “Fork it. Or just walk away.”
Creator says he will “very loudly ignore” those arguing for a ban on AI tools.
Kyle Orland
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We’ve seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere
If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind.
John Timmer
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OnePlus confirms shutdown in the US and Europe, ending months of speculation
OnePlus promises to continue supporting the phones it has already released.
Ryan Whitwam
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Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.
“We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like constellation.”
Stephen Clark
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Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom
Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.
Financial Times
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Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds
NTSB findings back Elon Musk’s claim that driver manually overrode FSD.
Ashley Belanger
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Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback
Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as a GPS alternative.
Jeremy Hsu
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Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there
Union wants to halt a “perpetual cycle” of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.
Kyle Orland
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Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon
While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.
Robert Pearlman
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Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Scharon Harding
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Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.
Ashley Belanger
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