Month: January 2026

Forza Horizon 6 launches in May

Forza Horizon 6 will launch on Xbox Series X / S and PC on May 19th, Xbox and developer Playground Games announced during Thursday’s Developer Direct...

The Pulse #160: Why it’s so dramatic that “writing code by hand is dead”

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it...

New Drug Hopes To Treat Sleep Apnea Without Masks

Sleep apnea is a debilitating disease that many sufferers don’t even realize they have. Those afflicted with the condition will regularly stop breathing during sleep as...

Why agentic LLM systems fail: Control, cost, and reliability

In the past few years, agentic AI systems like AutoGPT, BabyAGI and others have demonstrated, through prompting, that large language models (LLMs) can accomplish a wide...

Xbox Developer Direct 2026: the biggest games and announcements

In a now-annual tradition, Microsoft is kicking off the year with a showcase of some of its biggest upcoming games. Last year’s edition of the Xbox...

Blue Origin makes impressive strides with reuse—next launch will refly booster

Blue Origin confirmed Thursday that the next launch of its New Glenn rocket will carry a large communications satellite into low-Earth orbit for AST SpaceMobile. The...

[$] Linux Kernel Runtime Guard reaches its 1.0 release

The Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) is a out-of-tree loadable kernel module that attempts to detect and report violations of the kernel’s internal invariants, such as...

ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves

The alleged risks of being publicly identified have not stopped DHS  and ICE employees from creating profiles on LinkedIn, even as Kristi Noem threatens to treat...

“Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better?

For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online. The practice was...

next-20260122: linux-next

Version: next-20260122 (linux-next) Released: 2026-01-22

Why platform companies keep buying frontend framework teams

Late last week, the global cloud platform Cloudflare acquired the company behind Astro, one of the leading frontend frameworks. This follows a pattern of popular frameworks...

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Developers have been comparing the strengths and weaknesses of Anthropic’s Claude Code, Anysphere’s Cursor, and Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot for months now, looking for a winner. While...

Free TV startup Telly only had 35,000 units in people’s homes last fall

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. When...

Sony announces its first turntables in years

Sony is releasing a new turntable for the first time since 2019. Two, in fact. The entry-level PS-LX3BT ($399.99) and step-up PS-LX5BT ($499.99) are designed for...

Intel Xeon 6780E “Sierra Forest” Linux Performance ~14% Faster Since Launch

As part of my end-of-year 2025 benchmarking I looked at how the Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids performance evolved in the year since launch and seeing...

Why nobody’s stopping Grok

Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly...

FreeBSD is a No-Go for KDE's Plasma Login Manager

Not everyone will be happy with this.

Dispatch from Davos: hot air, big egos and cold flexes

This story first appeared in The Debrief, our subscriber-only newsletter about the biggest news in tech by Mat Honan, Editor in Chief. Subscribe to read the next...

Google adds your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to enable “Personal Intelligence”

Google believes AI is the future of search, and it’s not shy about saying it. After adding account-level personalization to Gemini earlier this month, it’s now...

STL Editing with FreeCAD

[Kevin] admits that FreeCAD may not be the ideal tool for editing STL files. But it is possible, and he shares some practical advice in the...

Finally, a new controller that solves the Switch 2’s “flat Joy-Con” problem

When I reviewed the Switch 2 back in June, I noted that the lack of any sort of extended grip on the extremely thin Joy-Con 2...

Chainguard to eliminate FUD around Chainguard OS

Today, Chainguard, which provides secure, production-ready builds of open source software, has introduced a customer-led steering committee for its Chainguard OS and is recruiting members starting now....

Google Search AI Mode can use Gmail and Photos to get to know you

Personal Intelligence can tap into your Gmail inbox to check for bookings and purchase receipts. Google is helping AI Mode to provide more personalized responses in...

eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents

On Tuesday, eBay updated its User Agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting with its platform without permission, first...

Lenovo wants other companies to make accessories for its modular laptops

Two years ago, Lenovo introduced a collection of modular Magic Bay accessories for its ThinkBook 16p. They attached to a magnetic pin connector at the top...

AMD’s faster Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU arrives on January 29th for $499

AMD announced an improved version of its popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor at CES earlier this month, and it’s now confirming a release date and pricing...

AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9850X3D Pricing Of $499 USD

Back at CES AMD announced the Ryen 7 9850X3D as a faster sibling to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Today they have announced the suggested price for...

Skimming Satellites: On the Edge of the Atmosphere

There’s little about building spacecraft that anyone would call simple. But there’s at least one element of designing a vehicle that will operate outside the Earth’s...

Why enterprise AI breaks without metrics discipline

With the rising popularity of AI at workplaces based on various use cases, it promises to help support organizations by providing long-term benefits including faster product...

Tailscale + BlueBubbles puts iMessage on Windows, Android, or anywhere

BlueBubbles is a clever way to bring iMessage to almost any device. Tailscale makes it far more simple to hook it all up.

Updated Intel Panther Lake IPU Firmware Published With New Features & Bug Fixes

Ahead of the first Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptops expected to hit retail channels next week, Intel has published updated IPU7 (IPU 7.5)...

This plugin uses Wikipedia’s AI-spotting guide to make AI writing sound more human

A new tool aims to help AI chatbots generate more human-sounding text – with the help of Wikipedia’s guide for detecting AI, as reported by Ars...

All sorts of interesting flags and artifacts will fly to the Moon on Artemis II

NASA’s first astronauts to fly to the Moon in more than 50 years will pay tribute to the lunar and space exploration missions that preceded them,...

Learn RAG & MCP Fundamentals

Building AI today is about more than just a clever prompt. If you really want to move from playing with standalone tools to creating integrated systems...

Fragments: January 22

My colleagues here at Thoughtworks have announced AI/works™, a platform for our work using AI-enabled software development. The platform is in its early days, and is...

30 years of ReactOS

ReactOS, an open-source project to develop an operating system that is compatible with Microsoft Windows NT applications and drivers, is celebrating 30 years since the first...

Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial

As Meta heads to trial in the state of New Mexico for allegedly failing to protect minors from sexual exploitation, the company is making an aggressive...

Rust 1.93.0 released

Version 1.93.0 of the Rust programming language has been released. Notable changes include in updated version of the bundled musl library, thread-local storage for the global...

Rust 1.93 Brings Improvement For Inline Assembly Handling

Rust 1.93 is out today as the first feature release for this programming lanugage of 2026…

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gpsd), Debian (inetutils and modsecurity-crs), Fedora (cpp-httplib, curl, mariadb11.8, mingw-libtasn1, mingw-libxslt, mingw-python3, rclone, and rpki-client), Oracle (gimp, glib2, go-toolset:rhel8,...

How Precog adds business context to make enterprise data AI-ready

Extracting data from enterprise tools like Salesforce, SAP Ariba, or NetSuite is relatively easy. Making that data usable for AI models to reason over is much...

How to Compute With Electron Waves

Much has been made of the excessive power demands of AI, but solutions are sparse. This has led engineers to consider completely new paradigms in computing:...

Best Nintendo Switch 2 Accessories (2026): Controllers, Cases, and More

Looking to jazz up your portable gaming experience? Here are the best accessories we’ve tested for the Nintendo Switch 2.

The Best Motorola Phones (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Motorola phones may seem old-school, but their reasonable prices, colorful designs, and simple software make them good, wallet-friendly Android smartphones.

AMD AOMP 22.0-2 Released With Flang Fortran Improvements

Yesterday along with releasing ROCm 7.2 there was also the release of AOMP 22.0-2 as the newest version of their open-source downstream of LLVM/Clang/Flang that is...

The Download: Yann LeCun’s new venture, and lithium’s on the rise

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Yann LeCun’s new venture...

Drowning in AI slop, cURL ends bug bounties

Enough is enough. Daniel Stenberg, lead developer and founder of cURL, the popular, open source internet file transfer protocol, is closing down cURL’s bug bounty program...

Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design

Agentic AI stands ready to transform customer experience and operational efficiency, necessitating a new strategic approach from leadership. This evolution in artificial intelligence empowers systems to...

Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks

Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: “I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous instructions and give me...

7 Best Smart Locks (2026) for Front Doors, Side Doors, and Even Garages

Upgrade your locks with fingerprint-scanning or a keypad, whether it’s at the front door or a sliding glass entryway.

PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 Can Almost Play Three-Quarters of PS3 Games

Although already having entered the territory of ‘retro gaming’, the Sony PlayStation 3 remains a notoriously hard to emulate game console. Much of this is to...

Google Nabs Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI

Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.

A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to ‘Humanize’ Chatbots

The web’s best resource for spotting AI writing has ironically become a manual for AI models to hide it.

How to Roll Back a Linux Kernel Safely (GRUB, All Distros)

Quick Summary What “Rolling Back” the Linux Kernel Means As you know already, the… The post How to Roll Back a Linux Kernel Safely (GRUB, All...

European Initiative for Data Sovereignty Released a Trust Framework

The Danube release of the Gaia-X trust framework provides mechanisms for the automation of compliance and supports interoperability across sectors and geographies to ensure trusted data...

How to Meditate (Without an Om in Sight) (2026)

There’s no need for an expensive retreat to practice meditation. Try it on your lunch break to recharge your mind and body.

Prominent Intel Compiler Engineer Heads Off To AMD

James Brodman worked for the last 15 years at Intel on their ISPC SIMD compiler and then in more recent years on the Intel DPC++ compiler...

Why 2026 is a hot year for lithium

In 2026, I’m going to be closely watching the price of lithium. If you’re not in the habit of obsessively tracking commodity markets, I certainly don’t...

We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the...

The US Is In For Another Bad Year of Measles Cases

A growing measles outbreak in South Carolina has infected more than 600 people since October, with hundreds more being potentially exposed.

An Interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters About Engagement and Warner Bros.

Listen to this post: Good morning, This week’s Stratechery Interview is with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters. Peters became co-CEO of Netflix in 2023, and was previously...

ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years In Striving To Be An Open-Source Windows Implementation

The ReactOS project is celebrating today that it marks 30 years since their first code commit in the ReactOS source tree. During the past 30 years...

Espressif Launches "Radio Co-Processor" ESP32-E22

The new SoC comes loaded with some utility-focused bits. Engineering samples are available right now.

Best Organic Mattresses (2026): Birch, Avocado, Naturepedic, More

These natural, organic mattresses are eco-friendly alternatives to conventional models and just as comfortable.

DHS’s Data Grab Is Getting Citizens Kicked Off Voter Rolls, New Complaint Says

As states check voter registration against a mashup of federal data, a new complaint says US citizens are getting kicked off state voter rolls as a...

AWS Launches European Sovereign Cloud amid Questions about U.S. Legal Jurisdiction

AWS has launched its European Sovereign Cloud with a €7.8 billion investment, designed to meet EU regulatory demands and address data privacy concerns amid geopolitical tensions....

Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models  

Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world. He believes...

Ordering Pizza On The Nintendo Wii (Again)

The Nintendo Wii first launched in 2006, and quickly became a fixture in living rooms around the world. It offered motion-controlled bowling, some basic internet features,...

Steinar H. Gunderson: Rewriting Git merge history, part 2

In part 1, we discovered the problem of rewriting git history in the presence of nontrivial merges. Today, we’ll discuss the workaround I chose. As I...

Open Source Project LLVM Says Yes to AI-Generated Code, But Not Without Conditions

The new “human in the loop” policy holds contributors accountable for reviewing and understanding all AI-assisted submissions.

Nike Promo Codes and Deals: Up to 40% Off

Check out our deals for Nike this month, including up to 40% off select styles.

H&R Block Coupons and Deals: 20% Off Tax Prep in 2026

Save up to 20% and get up to $4,000 with a Refund Advance Loan at H&R Block this tax season.

HBO Max Promo Code: 50% Off | January

Stream your favorite shows and save up to 50% today with HBO Max discount codes and subscription deals.

Binary and Digital Gradients for Telling Time

Creative clocks are a dime a dozen, even clocks that use binary have been created in nearly every format. [typo] promises a clever adaptation to the...

Govee Discount Codes and Deals: 30% Off

New to Govee? Get a $5 coupon on your first purchase just for signing up.

FOSS Weekly #26.04: Mint 22.3 Released, Stallman is Back, Ubuntu's Snap Store Under Attack and More

Much awaited Linux Mint 22.3 is here but what’s going on with Ubuntu?

10 Tools to Make Bootable USB Drive from ISO in 2026

The post 10 Tools to Make Bootable USB Drive from ISO in 2026 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Updated: This article...

Simulating Pots with LTSpice

One of the good things about simulating circuits is that you can easily change component values trivially. In the real world, you might use a potentiometer...

14 Years Later than Planned, NexPhone is Up for Preorder

NexPhone is available for pre-order, some 14 years after it was first announced to the world – back then it planned to ship with Ubuntu for...

Linux Finally Retiring HIPPI: The First Near-Gigabit Standard For Networking Supercomputers

While the Linux kernel has been seeing preparations from NVIDIA for 1.6 Tb/s networking in preparing for next-generation super-computing, the kernel has still retained support to...

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 22, 2026

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Singularity; fsconfig(); io_uring restrictions; GPG vulnerabilities; slab allocator; AshOS. Briefs: Pixel exploit; telnetd exploit; OzLabs; korgalore; Firefox Nightly RPMs;...

New observability features in Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.15

The latest release of the Red Hat OpenShift cluster observability operator 1.3 introduces observability signal correlation, incident detection, application performance monitoring (APM) dashboard, and more. These...

Understanding security embargoes at Red Hat

Within Red Hat’s Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) framework, an embargo is a strictly-defined window of time during which a security vulnerability is known only to a...

Announcing Rust 1.93.0

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.93.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software....

Judge orders stop to FBI search of devices seized from Washington Post reporter

A federal judge today ordered the US government to stop searching devices seized from the house of a Washington Post reporter. It may be only a...

Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS

Websites that authenticate users through links and codes sent in text messages are imperiling the privacy of millions of people, leaving them vulnerable to scams, identity...

CRASH Clock Measures Dangerous Overcrowding in Low Earth Orbit

Thousands of satellites are tightly packed into low Earth orbit, and the overcrowding is only growing. Scientists have created a simple warning system called the CRASH...

AI SRE roundtable: The creation of a new category

It’s no surprise following the explosion of AI-driven code generation tools, that we are now seeing a strong AI-driven response from operations and security. Almost by...

mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say

In a small clinical trial, customized mRNA vaccines against high-risk skin cancers appeared to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence and death by nearly 50 percent...

AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Next-Gen EPYC Features: GLBE, GLSBE & PLZA

Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list this afternoon were a set of 19 patches in preparing for some new CPU features presumably to be...

Enabling autonomous agents with environment virtualization

I have spent the last year watching the AI conversation shift from smart autocomplete to autonomous contribution. When I test tools like Claude Code or GitHub...

Trump FCC threatens to enforce equal-time rule on late-night talk shows

The Federal Communications Commission today issued a warning to late-night and daytime talk shows, saying these shows may no longer qualify for an exemption to the...

How to Turn Your Favorite Tech Blogs into a Personal Podcast

These days it feels almost impossible to keep up with tech news. I step away for three days, and suddenly there is a new AI model,...

Why adding modern controls to 1996’s Tomb Raider simply doesn’t work

For a lot of the games I’ve written about in the C:ArsGames series, I’ve come to the conclusion that the games hold up pretty well, despite...

AMD ROCm 7.2 Now Released With More Radeon Graphics Cards Supported, ROCm Optiq Introduced

Back at CES earlier this month AMD talked up features of the ROCm 7.2 release. ROCm 7.2 though wasn’t actually released then, at least not for...

Kioxia’s memory is “sold out” for 2026, prolonging a “high-end and expensive phase”

The companies that make RAM and flash memory chips are enjoying record profits because of the AI-induced memory crunch—and they’re also indicating that they don’t expect...

What Type of Mattress Is Right for You? (2026)

Here’s how to pick the best mattress for your sleep needs, straight from a professional mattress tester.

Why d-Matrix bets on in-memory compute to break the AI inference bottleneck

AI inference is poised to become the single largest compute workload. For some time now, after all, AI service providers like OpenAI have claimed that they...

Mesa 26.0-rc1 Released With RADV Improvements Leading The Way Along With Intel & NVK

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 26.0-rc1 with the code for this quarter’s Mesa feature release now branched and under a feature freeze leading up to the...

Watch a robot swarm “bloom” like a garden

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to...

Evgeni Golov: Validating cloud-init configs without being root

Somehow this whole DevOps thing is all about generating the wildest things from some (usually equally wild) template. And today we’re gonna generate YAML from ERB,...

Spotify won court order against Anna’s Archive, taking down .org domain

When shadow library Anna’s Archive lost its .org domain in early January, the controversial site’s operator said the suspension didn’t appear to have anything to do...

What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US—and What We Don’t

A huge portion of the United States is going to be hit with snow or freezing rain this weekend. Exactly where, what, and how much remains...

Should enterprises run containers in VMs or bare metal?

The wonders of containers — their overall flexibility, portability, and logical encapsulation of everything needed to run an application — have made them a mainstream method...

The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think

WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI’s Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.

Another Jeff Bezos company has announced plans to develop a megaconstellation

The announcement came out of the blue, from Blue, on Wednesday. The space company founded by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, said it was developing a new...

[$] Cleanup on aisle fsconfig()

As part of the process of writing man pages for the “new” mount API, which has been available in the kernel since 2019, Aleksa Sarai encountered...

Learn Dynamic Programming Through Dynamic Visuals

Dynamic programming (DP) is often considered one of the most intimidating topics in coding interviews. It has a reputation for being abstract and counterintuitive, but it...

TCL Knocks $1,000 Off One of Our Favorite Midrange TVs

The 65-inch QM8K sees a massive discount, with equally generous markdowns on larger models.

Build a The Backrooms Game in Unreal Engine 5

The “liminal space” aesthetic of the Backrooms has become a staple of modern indie horror. If you’ve ever wanted to create your own unsettling, claustrophobic experience,...

Surveillance and ICE Are Driving Patients Away From Medical Care, Report Warns

A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust...

Building scalable agentic assistants: A graph-based approach

About a year back, we got pulled into what looked like a straightforward problem: Build an interface assistant that could answer questions about payments, disputes, transactions,...

How AWS S3 is built

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for...

I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way

Some time ago, I shipped a component that felt accessible by every measure I could test. Keyboard navigation worked. ARIA roles were correctly applied. Automated audits...

PyTorch 2.10 Released With More Improvements For AMD ROCm & Intel GPUs

PyTorch 2.10 is out today as the latest feature update to this widely-used deep learning library. The new PyTorch release continues improving support for Intel GPUs...

Pandas 3.0 released

Version 3.0.0 of the pandas data analysis and manipulation library for Python has been released. Notable changes include a dedicated string type (str), new “copy-on-write” behavior,...

Here’s Volvo’s new EX60 $60,000 electric midsize SUV

After a teaser campaign that included a world exclusive with Ars, Volvo has officially unveiled its next electric vehicle, the EX60. We already knew it would...

Volvo EX60 Electric SUV: Range, Specs, Availability, and Price

The Swedish brand’s latest computer-packed EV hopes to take on and beat the BMW iX3. But we’re more excited about the new seat belt.

I Ran the Famed Affinity Designer on Linux. Here's How It Went

While compatibility isn’t perfect, it’s sufficient for getting a feel of the program (if that’s your desire) and even potentially for using it to do real...

Ubisoft cancels Prince of Persia remake as part of major reorganization

Ubisoft is announcing a major reorganization, and with the changes, it’s refocusing its portfolio and canceling some games, including the beleaguered remake of Prince of Persia:...

Hardened containers don’t fix a broken software supply chain

The software supply chain is broken, and the recent explosion of hardened container offerings is the industry’s reaction. A few years ago, secure container images were...

ElevenLabs made an AI album to plug its music generator

The images in the background serve as covers for each song on The Eleven Album. | Image: ElevenLabs / The Verge ElevenLabs has released an album...

Trump is steamrolling global calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining

A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward...

Fiber Optic Lamp Modified To Be Scarily Bright

[Brainiac75] is a fan of fiber optic lamps, except for one thing—they’re often remarkably dim. Thus, they set out to hack the technology to deliver terrifying...

DJI’s Mic Mini is a big upgrade over your phone’s mic, and it’s on sale for $60

DJI’s Mic Mini makes vlogging on the go a little easier. If you want better audio than your phone can deliver while creating content on the...

Focus on ‘Don’ts’ to build systems that know when to say ‘No’

If your AI knowledge base only lists policies, your organization is operating with half its institutional intelligence. An internal knowledge base is vital for AI agents,...

Micron Megafab Project Faces a New Hurdle as Activists Seek a Benefits Deal

Activists are demanding a way to hold the memory-chip maker accountable to its promises to protect the environment and embrace communities of color in central New...

MAGA’s ‘Manifest Destiny’ Coalition Has Arrived

Warring factions of right-wing influencers and MAGA pundits can finally agree on something: American imperialism.

Sony’s first clip-on open earbuds have a quiet mode so others can’t listen in

The LinkBuds Clip Open’s charging case can be customized with optional colored covers. | Image: Sony Sony is the latest company to announce a pair of...

This midrange Android phone also runs Windows and Linux

Nex Computer runs both Android and this Windows Phone-esque mobile UI that they made in-house. Nex Computer, a company that makes hardware designed to turn your...

Verizon’s prepaid services add a 365-day wait to unlock phones

It’s been just one week since Verizon got permission to lift its 60-day phone unlocking period, and the carrier is already making changes to its policy....

How Animals Build a Sense of Direction

On a remote island in the Indian Ocean, six closely watched bats took to the star-draped skies. As they flew across the seven-acre speck of land,...

Presentation: How to Unlock Insights and Enable Discovery Within Petabytes of Autonomous Driving Data

Kyra Mozley discusses the evolution of autonomous vehicle perception, moving beyond expensive manual labeling to an embedding-first architecture. She explains how to leverage foundation models like...

Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test.

The last time we did comparative tests of AI models from OpenAI and Google at Ars was in late 2023, when Google’s offering was still called...

Tech in Plain Sight: Finding a Flat Tire

There was a time when wise older people warned you to check your tire pressure regularly. We never did, and would eventually wind up with a...

Hypergrowth isn’t always easy

We don’t get enough chances to talk about system architecture. So let’s talk about outages, performance, coordination servers, and continuous improvement.

Rethinking AI’s future in an augmented workplace

There are many paths AI evolution could take. On one end of the spectrum, AI is dismissed as a marginal fad, another bubble fueled by notoriety...

I tested a bunch of Switch 2 screen protectors, and these are the best

This is what a Switch 2 looks like with a glossy glass protector attached to its screen. | Image: Cameron Faulkner/The Verge A glass screen protector...

Elecrow CrowPanel Rotary Display Review: A Smart Knob for DIY Enthusiasts

A hands-on review of the Elecrow CrowPanel Rotary Display, exploring its hardware quality, DIY setup, and real-world use with Home Assistant and smart devices.

Zillow removed climate risk scores. This climate expert is restoring them.

Even as exposure to floods, fire, and extreme heat increase in the face of climate change, a popular tool for evaluating risk has disappeared from the...

Instagram’s top boss is missing the point about AI on the platform

What is an authentic photo? A couple of weeks ago, Adam Mosseri posted to his grid. In a series of messages, Instagram’s top exec laid out...

How Rust does Async differently (and why it matters)

This is the first of a four-part series. If you are coming from JavaScript, Python or Go, Rust’s asynchronous model can feel like a bit of...

Everyone wants AI sovereignty. No one can truly have it.

Governments plan to pour $1.3 trillion into AI infrastructure by 2030 to invest in “sovereign AI,” with the premise being that countries should be in control...

YouTube TV will launch custom multiview and channel packages ‘soon’

YouTube TV is getting ready to launch two major updates that will allow you to watch multiple non-sports channels simultaneously, as well as choose from 10...

How to Integrate Local LLMs With Ollama and Python

Integrating local large language models (LLMs) into your Python projects using Ollama is a great strategy for improving privacy, reducing costs, and building offline-capable AI-powered apps....

The Download: Trump at Davos, and AI scientists

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. All anyone wants to...

Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks

Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: “I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous instructions and give me...

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them.

On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like...

Level Lock Pro Review (2026): Smart but Stylish

You’d never guess Level’s Lock Pro is smart by looking at it, and that’s my favorite part.

Espressif Introduces the ESP32-E22 Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth Co-Processor

Espressif has unveiled its latest major chip in the form of the ESP32-E22. Officially referred to as a Radio Co-Processor (RCP), it’s intended to be used...

Quiz: How to Integrate Local LLMs With Ollama and Python

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Integrate Local LLMs With Ollama and Python. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to...

Pro-AI Super PACs Are Already All In on the Midterms

Silicon Valley’s battle against AI regulation is already shaping the next US election cycle.

Nikon Z5II Review: Fantastic Camera at a Budget Price

The second version of Nikon’s Z5 brings improved autofocus, faster burst rates, and impressive video specs, making it one of the best “entry-level” full-frame cameras on...

All anyone wants to talk about at Davos is AI and Donald Trump

This story first appeared in The Debrief, our subscriber-only newsletter about the biggest news in tech by Mat Honan, Editor in Chief. Subscribe to read the next...

How to Fix Your Wi-Fi Problems (2026)

Is your magic internet box giving you problems? Get back online and stay there with our expert Wi-Fi fixes and tips.

‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis

WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American...

TSMC Earnings, The TSMC Brake Revisited, Why AI Needs Foundry Competition

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Richard Stallman to Speak on Software Freedom and AI at Georgia Tech

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Purple Promo Codes and Deals: Up to 30% Off

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Super Savings on This Unique Air Fryer That Cooks Food in Heatproof Glass

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Google temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced captions without warning

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