Google’s SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn’t solve AI disinformation
Deciding what’s real on the Internet won’t be easy in the future.
Ryan Whitwam
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Features
Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
Framework’s latest modular laptop trades one set of problems for another.
Andrew Cunningham
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Visitors at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience
Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape.
Mureji Fatunde-Iloeje
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Photograph of a workspace with 3d printed clock components and some electronics
I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.
Sure, maybe your clock has a backup battery, but mine has a deployment pipeline!
Lee Hutchinson
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When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?
Automakers love connected vehicles, but support isn’t open-ended.
Michael Harley
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Kimi Antonelli of Italy driving the F1 race car No 12, the Mercedes-AMG F1 W17 for the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team, on track on Eau Rouge turn during the F1 Grand Prix of Belgium at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium on July 19, 2026. Kimi Antonelli was the winner of the race. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
F1 in Belgium: Machine learning algorithms are ruining the sport
Many will say Spa is the best racetrack on earth, but not for these F1 cars.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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A Lucid Gravity parked in the desert
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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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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Most Read
Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models
Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what’s still unsettled.
Samuel Axon
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Two men with laptops sit in the front seats of a car
Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning
Now it’s an arms race between OEMs locking down chips and tuners trying to crack them.
Peter Nelson
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Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That’s finally changing.
“The Starship Pez dispenser demonstrates very smart industrial design and scale.”
Stephen Clark
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Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
“HalluSquatting” weaponizes LLMs’ inability to say “I don’t know.”
Dan Goodin
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A humanoid robot with a green torso holds a large bin in two hands.
How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces—and maybe homes
Top robotics researchers and founders explain how robot autonomy is evolving.
Jeremy Hsu
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Despite the darkness, I still see signs of hope in America
It’s difficult to pinpoint the moment in my life where America started to lose the plot.
Eric Berger
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Editorial: It’s time to step up and have your say for science
Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter.
John Timmer
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Trump’s plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors
A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.
Ashley Belanger
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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first supersonic flight Friday, June 5, 2026. The aircraft was photographed mid-flight with its needle-like tapered nose pointing to the left as it flew against a dark blue sky above California's Mojave Desert.
NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom
NASA’s quiet supersonic flight tests could eventually go on a national tour.
Jeremy Hsu
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A slate truck in profile below a sign with the 24950ドル price
Underpromise, overdeliver? Hands-on with the 24,950ドル Slate auto.
It has 205 miles of bare-bones range.
Roberto Baldwin
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Balding man wearing striped shirt and jacket standing against blue background with hands in pockets.
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
Jennifer Ouellette
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This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it
“I don’t know of a bigger question we can answer as humans.”
Eric Berger
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As global warming threatens corals, scientists search for reefs that can take the heat
Researchers say these coral strongholds may help repopulate more degraded reefs.
Inside Climate News
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an illustration showing a man with a beard burying a child, with a lake in the background
Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago
We can’t blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.
Kiona N. Smith
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Image of a person selecting "Ars"
The Ars Technica 2026 Reader Survey: Let your voice be heard!
Tell us how you read Ars, and what you’d like to see more (or less!) of on the front page.
Ken Fisher
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20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again
Remembering the ups and downs of the Intel Mac era as it finally winds down.
Andrew Cunningham
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Outside a Verizon corporate building, a sculpture displays Verizon's logo with the letters V-E-R-Z-O-N and a space in the middle where the letter "I" should be.
Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely
Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.
Jon Brodkin
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Several things I like about macOS 27 Golden Gate that have nothing to do with AI
AI aside, Golden Gate includes a bunch of subtle-but-helpful improvements.
Andrew Cunningham
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160
A white Rivian R2 splashes through a stream
First Drive: The 2027 Rivian R2 entirely changes the EV game
Rivian’s second EV is the sub-60,000ドル R2, and it was worth the wait.
Michael Teo Van Runkle
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The weather and climate science AI revolution isn’t revolutionary
Machine learning has its limits—how is it being used?
Scott K. Johnson
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Review: AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a disappointing way to spend 549ドル
The superior RX 9070 also launched for 549ドル just over a year ago.
Andrew Cunningham
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My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with
Columbia admits last year’s data breach exposed victims beyond its students, staff.
Ashley Belanger
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How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin’s launch pad? We asked some SpaceX vets.
“Everyone is in a place where it’s no fun to be there.”
Eric Berger
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An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years
I tried to explain OpenAI’s solution more clearly than OpenAI did.
Kai Williams
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Here’s why the failure of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic
“I hope that it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage.”
Eric Berger
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435
A red Ferrari Luce, head-on
Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari’s first electric car
The interior is spectacular; the exterior looks better in person than on screen.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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The 58,000ドル TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy
In 2001, the FBI raided O.J.’s house and found smartcards, bootloaders.
Nate Anderson
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Yearslong fight over users’ right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial
Access to TV OS’s source code could allow users to limit ads, tracking.
Scharon Harding
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