Activision gets Halo, Obsidian becomes part of Bethesda, and more internal shake-ups. When Xbox announced sweeping layoffs in July as part of a brutal “reset” for the gaming brand, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said part of the pre-existing problem in the gaming unit was “teams, studios, and functions …
A combination of Chinese competition and US tariffs is causing problems in Germany. The future is looking increasingly bleak for Germany’s automotive industry. Since the turn of the century, car makers have been among the crown jewels of the German economy, punching above their weight in terms of investment…
Dyson admits a component issue but won’t say what’s failing in its $500 toothbrush. There’s always a danger in over-complicating products. Simple is so often best. The apocryphal story of NASA spending millions crafting a space pen while Soviet cosmonauts used a pencil is often cited as a prime…
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” A zero-day…
Drone boat battle occurs as Ukraine and Russia target Black Sea ports and ships. In the world’s first clash of the drone boats, a Ukrainian naval drone destroyed a Russian explosive drone boat using a remote-controlled machine gun turret. This comes as the war in Ukraine has already seen…
The new carmaker is a joint venture between the Saudi PIF and Foxconn. Ceer provided flights from Detroit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and accommodation so Ars could visit the factory. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia—It may come as a surprise to…
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director. On Friday, The Washington Post reported on a contentious White House meeting in which the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jay Bhattacharya, tried to fend off yet another effort to place funding decisions under political control.…
The M4 Mac mini was one of Apple’s best values. The $899 M6 mini, not so much. The new Mac mini is the kind of Mac upgrade Apple has done a million times. It’s the same design as before but with new guts. These play-it-safe updates aren’t very exciting, but they’re…
Googlebooks offer premium hardware and deep smartphone integration, but you may not like the price. Google is ready to take a swing at laptops… again. The company has had a lot of success in phones, but it has struggled to parlay that into an effective strategy for larger screens.…
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP’s inner circle. Before two of its alleged members were arrested and charged in Australia last month, the hacker group known as TeamPCP carried out a hacking spree unlike any other in history. It tainted hundreds of open-source programs…
