Once rare $14K knife now sells for $7K, some common guns jump from $10 to over $100. From the outside, Counter-Strike 2 looks a lot like a game that’s primarily about shooting people. For millions of players, though, the game is more about collecting and/or buying rare in-game loot…
Three days with a car revealed its character in more ways than one. Ferrari provided flights from Washington, DC, to Austin, Texas, and accommodation so Ars could attend the Lone Star Le Mans. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. The first time I drove this generation of mid-engined…
New phone design compromises on camera and battery to achieve a lighter weight. Apple’s iPhone Air was the company’s most interesting new iPhone this year, at least insofar as it was the one most different from previous iPhones. We came away impressed by its size and weight in our…
China weakness, US tariffs, and disappointing uptake of battery vehicles lurk in background. Porsche’s new boss was a skeptic of battery motors for luxury vehicles long before he was picked to lead the revival of the petrol engine at the German sports car group. “The technology isn’t ready,” Michael…
“All of the pieces that are required to make it viable exist.” Defense contractors are in full sales mode to win a piece of a potentially trillion-dollar pie for development of the Trump administration’s proposed Golden Dome missile shield. CEOs are touting their companies’ ability to rapidly spool up…
At least one CVE could weaken defenses put in place following 2008 disclosure. The makers of BIND, the Internet’s most widely used software for resolving domain names, are warning of two vulnerabilities that allow attackers to poison entire caches of results and send users to malicious destinations that are…
A loss of regulatory credits and increased expenses didn’t help. Tesla reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2025 this afternoon. Earlier this month, we learned that the electric vehicle manufacturer had a pretty good Q3 in terms of sales, which grew by 7.3 percent year over…
Do we want LLMs in our cars? GM thinks we do. GM provided flights from Detroit to New York City and accommodation so Ars could attend its tech event. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. General Motors held a preview event today to show the world what it’s…
It may not be as spendy as the Vision Pro, but $1,800 is still a lot. The era of Android virtual reality is here… again. Google’s first two attempts at making Android fit for your face didn’t work out, but the AI era and a partnership with Samsung have…
“Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position …” This week’s Amazon Web Services outage had some people waking up on the wrong side of the bed. A Domain Name System (DNS) resolution problem affected AWS cloud hosting, resulting in an outage that impacted more than…
