There are more than a quarter of a million V2G-capable GM EVs on the roads already. Electric vehicle sales might be better now than the end of last year when demand fell off a cliff following the surge of purchases ahead of the end of the federal financial incentives,…
A separate zero-day also disclosed by Nightmare Eclipse appears to be patched as well. Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for two high-severity zero-days that were disclosed by a researcher who has been locked in a testy beef with the software giant. Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym the researcher goes by,…
Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a “spiky,” cyclical, and asynchronous process. People often speak metaphorically of the heartbeat or pulse of a city, but according to the authors of a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, cities do indeed…
Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output. The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power. It involves getting a better understanding of how to control fusion in a tokamak-style reactor using the currently under construction ITER reactor, and then using that knowledge to…
Netflix’s response: “Absurd.” Paramount Skydance is accusing Netflix of maintaining a campaign against its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). In a June 5 letter (PDF) addressed to Jared A. Hughes, acting section chief of the Media, Entertainment, and Communications Section of the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s)…
Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back. One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code. The most…
US Navy’s Task Force 59 achieved the drone rescue at sea near Strait of Hormuz. A drone boat picked up two US Army pilots from waters near the Strait of Hormuz after their helicopter gunship went down, US military officials said. The incident apparently represents the first time the…
Use-after-free bug can be exploited to evade sandbox defenses. Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don’t often see: a single errant character inside the kernel. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23111, is located in nf_tables,…
Individual gold atoms move around to form oxidation-proof structures. Gold is weird. It’s one of the few metals that doesn’t really oxidize. Even silver and copper—from the same column of the periodic table—form weak oxides. Naively, you might expect that gold would tarnish just like silver. Gold also sits…
At night, the car projects its turn signals onto the road to alert other road users. Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could see the Q7, as well as the Q9. We also drove the new RS5. Ars does not accept paid…
