The grid is becoming cleaner thanks to projects that have been in the works for years. The United States added 22,332 megawatts of power plant capacity in the first half of this year, and the vast majority of it was utility-scale solar, batteries, and onshore wind. Natural gas was…
Frantic positional resource management is engrossing without becoming overwhelming. As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of units, upgrade trees, and surprise encounters with the enemy requires…
“AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work. AI tools are widely used by software developers, but those devs and their managers are still grappling with figuring out how exactly to best put the tools to use, with growing pains emerging along the…
End goal is the installation of a malicious TLS root certificate for use in intel gathering. Russian-state hackers are targeting foreign embassies in Moscow with custom malware that gets installed using adversary-in-the-middle attacks that operate at the ISP level, Microsoft warned Thursday. The campaign has been ongoing since last…
Google’s failed appeal could open up the market for Android apps. Google has lost its appeal in the long-running app store antitrust case, which marks another major victory for Epic Games. Google lost the original case in 2023 when a jury found it abused its market position in smartphones…
We hope downforce doesn’t ruin the racing when it arrives in a couple of years. Formula E provided flights from Washington to London and accommodation so Ars could attend the London ePrix. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. LONDON, ENGLAND—Formula E’s 11th season came to a close in…
Nvidia will cover gamers who take advantage of Windows 10’s extended updates. If you last updated your gaming PC in late 2016, Nvidia has two pieces of bad news to share with you today. First, it will no longer support the Maxwell, Pascal, or Volta GPU architectures with new…
US semiconductor giant is trying to revive sales in the country. Beijing has summoned Nvidia over alleged security issues with its chips, in a blow to the US company’s push to revive sales in the country after Washington granted approval for the export of a made-for-China chip. China’s cyber…
Samsung’s new flagship foldable is a huge improvement over last year’s model. The first foldable phones hit the market six years ago, and they were rife with compromises and shortcomings. Many of those problems have persisted, but little by little, foldables have gotten better. With the release of the…
Sophisticated group also used novel means to disguise their custom malware. Hackers planted a Raspberry Pi equipped with a 4G modem in the network of an unnamed bank in an attempt to siphon money out of the financial institution’s ATM system, researchers reported Wednesday. The researchers with security firm…
