Two additional marketing companies will also pay $25,000 each. In November 2023, we reported on dubious claims made by marketing firm Cox Media Group (CMG) Local Solutions. The company advertised a service called Active Listening on a website that said, “It’s true. Your devices are listening to you” and…
The first data from 2026 seem to indicate that last year was an oddity. Last year, the first few months of data from the US grid suggested that fears of a data-center-driven surge in demand were becoming a reality. Demand had risen by about 3 percent, triggering a surge…
Keep the charging puck’s exposed pins far away from anything metal. When we reviewed the new Steam Controller last month, we noted how the satisfying click of the magnetic charging puck easily connecting to the back of the controller lets users “save the hassle of fiddling with a power…
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks. A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but…
Engineers could make another attempt to launch Starship as soon as Friday evening. SpaceX got within 40 seconds of launching the first flight of a taller, more powerful version of its Starship rocket Thursday, but a pesky problem with the launch tower kept the vehicle bound to Earth for…
“The move to AcuRite NOW has not been as smooth as some customers expected…” AcuRite must kill its customers’ favorite companion app due to “obsolete technology,” VP of product development Jeff Bovee tells Ars Technica. AcuRite, which makes smart weather-monitoring devices, announced this month that the My AcuRite iOS…
The differences seen here could be throwing off how we study planetary atmospheres. WASP-94A b is a hot, tidally locked gas giant orbiting close to one of the stars in a binary system roughly 690 light-years away from Earth. In a new Science study, scientists led by Sagnick Mukherjee,…
Beneficiaries include startup backed by firm with links to the Trump family. The US government will take equity stakes worth a total of $2 billion in a slew of quantum computing companies, including a startup backed by a firm with links to the Trump family and one taken public…
Toyota is the latest automaker to report PHEV charging stats, and they’re encouraging. Plug-in hybrid powertrains were developed to be the best of both worlds: a combustion engine and fuel tank that can handle those longer journeys exactly the same as a non-hybrid car, with an electric motor and…
The 2027 Audi Q9’s digital matrix lights satisfy new NHTSA rules on minimizing glare. Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could test out its headlights, as well as some other things you can read about in the coming weeks. Ars does not…
