Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy. A surge in Russian jet-powered drone strikes on Ukrainian data centers has increasingly disrupted mobile phone and Internet services for thousands of people. Now Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government officials are warning of the need for more…
A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot. Well, it’s safe to say no Bahrain Grand Prix has been affected by torrential rain quite like the 2026 race. For one thing, it was held several thousand miles from Bahrain itself. The ongoing war with Iran…
Ars Technica’s guide to new keyboard sensing technologies. The mechanical keyboard isn’t always so mechanical anymore. Over the past six years, keyboards with optical, Hall-effect, and other “contactless” switches have become increasingly common, often going for higher prices than traditional mechanical keyboards, which already command a premium over basic…
Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls Egyptologists have long debated whether the earliest pharoahs of the First Dynasty were buried with various servants and officials to serve them in the afterlife—a form of human sacrifice. But…
Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners, Loki) narrates NatGeo’s new documentary Africa: Earth’s Wild Home Chimps fish for algae in a rare example of primate tool use. Credit: National Geographic A wild African black panther prowls for prey. An orphaned baby pangolin must learn how to climb on its own. And a…
The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity. If one form of energy becomes the cheapest, most secure, and cleanest, you’d probably adjust your economy to use more of it, right? That’s one of the ideas underpinning a report…
The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks. This year, members of Seattle Mountain Rescue have been setting off into the wilds of the US Pacific Northwest wearing an unusual piece of kit. They’ve been hiking into the wilderness with powered assistive devices attached…
Meta says FDA isn’t sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ. Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories. Friday’s announcement comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose…
1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps. “Rendering Doom in a database is obviously a bad idea,” Lukas Vogel writes in a lengthy blog post explaining how exactly he managed to render Doom using an SQL database. OK, that’s not entirely accurate.…
It wasn’t obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth. One argument that often comes up about climate change is that fossil fuels are good because they powered economic growth that has left most people better off overall. And, to an extent, that has…
