Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You. We live in a digitally connected world that has brought undeniable personal benefits. I can barely recall the pre-Google Maps era, but it was far less convenient to navigate unfamiliar…
Motorola’s budget phones are much less budget-friendly today. Motorola announced a new mid-range phone yesterday, the 2026 Moto G Stylus. It’s not exactly a game changer unless you demand a stylus with your smartphone. Despite little in the way of upgrades, the new G Stylus will debut at $500,…
JSON text strings suggest performance charts based on “framerates of other Steam users.” Back in February, Valve gave Steam client beta users the option to share anonymized framerate data and hardware information with the company to “help us learn about game compatibility and improve Steam.” Now, new text buried…
Post-2013 Kindles will continue to work, even if they no longer receive updates. If you own an older Kindle e-reader, including models with physical keyboards or physical page-turn buttons that you’ve been reluctant to give up, Amazon has bad news for you. The company sent a message to owners…
European buyers aren’t interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn’t care. As the European Union and the US try to negotiate a satisfactory resolution to the trade war President Trump started last year, a new complication has emerged. It seems the American auto industry is not happy about…
End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries. The Russian military is once again hacking home and small office routers in widespread operations that send unwitting users to sites that harvest passwords and credential tokens for use in espionage campaigns, researchers said Tuesday. An estimated 18,000…
New app can replace third-party options that were jankier to use. Valve is bringing Steam Link, its local network game-streaming app, to Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset, allowing Vision Pro users to play traditional games from their Steam library wirelessly from a nearby Mac or PC. We say…
The MacBook Neo is a step in the right direction, though. Apple earned the lowest grades in a report on laptop and smartphone repairability released today by the consumer advocacy group Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. The report, which looks at how easy devices are to disassemble…
Use of AI coding tools has become a convenient boogeyman for any tech issues. Social network Bluesky saw some intermittent service disruptions on Monday. On its own, this fact isn’t that noteworthy—Bluesky has seen similar service disruptions in the past, and this one coincided with widespread service problems being…
Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many. One point in favor of the sprawling Linux ecosystem is its broad hardware support—the kernel officially supports everything from ’90s-era PC hardware to Arm-based Apple Silicon chips, thanks to decades of combined effort from…
