Toy company may regret coming for “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker, experts say
A popular account on TikTok and Instagram stopped posting suddenly at the end of last year, hit by a lawsuit after garnering millions of views on funny videos using adorable…
2025 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante: A-M’s ultimate GT goes topless
We live in the era of the electric car—lightning that can’t be put back in its bottle. This is important to keep in mind when we talk about new cars…
Amazon Ring Cashes In On Techno-Authoritarianism And Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech…
Ars Live: Consumer tech firms stuck scrambling ahead of looming chip tariffs
We’re roughly six months into Donald Trump’s trade war, and tech firms remain in a fog, unsure what tariffs or retaliations could be coming next. To shed light on this…
Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
Google’s search results have undergone a seismic shift over the past year as AI fever has continued to escalate among the tech giants. Nowhere is this change more apparent than…
California backs down to Trump admin, won’t force ISPs to offer $15 broadband
A California lawmaker halted an effort to pass a law that would force Internet service providers to offer $15 monthly plans to people with low incomes. Assemblymember Tasha Boerner proposed…
Marine biologist for a day: Ars goes shark tagging
MIAMI—We were beginning to run out of bait, and the sharks weren’t cooperating. Everybody aboard the Research Vessel Garvin had come to Miami for the sharks—to catch them, sample them,…
Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe
Belief in conspiracy theories is often attributed to some form of motivated reasoning: People want to believe a conspiracy because it reinforces their worldview, for example, or doing so meets…
Apple Intelligence news summaries are back, with a big red disclaimer
Apple has released the fourth developer betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 and its other next-generation software updates today. And along with their other changes and fixes, the…
Judge Reinstates Fired FTC Commissioner While Everyone (Including The Judge) Knows The Supreme Court Will Overturn
Judge Loren AliKhan knows exactly how this story ends, but she’s going to make the Supreme Court write the final chapter themselves. Her ruling reinstating illegally fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca…