‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds An Ally In An EU Politician
We just talked about Ross Scott’s Stop Killing Games initiative, started last year, which has found new life recently due to an online back and forth with some gaming industry…
2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA feels like a real car, not a science experiment
Mercedes provided flights from Detroit to Copenhagen, Denmark, and accommodation so Ars could drive the CLA with EQ Technology. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. The Mercedes-Benz CLA is…
More VMware cloud partners axed as Broadcom launches new invite-only program
Broadcom is kicking some cloud service providers (CSPs) out of the VMware channel partner program, bringing uncertainty for the technological and financial futures of numerous businesses, especially small-to-medium-sized ones. As…
Axon’s Draft One Is Designed To Defy Transparency
Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could…
Google finds custom backdoor being installed on SonicWall network devices
Researchers from the Google Threat Intelligence Group said that hackers are compromising SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances, which sit at the edge of enterprise networks and manage and secure…
Trump Administration Injects Even More Bigotry Into The US Military
Trump claims to love the military. Of course, he loves himself even more. And he tends to view those injured, killed, or captured by enemy forces as “suckers” and “losers.”…
Introducing the Ars Technica Posting Guidelines version 3.0
Ars Technica’s community is—in our biased opinion—second to none online. For more than 26 years, readers have enabled and inspired our work, creating a community with an amazing signal-to-noise ratio.…
Linda Hamilton rocks Stranger Things’ S5 extended teaser
Netflix has finally released an extended teaser for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, airing late this year. It’s got everything we could hope for in terms of…
Permit for xAI’s data center blatantly violates Clean Air Act, NAACP says
xAI continues to face backlash over its Memphis data center, as the NAACP joined groups today appealing the issuance of a recently granted permit that the groups say will allow…
Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors
Valve’s famously permissive rules for what games are and are not allowed on Steam got a little less permissive this week, seemingly in response to outside pressure from some of…