Lawmakers just advanced online safety laws that require age verification at the app store
A package of child safety bills is headed to the House floor following an hours-long session that left Democrats and…
March 2026
‘Girl Dinner’ Takes on a Deliciously Grisly New Meaning in This Speculative Short Story
Read Jilly Dreadful’s ‘Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest Proposal for Ensuring Gender Equality Through Selective Dietary Practices; or, a Geriatric…
The Pentagon formally labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference on US military action in Iran, at the Pentagon in…
MS exec: Microsoft’s next console will play “Xbox and PC games”
Last summer, we here at Ars made the argument that the company’s next Xbox console should give up the walled…
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are “unreviewable,” DOJ lawyer tells judge
A lawyer for the Trump administration told a federal judge Wednesday that anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has…
Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems
Based on over 20,000 reports, Amazon appears to be experiencing an outage. According to Downdetector, reports of problems started increasing…
OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability
In keeping with its recently accelerated release cadence, OpenAI has shipped GPT-5.4 (including GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro). This update…
‘One Piece’ Straw Hat Pirates, Ranked
Not all nakama are created equal, so here’s our ranking of our favorite Straw Hats from least to most favorite.
Nation-State Actor Embraces AI Malware Assembly Line
Pakistan’s APT36 threat group has begun using vibe-coding to churn out mediocre malware, but at a scale that could overwhelm…
Sam Altman Says ‘Government Should Be More Powerful Than Corporations.’ Which Government?
Being an international software giant with singular loyalty to Donald Trump is an impossible mission.