How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
…you’ve got a technology that fundamentally is interesting, and has done useful things, and will do useful things in the future—that’s a better setup than one in which we…
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Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus
…So as quiet Internet whispers turned into widespread cacophonous praise—the little indie game quickly racked up 100,000 sales and an “overwhelmingly positive” review score on Steam—I set aside my…
eBay rejects GameStop's $56B offer: "Your proposal is neither credible nor attractive"
…A set of GameStop store signs being sold by Cohen has been bid up to nearly $15,000. A Halo 2 Master Chief statue is fetching almost as much, and a Ken…
Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”
…Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. He has journalism and computer science degrees from…
Mina the Hollower is the best old-school action adventure I've played in a while
…Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. He has journalism and computer science degrees from…
How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
…This is the second of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data centers into space…
The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
…Testing from Ars and other outlets has shown a small but consistent performance lead for SteamOS when running the same games at the same settings, particularly on systems like the Steam Deck…
RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony's disc-free PlayStation plan
…Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. He has journalism and computer science degrees from…
The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
…He has previously written for New Scientist, Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Wired, Undark Magazine and MIT Tech Review, among many other publications, about topics such as deepfakes, data centers, drones, battery tech…
Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
…Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica, with a focus on consumer tech including computer hardware and in-depth reviews of operating systems like Windows and macOS. Andrew lives in…