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Microsoft would really like you to replace your old Windows 10 …
1 day ago · A limited-time escape hatch. Mehdi declined to mention that Windows 10 users who want to stay Windows 10 users do have an escape hatch. The company's Extended Security Update (ESU) program for ...
Elon Musk: “We’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction.”
3 days ago · Although SpaceX founder Elon Musk is known for outspokenness and controversial comments on his social media site X, he has been relatively restrained when it comes to US space policy in recent years.
Rumors say next-gen RTX 50 GPUs will come with big jumps in …
3 days ago · Nvidia is reportedly gearing up to launch the first few cards in its RTX 50-series at CES next week, including an RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070. The 5090 will be of particular ...
Ars Frontiers 2023 Ars Technica: Ars Frontiers
Over the course of a day, our Ars Frontiers event will explore the modern interconnectedness of innovation in areas like machine learning & artificial intelligence, space exploration & climate change, and healthcare & epidemiology. As we do so, we will keep asking one key question: Can we still drive explosive growth in these fields while prioritizing ethical behavior and sustainability?
Bob Dylan has some Dylanesque thoughts on the “sorcery” of …
3 days ago · With the holiday release of the biopic A Complete Unknown, Bob Dylan is once again in the national spotlight.For me, the film provided a welcome excuse to read up on Dylan, who has always been a ...
The 20 most-read stories of 2024 on Ars Technica
Dec 25, 2024 · xz Utils is a popular open-source data-compression utility for *nix OSes. In late March, one developer floored developers everywhere when he revealed a backdoor in the utility. The malicious code ...
Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
Nov 6, 2024 · From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the ...
macOS 15 Sequoia: The Ars Technica review
Sep 18, 2024 · The macOS 15 Sequoia update will inevitably be known as "the AI one" in retrospect, introducing, as it does, the first wave of "Apple Intelligence" features.That's funny because none of that stuff ...
Surface Pro 11 and Laptop 7 review: An Apple Silicon moment for …
Jul 2, 2024 · When Apple released the first couple of Apple Silicon Macs back in late 2020, the one thing the company pointedly did not change was the exterior design. Apple didn't comment much on it at the ...