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Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let's be hasty
20 March 2026 @ 11:45 am
"Our security, our prosperity, and our sovereignty will increasingly extend beyond our atmosphere."
Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?
20 March 2026 @ 11:00 am
Ars speaks with a linguist about the ease with which Grace and Rocky communicate.
RFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept's expert panels
19 March 2026 @ 10:34 pm
Under Kennedy, the health dept. has wiped out 75 advisory boards, corrupted others.
Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program
19 March 2026 @ 9:29 pm
Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market "realities."
Millions of iPhones can be hacked with a new tool found in the wild
19 March 2026 @ 8:11 pm
DarkSword, a powerful iPhone-hacking technique, has been discovered in use by Russian hackers.
FBI started buying Americans' location data again, Kash Patel confirms
19 March 2026 @ 7:57 pm
Tom Cotton supports FBI data purchasing, compares it to searching people's trash.
Dogfighting in space won't look like the movies, but this company wants in on it
19 March 2026 @ 7:45 pm
"Where we are today in space warfare is very similar to where air superiority was in the 1930s."
OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral
19 March 2026 @ 6:44 pm
Codex maker says it will "continue to support these open source projects" after deal closes.
Meta decides not to kill Horizon Worlds VR after all
19 March 2026 @ 5:50 pm
VR will be on life support while mobile remains the focus, though.
Afroman keeps trolling cops after winning “Lemon Pound Cake” defamation case
19 March 2026 @ 5:45 pm
Cops asked the jury for millions after Afroman used raid footage in music videos.