The tinkerers who opened up a fancy coffee maker to AI brewing An Ars author slightly surrenders to chatbot-made profiles and automated brews. image
Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star The program has saved consumers billions of dollars since its inception. image
Linux to end support for 1989’s hottest chip, the 486, with next release Linus Torvalds sees "zero real reason for anybody to waste one second" on them. image
Trump cuts tariff on UK cars; American carmakers not happy about it The UK is allowed to export 100,000 cars a year to the US at the lower rate. image
Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US EU will spend over $500 million to recruit researchers and scientists. image
Baby hospitalizations from RSV fell up to 71% with new vaccine, treatment CDC study finds big declines in hospitalizations—and they may be underestimates. image
DOGE software engineer’s computer infected by info-stealing malware The presence of credentials in leaked "stealer logs" indicates his device was infected. image
Climate disasters that cost billions will go untracked thanks to Trump cuts US abruptly stops tracking costs of the most devastating storms. image
Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of “killing” children with DOGE-led USAID cuts "The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one." image
Cue: Apple will add AI search in mobile Safari, challenging Google “Prior to AI, my feeling around this was none of the others were valid choices." image