Not exactly a 25-character, randomized string of numbers, letters, cases, and symbols. (credit: Dan Goodin) There are certain sci-fi promises the future is supposed to hold: jetpacks, flying cars, a Mars colony. But there are Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Suebsiri Srithanyarat / EyeEm / Getty Images) As many as 1,500 businesses around the world have been infected by highly destructive malware that first struck software maker Kaseya. In one of the worst Read more…
Enlarge / The Bugatti Chiron will be joined by new electrified models. (credit: Bugatti) For almost a year, a rumor has been circulating that Volkswagen Group plans to offload Bugatti to Croatian electric vehicle specialists Read more…
(credit: Sean Gallagher) Update, July 5, 2021: It’s the July 4 holiday weekend in the US, which means Ars staff gets a well-deserved holiday to catch up on this summer’s Steam sale (or maybe just Read more…
The first of Wimbledon’s tech bunkers, operated by IBM. This is the data ingestion room. For more data on the IBM tech bunker, read our story from a couple of years ago. [credit: Sebastian Anthony Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Google has given the boot to nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company’s Play marketplace after researchers said these apps used a sneaky Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Like most Internet-of-things devices these days, Amazon’s Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a factory reset so, as the corporate behemoth says, users can “remove any … personal content Read more…
Enlarge A Wall Street regulator has ordered the retail trading platform Robinhood to pay more than $70m in penalties for causing what it described as “widespread and significant” harm to its customers. The Financial Industry Read more…
Enlarge SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his company’s Starlink division is trying to cut the price of its user terminal from $500 to as low as $250. Starlink has been charging $99 a month for Internet Read more…
Enlarge Microsoft gave its digital imprimatur to a rootkit that decrypted encrypted communications and sent them to attacker-controlled servers, the company and outside researchers said. The blunder allowed the malware to be installed on Windows Read more…