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The European Parliament just drew a line in the sand on digital privacy. It said no to mass scanning of private messages. No to breaking encryption. No to what critics called the most sweeping surveillance proposal ever floated in a Western democracy. But the forces behind that proposal haven’t gone away. And the legislative machinery

John Carmack doesn’t sugarcoat things. The legendary programmer — co-creator of Doom, former CTO of Oculus VR, and now full-time AI entrepreneur — posted a stark assessment on X that cuts against the breathless optimism saturating Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence discourse. His message, delivered with the matter-of-fact directness that has defined his public commentary for

The most expensive privately funded subsea cable ever attempted is running into trouble that no amount of engineering can fix. Meta’s 2Africa Pearls project, a 45,000-kilometer fiber-optic ring designed to encircle the African continent and extend into the Middle East and beyond, has been delayed again—this time by armed conflict in the Red Sea region.

The email came late on a Sunday evening. Government employees across several Asian capitals were told not to report to their offices the next morning. The reason wasn’t a typhoon or a pandemic sequel. It was war — or the growing specter of one — thousands of miles away in the Middle East. As tensions

Reddit wants to decide who gets to read the internet. Not just who posts on it, or who moderates it, but who — or what — is allowed to look at the publicly available pages its users create. The company’s recent lawsuit against an unnamed data-scraping operation, filed in the Northern District of California, isn’t

A Pennsylvania man spent months trying to get AT&T to reverse a $6,196 charge for equipment he’d already returned. The carrier wouldn’t budge. Then a reporter from Ars Technica got involved, and the bill vanished within days. The case, first reported by Ars Technica, is a case study in how major telecommunications companies handle —

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell before his term expires in May 2026, but the legal skirmish — and the political tensions fueling it — are far from over. The case, brought during a period of extraordinary friction between the White House and the central

For decades, the internal combustion engine defined automotive engineering around a single variable: horsepower. Now, a different number is reshaping the electric vehicle industry from the wiring harness up. Eight hundred volts. That figure — roughly double the 400-volt architecture that has powered most electric vehicles since the modern EV era began — is fast

Adobe will pay $4.95 million to settle a federal lawsuit that accused the software giant of burying early termination fees deep within its subscription sign-up process — charges that hit consumers with hundreds of dollars when they tried to cancel plans they didn’t fully understand they’d committed to. The settlement, announced in late June 2025,

Steven Spielberg has something to say about artificial intelligence, and it isn’t what most people expected. In an era when Hollywood directors have lined up to denounce machine-learning tools as existential threats to creative work, the man who directed A.I. Artificial Intelligence more than two decades ago is staking out a more textured position. Spielberg