Anduril, the autonomous weapons maker, doubles the size of its space unit

Anduril Industries announced on Wednesday that it is acquiring ExoAnalytic Solutions, a space intelligence firm that operates a vast network of sensors monitoring the veiled movements of satellites ...

Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov’t probes into sanctioned crypto transfers

Binance is hoping that suing The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes ...

14,000 routers are infected by malware that’s highly resistant to takedowns

Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by Asus—that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously ...

NIH director launches “Scientific Freedom” lectures with non-scientist

The “freedom” theme echoes one of the major concerns of the director of the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, who feels he suffered ...

Nvidia is reportedly planning its own open source OpenClaw competitor

Chipmaker Nvidia is preparing to launch its own open source AI agent platform to compete with the likes of OpenClaw, ...

Topic: space surveillance

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“Use a gun” or “beat the crap out of him”: AI chatbot urged violence, study finds

An advocacy group said its study of 10 artificial intelligence chatbots found that most of them gave at least some help to users planning violent attacks and that nearly all failed to discourage users ...

Windows 11’s Steam Deck-ish, streamlined Xbox gaming UI comes to all PCs in April

When Asus and Microsoft launched the ROG Xbox Ally X last summer, it came with a bespoke controller-driven full-screen interface running on top of Windows 11. The handheld was still running Windows ...

Explain it like I’m 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?

The key to working at a place like Ars Technica is solid news judgment. I’m talking about the kind of news judgment that knows whether a pet peeve is merely a pet peeve or whether it is, instead, a ...

Report: RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda curbed as GOP realizes it’s unpopular

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s relentless anti-vaccine agenda is getting reined in as Republicans warn that further attacks on lifesaving vaccines could harm the party during the midterms, ...

FCC chair blasts Amazon after it criticizes SpaceX megaconstellation

Last Friday, Amazon petitioned the FCC to deny SpaceX’s request. The company founded by Jeff Bezos said SpaceX, in its application, “seems to describe a lofty ambition rather than a real plan.” Amazon ...

Intel shores up its desktop CPU lineup with boosted Core Ultra 200S Plus chips

Intel doesn’t have a next-generation upgrade available for desktops yet, but it is shoring up its desktop lineup with a pair of upgraded chips. The Core Ultra 200S Plus processors (also referred to as ...