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A car you can chat with and that gets you? Volvo dishes on AI-wielding EX60.

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 01/15/2026 03:00 EDT

In-car personal assistants are about to get useful, it looks like. Read more ›

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A British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 19:01 EDT

Shadrack Byfield lost his left arm in the War of 1812; his life sheds light on post-war re-integration. Read more ›

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Pentagon’s “Arsenal of Freedom” tour borrows name from Star Trek episode—about killer AI

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Cyrus Farivar @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 18:43 EDT

AI weapons systems may annihilate their creators. Read more ›

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SC measles outbreak has gone berserk: 124 cases since Friday, 409 quarantined

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 18:08 EDT

On Jan. 6, there were 211 cases. The outbreak, which began in October, is now at 434. Read more ›

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A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 17:03 EDT

Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows. Read more ›

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I can’t stop shooting Oddcore’s endless waves of weird little guys

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 16:42 EDT

Zippy action, fun upgrade system make for a great pick-up-and-play shooter. Read more ›

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FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 16:30 EDT

FBI searches home and devices of reporter who has over 1,100 government contacts. Read more ›

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US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 15:49 EDT

Scheme allegedly cost taxpayers $150,000. Read more ›

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Musk claims Grok made “literally zero” naked child sex images as probes begin

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 15:39 EDT

California's AG will investigate whether Musk’s nudifying bot broke US laws. Read more ›

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Federal data underscores meteoric rise of streaming subscription prices in 2025

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 14:56 EDT

Streaming services played a big role in 2025 inflation. Read more ›

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Civilization VII is headed to iPhone and iPad with “Arcade Edition”

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 13:45 EDT

Apple's platforms are also getting Retrocade, a library of classic arcade games. Read more ›

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Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 12:46 EDT

Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans. Read more ›

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Man got $2,500 whole-body MRI that found no problems—then had massive stroke

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 12:25 EDT

The MRI showed a problem in a brain artery that should have been flagged, man claims. Read more ›

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Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach

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Kiona N. Smith @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 12:01 EDT

Fortunately for paleogeneticists, wolf puppies don't chew their food thoroughly. Read more ›

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Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 11:42 EDT

The feature will start with paid users only, and it's off by default. Read more ›

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Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 11:08 EDT

Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools. Read more ›

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EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines

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Teresa Tomassoni, Inside Climate News @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 09:01 EDT

A new rule aims to speed up and streamline the permitting process. Read more ›

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Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes.

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 01/14/2026 08:31 EDT

The requirements won't go far enough for many, but it's a start. Read more ›

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BMW’s first electric M car is coming in 2027—with one motor per wheel

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 01/13/2026 18:01 EDT

Here's what we know about the first BMW EV to wear a proper M badge. Read more ›

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The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 01/13/2026 17:34 EDT

“General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while ..." Read more ›

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