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Until last week, India had no Public Backbone Interfaces for the reticulum. I started one last week so we could have one in India. I really wanted one in Bangalore, but the Mumbai server was the cheapest. So I set up one in Mumbai. Of course, you can use the one outside India;...

A poignant short documentary about a mother who only knows her son is alive by the new graffiti tags he leaves around town. Eventually, she started tagging back…

‘We Don’t Need Fifty More Data Centers’ Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is making the waning days of her campaign...

Anthropic’s S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long—and it leaves out quite a few financial details. “Anthropic owes investors more information,” one analyst tells WIRED.

AI’s rapid expansion is creating problems across the industry, from chip shortages to autonomous agents that exceed their instructions. On the latest episode of This Week in AI, we examined those challenges alongside growing regulatory scrutiny and an emerging debate about whether AI systems themselves might deserve protection. Chip production can’t match AI demand AI […]

Spend a week with almost any infrastructure team in 2026 and you’ll see one AI subscription producing five very different results. One engineer opens 40 pull requests before lunch across repositories they haven’t touched in a year. Another ships a Terraform change they couldn’t explain in a code review. A third hasn’t opened the tool […]

Case study gives a whole new meaning to "bedroom eyes."

Lindsey Fitzharris chats with Ars about her new book, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes.

Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.

Apple claims this is the most significant update ever for the iPad mini line.

Country music legend Willie Nelson endorses Mary Peltola for U.S. Senate:

"Vote for Mary Peltola for Senate. Thank you."

It's a celeb local-angle extravaganza in today's Flyover news roundup.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is in a close race that no one expected to be so competitive. Democrat Gina Hinojosa is within the margin of error in the polls, so Abbott is resorting to the typical foolishness Republicans resort to when faced with a possible loss: just outright...

From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is basically what his pricey induction stovetop is made from. (Fun fact: I went to grad school for ceramic engineering before dropping out after a semester to teach myself web design.)

Former England manager Graham Taylor’s direct style of football was associated with an appealing statistic: most goals came from moves involving three passes or fewer. Get the ball forward quickly. Bypass the midfield. Score. But the last three passes don’t tell you everything that created the goal. The possession that tired the opposition. The pressure […]

Tesla Canada has updated the Model 3 Premium Rear-Wheel Drive on its website with 584 km of range and a 0-100 km/h time of 5.2 seconds. Those are the exact specs of the Fremont-built Long Range RWD that Tesla sold in Canada two years ago.

The Shanghai-built version, the $39,490 CAD car Canadians haven’t been able to order since early October, is rated at 463 km and 6.2 seconds. The new numbers point to a different car from a different factory.

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What do we mean when we talk about news deserts? The term has become a shorthand for areas devoid of local news coverage. But a new essay from the Independent Journalism Atlas recalls that when Penny Abernathy popularized the term through her research, she used it to describe a more nuanced picture: To show what...

I prefer water at room temperature. Not for alleged health reasons — it’s just how I like it. It is my second favorite way to drink water.

My favorite way to drink water is hot and passed through ground coffee beans.

Here’s something I saw while out walking. I was instantly transported into an episode of The Rockford Files.

Siri identifies this is a 1975 or 76 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, based on the rectangular quad headlights, grille pattern and overall body style and paint. “The 1975 and 1976 Cadillac Coupe DeVille models were among the last of the truly full-sized American luxury coupes before Cadillac began downsizing its fleet in 1977.”

Lina Khan on how Mayor Mamdani is tackling the affordability crisis:

This administration has a willingness to confront powerful interests that are making life unaffordable and call out companies that are driving up prices or giving workers the short end of the stick.