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Ars Technica, which translates to the "art of technology," is a website dedicated to technology news and information. Founded in 1998 by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes, it covers a wide range of topics including computer hardware and software, scientific advancements, technology policies, and video games. The site features contributions from many writers who hold advanced degrees, with some affiliated with research institutions. The writing style on Ars Technica is more relaxed compared to traditional academic journals, making it accessible to a broader audience.

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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

2 days ago | arstechnica.com | Benj Edwards

Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world." On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT.
The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

3 days ago | arstechnica.com | Benj Edwards

Tales from the age of noise As thousands of applications flood job posts, 'hiring slop' is kicking off an AI arms race. Benj Edwards – Jun 24, 2025 1:25 pm | Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, with LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last year, according to new data reported by The New York Times. Due to AI, the traditional hiring process has become overwhelmed with automated noise.
UK looking to loosen Google’s control of its search engine

3 days ago | arstechnica.com | Suzi Ring |Tim Bradshaw

Tech giant slams plan as "punitive" and risk to economic growth. The UK’s competition regulator is proposing to loosen Google’s control of its search engine in the first application of Britain’s tough new digital market rules.
A European spacecraft company flies its vehicle, then loses it after reentry

3 days ago | arstechnica.com | Eric Berger

"This partial success reflects both ambition and the inherent risks of innovation." Eric Berger – Jun 24, 2025 8:32 am | A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week with a test flight that saw its "Mission Possible" vehicle power up and fly successfully in orbit before making a controlled reentry into Earth's atmosphere.
Tuesday Telescope: A new champion enters the ring

3 days ago | arstechnica.com | Eric Berger

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder.
Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux

4 days ago | arstechnica.com | Benj Edwards

It's funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be. Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built with Rust and simply called "Edit," works on Windows, macOS, and—in a twist that would have seemed unlikely three decades ago—Linux.
Tesla launches robotaxi service in Austin

4 days ago | arstechnica.com | Rafe Uddin |Stephen Morris |Kana Inagaki

Self-driving technology on which Elon Musk has staked future of his company debuts in Texas. Tesla’s robotaxi service, touted by Elon Musk as the future of his flagging electric-car maker, launched in the company’s home city of Austin, Texas, on Sunday with about 10 vehicles and a human safety driver on board amid regulatory scrutiny of its self-driving technology.
Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid, but now it’s running in backup mode

6 days ago | arstechnica.com | Stephen Clark

Engineers switched to a backup fuel line less than a quarter of the way through Psyche's mission. A NASA spacecraft bound for an unexplored metal-rich asteroid has reignited its plasma thrusters, continuing its cruise deeper into the Solar System after switching to a backup fuel line. The $1.4 billion Psyche mission, built to explore an asteroid with the same name, has four electric thrusters fueled by xenon gas.
How a data center company uses stranded renewable energy

6 days ago | arstechnica.com | Arcelia Martin

Some companies are paying low rates for renewable energy that would otherwise go unused. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. John Belizaire says he has a secret hiding in plain sight.
Microsoft lays out its path to useful quantum computing

1 week ago | arstechnica.com | John Timmer

Its platform needs error correction that works with different hardware. John Timmer – Jun 20, 2025 2:52 pm | On Thursday, Microsoft's Azure Quantum group announced that it has settled on a plan for getting error correction on quantum computers. While the company pursues its own hardware efforts, the Azure team is a platform provider that currently gives access to several distinct types of hardware qubits.