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A bunch of people have dunked on this already, but I want to add: one big reason why this cost estimate isn't even close to correct is that, at this moment, we have no idea how to transfer fuel between vehicles in space. It has never been done and there are massive engineering challenges. It's...

I don’t agree with the other comments saying this is a massive security risk. It doesn’t seem to be a backdoor at all: the NFC just wakes up the phone and presumably passes it the SSID/password of the WiFi network in the Apple Store, and from there it connects to the normal Apple update service...

Usually these sov-cit dumbasses are just hilarious— oh, you think the court doesn't have jurisdiction over you? Let's see what the court thinks of that— but when they're actually injuring and killing other people it's a different story. Keep your whackjobbery to yourself.

I hate Musk, but he is absolutely correct here and online platforms shouldn't give an inch to this kind of nonsense. Paying somebody to send traffic their way is absurd and completely antithetical to the way the internet works. (Not to mention that this whole thing is a shakedown by publishing...

Privatized medicine delenda est.

I hate this trend that "every app needs to be every other app", i.e. whenever a hot new format appears, every legacy social platform has to rush to cram their own half-baked version into their app, usually baiting people into using it with appalling dark patterns. I get that all these companies...

These are Tesla fans posting this footage, and being constantly effusive about how good the FSD is even right after it almost just killed them. These videos should be considered a floor on the badness of FSD with the true amount almost certainly higher.

"Not mathematically possible"? Based on the number of accidents that would've happened (if not for driver intervention) divided by the number of minutes of footage, this thing is a worse driver than me by several orders of magnitude.

I mean, duh? Back when we were all optimistic about the effects of the Internet on society (oh how long ago that seems now), everyone just took it as a given that trying to suppress the spread of information online was impossible. "Information wants to be free" and "The Internet interprets...

Before subscribing, I was browsing Ars with uBlock Origin turned on. Now that I'm subscribed and presumably all the ads and trackers are gone, should I whitelist you? Is there any benefit to you to do so?

Didn't it turn out that these guys were buying indirectly from ISIS in most cases? I tell ya, if you can't trust ISIS, who can you trust?

But... but... Bitcoin forums told me it was a stable store of value totally uncorrelated with the stock market, and that it would be perfect in times of global unrest! Surely you're not implying Bitcoin boosters have no frickin' clue what they're talking about?

Their strategy was totally backwards. The Chinese upstarts like OnePlus have it right: you start with a decent device at a really good price to build loyalty, then gradually move your way upmarket. Breaking into the high end of the market as a newcomer is impossible: Apple and Samsung have that...

Yes, we should definitely be using $10 million smart bombs attached to the $100 million aircraft that needs a week of maintenance between sorties to do that instead.

A new messaging service from Google? Must be a day ending in 'y'.

The 10.2" iPad at Best Buy is $279, not $249. Is it a typo or did I just miss my chance?

10.2" iPad deal already gone, although apparently WalMart and Best Buy are going to have the same deal later on in the week.

I still don't understand what DoH has to do with ISPs knowing your browsing activity. Even if they can't see your DNS requests, they can see what IP address you're ultimately going to (they have to, to route your packets), and then it's easy to do a reverse lookup to the website name. DoH may...

The problem with this theory is that I’ve been hearing it since like 2014. It was maybe plausible for a year or two but at some point it would’ve caught up to them. No, 50-100% growth for 5+ years is genuine.

I don't think this is true? If you use an encrypted DNS provider, your ISP can't see that you requested "pornhub.com", but they can see you're going to 66.254.114.41... which they know is pornhub.com. It can't possibly work any other way, they still have to route your packets. DOH might be a...