Ars Technica Features

1. Six things I'll remember when I think about Tim Cook's version of Apple

   Under Cook, Apple became hugely successful, if not always surprising.

2. Investors lost billions on Trump’s memecoin. Another gala won’t fix that.

   If Dems take Congress, Trump may face reckoning for “pay-to-play” memecoin galas.

3. Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support

   How does HEVC implementation really work these days?

4. Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone

   Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.

5. What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?

   For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks to be a blind alley.

6. To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

   LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.

7. The Moon is already on Google Maps—did Artemis II really tell us anything new?

   "I think the biggest value here is the PR. I mean, it's getting the public excited."

8. Finally, Artemis delivers some exceptional, high-quality photos of the Moon

   The Moon, the Earth, and the Sun—oh what fun!

9. NASA's Moon ship and rocket seem to be working well, so what about the landers?

   Lori Glaze: "We have seen real commitment to try and do that... from both Blue and from SpaceX."

10. New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

    GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.

11. Launch day has arrived for NASA's Artemis II mission—here's what to expect

    "It’ll go when the engines light at T-0."

12. This is my third Orion launch, but it feels totally different

    The first two launches of Orion felt hollow, but NASA is finally on a better course.

13. No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations

    "It reminds me of sort of Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football."

14. Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs

    Great performance for the price, if you ignore the price of RAM, SSDs, and GPUs.

15. Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?

    "This is not physically impossible; it’s only a question of whether this is a rational thing."

16. A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it

    Katalyst Space Technologies must launch the Swift rescue mission by this summer.

17. Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?

    Ars speaks with a linguist about the ease with which Grace and Rocky communicate.

18. Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming. Here's how it works.

    On-device face scans and cross-platform age keys decrease privacy risks, but trust issues abound.

19. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Private and performant

    If you want to spend $1,300 on a phone, it might as well be this one.

20. A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites

    "I realized that if something went wrong up there, things might go very badly down here."