Top 10 Ars Technica — Latest — March 25, 2026

An anti-vaccine ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stormed off a CDC advisory panel, resigning in a huff after a heated dispute, further exposing fractures in public health governance.

The final autopsy of the 2025 Iberian blackout pins blame squarely on Spain's energy policies, arguing that political choices left the grid dangerously vulnerable to a single cascade failure.

Newly purchased Vizio televisions now demand users log into a Walmart account just to access smart features, a move that treats buyers as data sources rather than customers.

A Mozilla developer launched what they call 'Stack Overflow for agents,' a platform designed to fix coding AI's biggest weakness: its inability to context-switch between real-world codebases.

OpenAI announced plans to shut down Sora, its text-to-video generator, admitting the product couldn't justify its enormous computational costs or overcome persistent quality issues.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is swapping its top leadership just as battles over ICE surveillance and AI civil rights reach a boiling point, raising questions about continuity in the fight.

The FCC imposed an unprecedented ban on all foreign-manufactured routers, effectively gutting the supply chain for brands like TP-Link and D-Link and forcing American buyers to rely on pricier domestic alternatives.

Apple released iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 26.4, a mid-cycle update packed with minor interface tweaks that collectively improve workflow but introduce no headline feature.

NASA killed its long-planned lunar space station, the Gateway, redirecting all resources toward a direct-to-Moon base strategy that prioritizes speed over orbital infrastructure.

An anti-vaccine ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stormed off a CDC advisory panel, resigning in a huff after a heated dispute, further exposing fractures in public health governance.

The final autopsy of the 2025 Iberian blackout pins blame squarely on Spain's energy policies, arguing that political choices left the grid dangerously vulnerable to a single cascade failure.

Newly purchased Vizio televisions now demand users log into a Walmart account just to access smart features, a move that treats buyers as data sources rather than customers.

A Mozilla developer launched what they call 'Stack Overflow for agents,' a platform designed to fix coding AI's biggest weakness: its inability to context-switch between real-world codebases.

OpenAI announced plans to shut down Sora, its text-to-video generator, admitting the product couldn't justify its enormous computational costs or overcome persistent quality issues.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is swapping its top leadership just as battles over ICE surveillance and AI civil rights reach a boiling point, raising questions about continuity in the fight.

The FCC imposed an unprecedented ban on all foreign-manufactured routers, effectively gutting the supply chain for brands like TP-Link and D-Link and forcing American buyers to rely on pricier domestic alternatives.

Apple released iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 26.4, a mid-cycle update packed with minor interface tweaks that collectively improve workflow but introduce no headline feature.

NASA killed its long-planned lunar space station, the Gateway, redirecting all resources toward a direct-to-Moon base strategy that prioritizes speed over orbital infrastructure.