The most unrealistic thing about Marvel movies isn't the superhero stuff. It's that people would be whispering "Hail Hydra" instead of shouting it while waving Hydra flags. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I started assembling this for the Ars article the other day, and now it's done. Mode65 with copper plate and base, featuring GMK Copper R2 keycaps. The accents contain 10% real copper because why not I guess.

You really should. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Teaming up with Republicans to pass the TikTok ban might end up being one of the Democratic Party's biggest blunders. They just handed MAGA an amazing propaganda tool. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Remarkable last words: Audience member: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years? Kirk: Too many Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years? Kirk: Counting or not counting gang members?

And I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that Trump is going to bat for Google today. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Should Google maybe just not appeal this case? May not make sense to spend the money on an appeal when the remedies are so modest.

What... what is this signage telling me to do?

For the first time, this feels like a foldable phone you'd want to carry around, but whether or not you can justify the $1,999 price tag is another matter entirely.

🧵CONDE NAST SQUID GAMES: Today Conde Nast held a company-wide meeting. Nearly a week in advance, our members submitted a list of questions about the future of the company, RTO policies, and enforcement and staffing; we received no answers.

The "Pizza Chef" in Death Stranding 2 is an Asian man who lives in Australia and dresses like Mario. Makes sense.

I got a keyboard made of forged carbon fiber, which is neat. I got a carbon fiber splinter assembling it, which is not as neat.

If anyone out there has a Pixel 6a hit by the battery downgrade, please let me know how bad it is. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

I just turned on a PC that's been off since February. Windows 11 has been updating and restarting for, no joke, over an hour now. It's sometimes hard to believe this is how a major operating system works in this, the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-five.

Andor proves that The Force is the worst part of Star Wars.

Boop65 reassembled with 62g Zealios and Zeal stabilizers. Keycaps are GMK Nautilus. I love the yellow e-coating on this board.

I'm rebuilding an old keyboard and was amused to find I "band-aid modded" it. That's when you cut up band-aids to use as stabilizer pads. You can just buy sheets of adhesive stabilizer pads now.

Probably a 10% chance they don't let me into I/O today 😂

The nature of my job means I can never download music from YouTube Music. The device limit is silly.

Razr > Z Flip

After some troubleshooting, I finally have my Hibi Chopper assembled. This is a cute little 40% keyboard. The kit is only about $100, excluding potential tariffs (it's from Australia). It's pretty light and has a muted sound profile because the case is silicone. Neat.

tldr: Hundreds of rich techbros are excited to freely promote technofascism and misogyny as long as the evidence is automatically deleted. Honestly pretty pathetic. Have the courage to say what you believe in the open or just accept your ideas are unpopular. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Chrome on the chopping block as Google’s search antitrust trial moves forward

Not a new keyboard, but some new other stuff. I've had this red Zoom65 for a while, just waiting on the right keyset. This is GMK Jamon, which is obviously very red. Jamon is a little thematically confusing with ham/bacon and egg novelties, but it's fun and has great colors.

This might be the best photo I've ever taken of phones.

Google Pixel 9a review: All the phone you need My first phone review at Ars.

Gemini is an increasingly good chatbot, but it’s still a bad assistant

It is new OLD keyboard day. I'm rebuilding one of my favorites to hopefully make it a bit more stable. I didn't realize when I first put it together a while back how bouncy it would be. This warrants different switches and stabilizers, but that means full disassembly. 🧵

It is new keyboard day. This is a Pavlov, a pretty simple, low-cost 65% kit. Just a few screws in the entire build with tadpole mounting.

Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

My article title got a modest laugh on Colbert. youtu.be/YSYWzROwlDA?...

It is new keyboard day. This is a Command 65 R2, which, yes, is supposed to look like a C64 keyboard. It's a pretty resilient plastic kit, so it comes partially assembled. You just have to take it apart and reassemble with stabilizers, switches, etc.

Billionaires man... arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

Me: Okay, time to turn off the PC. Microsoft: No problem, your fans are just gonna be at 100% for 45 minutes or so. NBD.

News: I have hung up my freelancing spurs for a new job at @arstechnica.com as a senior tech reporter. I'm going to be covering Google, AI, phones, and more. See ya there.

Working on some S25 content. Really happy with this photo.

I just wanted the start a timer, not have a conversation with a robot.

I thought for sure this was AI when I saw the images floating around, but nope. And this was no accident. Look at that racist energy in the wind up! He was so excited to give 'em the Sieg Heil.

OnePlus phones are getting better again after slumping over the last few years. hothardware.com/reviews/onep...

So, Google just never turned person generation on in Pixel Studio. It's been months since this came back to the web AI tools.

Huh, so the YouTube Music algorithm seems more accurate than usual today.

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

This keyboard packaging is also fancier than expected.

The packaging for these keyboard stabilizers is shockingly nice.

Laptops don't have enough corners when you think about it hothardware.com/reviews/hp-o...