2026-06-16

What Do Americans Spend on Housing?

WIRED surveyed readers on their housing costs. The answers paint a stark portrait of unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream. [...]

2026-06-16

Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary

An icon of Silicon Valley’s counterculture, Stewart Brand is confronting his final years in a home that embodies the self-sufficient, DIY ethos of his famous Whole Earth Catalog. [...]

2026-06-16

Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap

A new, AI-assisted model of insurance is quietly exploding in disaster-prone areas—and may be coming for FEMA too. Is it the answer to climate change, or a trap? [...]

2026-06-16

Insta360 Luna Ultra review: Let the gimbal camera wars begin

Insta360's first gimbal camera is a high-powered Osmo Pocket rival that you can actually buy. [...]

2026-06-16

The Ars Technica 2026 Reader Survey: Let your voice be heard!

Tell us how you read Ars, and what you'd like to see more (or less!) of on the front page. [...]

2026-06-16

Spotify and DoorDash are down for many right now —here's what we know about the outages

Both DoorDash and Spotify are experiencing issues right now, according to thousands of users —here's all the latest news. [...]

2026-06-16

In the age of AI-based threats, zero-trust is no longer enough

The emergence of AI-based threats means zero-trust is no longer strong enough to tackle these alone. [...]

2026-06-16

Microsoft forced to turn to AWS to boost GitHub cloud capacity following AI demand surge

GitHub's migration to Azure under strain as demand causes Microsoft to reach out to AWS for extra capacity. [...]

2026-06-16

Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era - and do some serious legacy clean up

And say hello to much better NTFS support. Linux creator Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 7.1. [...]