Buried in Section 6225 of the recently signed Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 is a small but mighty transparency provision: a unique national provider identifier (NPI) requirement. This ...

JDK 26 moves to general production availability. This short-term release is backed by six months of Premier-level support. Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, the latest standard Java release from Oracle, ...

The key to working at a place like Ars Technica is solid news judgment. I’m talking about the kind of news judgment that knows whether a pet peeve is merely a pet peeve or whether it is, instead, a ...

President Donald Trump has spent a lifetime talking himself out of tough spots. But in the war with Iran, his trusty technique of sowing confusion to postpone reckonings is beginning to fail. Ten days ...

In the two and a half days since Donald Trump unleashed a new war in the Middle East, the President and his Administration have come up with an astonishing array of different, even contradictory, ...

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If you are leasing a car, what’s the point of paying thousands of dollars due at lease signing? My contract says tax, title, fees and licensing — but then wouldn’t I have to pay that again at the end ...

Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...

Air Force duty identifier patches — the shoulder patches bearing abbreviated career field descriptions like MX, PA and PJ and relegated to the dust bin a year ago — are back. Chief of Staff Gen. Ken ...

Beginner’s guide to decentralized identity wallets: understand Self-sovereign identity blockchain, decentralized identifiers DIDs, verifiable credentials digital, and Web3 identity management, plus ...