Month: March 2025

This 8 inch mini-laptop has an Intel N150 processor and 12GB RAM

A handful of Chinese PC makers have been selling mini-laptops with 8 inch displays and Intel Alder Lake-N processors for a few years. Now we’re starting to see new models with Intel Twin Lake chips. One of the first to arrive is the X-Plus Piccol…

A handful of Chinese PC makers have been selling mini-laptops with 8 inch displays and Intel Alder Lake-N processors for a few years. Now we’re starting to see new models with Intel Twin Lake chips. One of the first to arrive is the X-Plus Piccolo 2-in-1 mini-laptop with an Intel N150 processor, which sells for […]

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Last of Us S2 trailer features wintry war with the zombies

“By the time the sun comes up tomorrow, there’s a very good chance you’ll be dead.”

Pedro Pascal returns as Joel in The Last of Us S2.

HBO released a one-minute teaser of the hotly anticipated second season of The Last of Us—based on Naughty Dog's hugely popular video game franchise—during CES in January. We now have a full trailer, unveiled at SXSW after the footage leaked over the weekend, chock-full of Easter eggs for gaming fans of The Last of Us Part II.

(Spoilers for S1 below.)

The series takes place in the 20-year aftermath of a deadly outbreak of mutant fungus (Cordyceps) that turns humans into monstrous zombie-like creatures (the Infected, or Clickers). The world has become a series of separate totalitarian quarantine zones and independent settlements, with a thriving black market and a rebel militia known as the Fireflies making life complicated for the survivors. Joel (Pedro Pascal) is a hardened smuggler tasked with escorting the teenage Ellie (Bella Ramsay) across the devastated US, battling hostile forces and hordes of zombies, to a Fireflies unit outside the quarantine zone. Ellie is special: She is immune to the deadly fungus, and the hope is that her immunity holds the key to beating the disease.

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Yes, you get used to the grille: The 2025 BMW 430i Gran Coupe review

Class-leading infotainment and five-door fastback practicality.

Like life itself, BMWs seemed less complicated last century. You didn't need a crib sheet to understand the badge, and body styles were mostly just sedans, with a smattering of station wagons, two-door coupes, and convertibles. That was before it helped kickstart the SUV craze; now instead of 3, 5, 7, the series run 2–8 and X1 through X7. And don't get me started on individual model names. Like the 2025 430i xDrive Gran Coupe.

At first glance, if you're middle-aged like the average Ars reader, your brain probably says "this is a 3 Series sedan." After all, it has a pair of doors on either side. But there is no requirement for a coupe to only have two doors: the name is derived from the French "couper," meaning cut. And indeed, the roofline is cut down more than 2 inches lower than the actual 3 Series.

There's also a hatch at the rear, rather than a trunk lid. So, technically it's a fastback body style, which BMW has decided to call Gran Coupe the way it calls station wagons Tourings. Pedantic pigeonholing of body style will probably take a back seat to discussion of the front grille, though.

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Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination

Software developer plans to appeal after admitting to planting malicious code.

A 55-year-old software developer faces up to 10 years in prison for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employer's network, allegedly costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.

The US Department of Justice announced Friday that Davis Lu was convicted by a jury after "causing intentional damage to protected computers" reportedly owned by the Ohio- and Dublin-based power management company Eaton Corp.

Lu had worked at Eaton Corp. for about 11 years when he apparently became disgruntled by a corporate "realignment" in 2018 that "reduced his responsibilities," the DOJ said.

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Anzeige: Zero Trust in Microsoft 365 erfolgreich umsetzen

Klassische Security-Konzepte stoßen in hybriden IT-Umgebungen an ihre Grenzen. Zero Trust setzt auf strikte Verifikation und kontinuierliche Zugriffskontrolle. Dieser Workshop zeigt, wie dieses Konzept in M365 umgesetzt wird. (Golem Karrierewelt, Siche…

Klassische Security-Konzepte stoßen in hybriden IT-Umgebungen an ihre Grenzen. Zero Trust setzt auf strikte Verifikation und kontinuierliche Zugriffskontrolle. Dieser Workshop zeigt, wie dieses Konzept in M365 umgesetzt wird. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)

What’s behind the recent string of failures and delays at SpaceX?

SpaceX has long had a hard-charging culture. Is it now charging too hard?

It has been an uncharacteristically messy start to the year for the world's leading spaceflight company, SpaceX.

Let's start with the company's most recent delay. The latest launch date for a NASA mission to survey the sky and better understand the early evolution of the Universe comes Monday night. The launch window for this SPHEREx mission opened on February 28, but a series of problems with integrating the rocket and payloads have delayed the mission nearly two weeks.

Then there are the Falcon 9 first stage issues. Last week, a Falcon 9 rocket launched nearly two dozen Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. However, one of the rocket's nine engines suffered a fuel leak during ascent. Due to a lack of oxygen in the thinning atmosphere, the fuel leak did not preclude the satellites from reaching orbit. But when the first stage returned to Earth, it caught fire after landing on a droneship, toppling over. This followed a similar issue in August, when there was a fire in the engine compartment. After nearly three years without a Falcon 9 landing failure, SpaceX had two in six months.

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