Ars Technica News for Engineers and Tech Enthusiasts

Ars Technica was launched in 1998 by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes as a space where engineers, coders, and hard-core enthusiasts could find news that respected their intelligence.
From the start it rejected shallow churn, instead publishing 5 000-word CPU micro-architecture briefs, line-by-line Linux kernel diffs, and forensic GPU teardowns that treat readers like fellow engineers rather than casual shoppers.
Condé Nast acquired the site in 2008, yet the newsroom retained its autonomy, keeping the beige-and-black design ethos and the Latin tagline “Art of Technology.”
Today its staff physicists, former network architects, and defunct-astronaut hopefuls explain quantum supremacy papers, dissect U.S. spectrum auctions, benchmark every new console, and still find time to live-blog Supreme Court tech policy arguments.
The result is a community whose comment threads read like peer-review sessions: voltage curves are debated, errata are crowdsourced overnight, and authors routinely append “Update” paragraphs that credit readers for spotting a mis-stated opcode.