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Oil at $40 a barrel. It sounds almost quaint in an era when crude has spent most of the past five years comfortably above $60. But a growing chorus of analysts, fund managers...

A Global Copper Shortage Could Make Your Next PC or Phone Significantly More Expensive

The next price shock for consumer electronics might not come from tariffs or chip shortages. It could come from the ground itself.A tightening global copper supply is...

AT&T Billed a Customer $6,196 for Equipment He Already Returned. It Took a Journalist to Fix It.

A Pennsylvania man spent months trying to get AT&T to reverse a $6,196 charge for equipment he'd already returned. The carrier wouldn't budge. Then a reporter from Ars Techni...

The Invisible Saboteur: How Unicode Tricks Are Poisoning Open-Source Code From the Inside Out

Somewhere in the guts of a GitHub repository, a line of code looks perfectly normal. A developer reviews it, approves the pull request, and merges it into a project used by t...

Washington’s Quiet Gamble: Temporarily Lifting Russian Oil Sanctions to Squeeze Iran and Reshape Global Energy Politics

The Trump administration is weighing a move that would have been unthinkable just months ago: temporarily easing sanctions on Russian oil to flood global markets with cheap c...

The $25 Oil Shock Nobody’s Pricing In: How a Strait of Hormuz Crisis Could Blow Up the Global Economy

A narrow waterway separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula carries roughly one-fifth of the world's daily oil supply. About 21 million barrels pass through the Strait of Ho...

The Memory Tax: Why Your Next PC Build Could Cost Hundreds More Through 2027

The price of memory isn't coming down anytime soon. And for anyone planning a PC build, a server upgrade, or a data center expansion in the next two years, that reality is ab...

Decoding the US Gas Price Map: Why Fuel Costs Vary Drastically Across State Lines

Gasoline prices across the United States present a fractured picture, with the cost of filling up a tank varying wildly depending on state lines. For American drivers checkin...

How Middle East Tensions and Natural Gas Prices Threaten the AI Data Center Boom

Global energy markets remain on edge as geopolitical friction in the Middle East, particularly involving Iran, threatens to disrupt international oil and gas supply chains. T...

OnePlus, Oppo to Raise Smartphone Prices Amid Surging RAM Costs

Smartphone manufacturers often face challenges from fluctuating component prices, and recent developments highlight how these shifts can directly affect consumer costs. Reports...

PC Makers Face Steep RAM and SSD Price Hikes While Apple Stays Largely Unscathed

Memory and storage costs are surging across the PC industry, and the ripple effects are about to hit consumers hard. But Apple? Mostly insulated. The divergence comes down to...

$100 Oil Would Wreck the Economy: What a U.S.-Iran War Means for Markets, Inflation, and Growth

Oil at $100 a barrel. That's the scenario keeping economists and portfolio managers up at night as tensions between the United States and Iran threaten to spill into outright...

Valve Says the Steam Machine Is Still Coming in 2026 — Here’s What We Know

Valve isn't backing away from the Steam Machine. Despite months of relative silence that had some in the gaming hardware space wondering if the project had quietly died, the...

U.S. Draft Rules on AI Chip Exports Would Require Permits and Reshape Global Trade

The Biden administration's AI chip export framework, first proposed in January 2025, is getting a second life under Trump — and it's stricter than many in the semiconductor i...

Global Energy Markets: Geopolitics, Production Shifts, and the Decarbonization Challenge

Global energy markets are currently operating under intense pressure from conflicting forces. On one side, geopolitical instability threatens supply lines, while on the other...

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