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ArsTechnica: Why is my dog like this? Current DNA tests won’t explain it to you.

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:08:58 -0600

Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study.

A team of geneticists recently found no connection between simple genetic variants and behavioral traits in more than 3,200 dogs, even though previous studies suggested that hundreds of genes might predict aspects of a dog’s behavior and personality. That’s despite the popularity of at-home genetic tests that claim they can tell you whether your dog’s genes contain the recipe for anxiety or a fondness for cuddles.

ArsTechnica: A massive, Chinese-backed port could push the Amazon Rainforest over the edge

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:30:35 -0600

CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-sized screen.

This “Operations Productivity Dashboard” instantaneously displays a battery of data: vehicle locations, shipping times, entry times, loading data, unloading data, efficiency statistics.

Most striking, though, are the bold lines arcing over the dashboard’s deep-blue Pacific—digital streaks illustrating the routes that lead thousands of miles across the ocean, from this unassuming city, to Asia’s biggest ports.

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ArsTechnica: Streaming service makes rare decision to lower its monthly fees

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:56:51 -0600

Somewhere, a pig is catching some sweet air.

In a rare move for a streaming service, Fubo announced today that it’s lowering the prices for some of its subscription plans.

Fubo is a sports-focused vMVPD (virtual multichannel video programming distributor, or a company that enables people to watch traditional TV channels live over the Internet). Disney closed its Read full article

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ArsTechnica: Netflix’s $72B WB acquisition confounds the future of movie theaters, streaming

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:49:43 -0600

The bidding war is over, and Netflix has been declared the winner.

After flirting with notes.

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ArsTechnica: Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:44:18 -0600

The Black Death ravaged medieval Western Europe, ultimately wiping out roughly one-third of the population. Scientists have identified the bacterium responsible and its likely origins, but certain specifics of how and why it spread to Europe are less clear. According to the second plague pandemic. The first, known as the Justinian Plague, broke out about 541 CE and quickly spread across Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. (The Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I, for whom the pandemic is named, actually survived the disease.) There continued to be outbreaks of the plague over the next 300 years, although the disease gradually became less virulent and died out. Or so it seemed.