- + What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team?—Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards) In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the ...
- + The nature of consciousness, and how to enjoy it while you can—Enlarge (credit: SEAN GLADWELL ) Unraveling how consciousness arises out of particular configurations of organic matter is a quest t...
- + “Outrageously” priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care—Enlarge / Packaging for Wegovy, manufactured by Novo Nordisk, is seen in this illustration photo. (credit: Getty | Jakub Porzycki ) ...
- + The Apple TV is coming for the Raspberry Pi’s retro emulation box crown—Enlarge / The RetroArch app installed in tvOS. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Apple’s initial pitch for the tvOS and the Apple TV as i...
- + OpenAI will use Reddit posts to train ChatGPT under new deal—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) Stuff posted on Reddit is getting incorporated into ChatGPT, Reddit and OpenAI announced on Thursday. The...
- + Cats playing with robots proves a winning combo in novel art installation—Enlarge / A kitty named Clover prepares to play with a robot arm in the Cat Royale "multi-species" science/art installation . (credit: Blast Theory...
- + Leaks from Valve’s Deadlock look like a pressed sandwich of every game around—Enlarge / Valve has its own canon of games full of artifacts and concepts worth emulating, as seen in a 2018 tour of its offices. (credit: Sam Mach...
- + “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups—Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images ) Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud's biggest blund...
- + Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules—Enlarge (credit: Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images ) The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will require some financial instit...
- + Using vague language about scientific facts misleads readers—Enlarge Anyone can do a simple experiment. Navigate to a search engine that offers suggested completions for what you type, and star...
- + Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training—Enlarge (credit: Tim Robberts | DigitalVision ) After launching Slack AI in February, Slack appears to be digging its heels in, de...
- + Twitter URLs redirect to x.com as Musk gets closer to killing the Twitter name—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev) Twitter.com links are now redirecting to the x.com domain as Elon Musk gets close...
- + How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time—Enlarge / "N-tel (64) Inside" (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) In recent years, we've reported on multiple efforts to revers...
- + Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog—Enlarge / The Sony Music letter expressly prohibits artificial intelligence developers from using its music — which includes artists such as Beyonc...
- + How I upgraded my water heater and discovered how bad smart home security can be—Enlarge / This is essentially the kind of water heater the author has hooked up, minus the Wi-Fi module that led him down a rabbit hole. Also, not ...
- + Rocket Report: Starship stacked; Georgia shuts the door on Spaceport Camden—Enlarge / On Wednesday, SpaceX fully stacked the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage for the mega-rocket's next test flight from South Tex...
- + Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | the-lightwriter) An Arizona woman has been accused of helping generate millions of dollars for North ...
- + Ultra-spicy One Chip Challenge chip contributed to teen’s death, report says—Enlarge (credit: Sarah Dussault/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images ) An autopsy report of a Massachusetts teen who t...
- + Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban—Enlarge / Screenshot from the documentary Who Is Bobby Kennedy? (credit: whoisbobbykennedy.com ) In a lawsuit that seems determi...
- + Europe is uncertain whether its ambitious Mercury probe can reach the planet—An artist's rendering of the BepiColombo mission, a joint ESA/JAXA project, which will take two spacecraft to the harsh environment of Mercury. (cred...
- + It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC—Enlarge (credit: Getty | Spencer Platt ) The North Carolina State Senate on Wednesday voted 30–15, along party lines, in favor of a ...
- + Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results—Enlarge / Google continues to change what it means to be the "Google" search engine. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Google I/O has come an...
- + Pedego Moto review: Fast and furious fun for $4,000—Enlarge / The Pedego Moto has serious moped energy. (credit: Eric Bangeman) I'm not a fat-tire bike guy. My tire tastes run toward ...
- + Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images) A federal judge ruled yesterday that Tesla must face a lawsuit alleging that it committe...
- + Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running—Enlarge (credit: The Serial Code/YouTube) It's amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how pe...
- + How do you pronounce “hockey”? US players say it with “fake Canadian” accent.—Enlarge (credit: Tommy Gilligan/USMA PAO/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) University of Rochester linguist Andrew Bray started out studying the evo...
- + Bumble apologizes for ads shaming women into sex—Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto ) For the past decade, the dating app Bumble has claimed to be all about empoweri...
- + Thunderbolt Share simplifies dual-PC workloads—but requires new hardware—Enlarge (credit: Intel) Intel this week announced new Thunderbolt software made for connecting two PCs. Thunderbolt Share will requir...
- + Sony listing hints at native, upscaled PS2 emulation on the PS5—Enlarge / Identical cousins. (credit: Spellblade91 / Reddit ) Years ago, Sony started making a select handful of "PlayStation 2 C...
- + Mixup of drinking and irrigation water sparks dangerous outbreak in children—Enlarge / A child cools off under a water sprinkler. (credit: Getty | JASON SOUTH ) In 1989, a city in Utah upgraded its drinking...
- + Concerns over addicted kids spur probe into Meta and its use of dark patterns—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chesnot ) Brussels has opened an in-depth probe into Meta over concerns it is failing to do enough to...
- + Daily Telescope: I spy, with my little eye, the ISS—Enlarge / The International Space Station as seen from 69 km away. (credit: HEO on X) Welcome to the Daily Telescope . There is a ...
- + BreachForums, an online bazaar for stolen data, seized by FBI—Enlarge / The front page of BreachForums. The FBI and law enforcement partners worldwide have seized BreachForums, a website that ...
- + Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora—Enlarge / Still images taken from videos generated by Google Veo. (credit: Google / Benj Edwards) On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Go...
- + MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says—Enlarge (credit: Oleksandr Shatyrov | iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus ) Within approximately 12 seconds, two highly educated br...
- + RealVNC is dropping its “Home” plan and barely noting its free “Lite” option—Enlarge (credit: RealVNC) RealVNC will soon end its "Home" plan that's free to use for up to three users and five devices. If you sti...
- + Netflix gets the NFL: Three-year deal starts this season on Christmas—Enlarge / The San Francisco 49ers' star quarterback Brock Purdy celebrates during a blowout 35-7 win over the Tom Brady-led Buccaneers. (credit: Ge...
- + Cable TV providers ruined cable—now they’re coming for streaming—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) In an ironic twist, cable TV and Internet provider Comcast has announced that it, too, will sell a bundle o...
- + DOJ says Boeing faces criminal charge for violating deal over 737 Max crashes—Enlarge / Relatives hold a poster with faces of the victims of Ethiopia flight 302 outside a courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, on January 26, 2023. ...
- + Android 15 gets “Private Space,” theft detection, and AV1 support—Enlarge / The Android 15 logo. This is "Android V," if you can't tell from the logo. (credit: Google) Google's I/O conference is s...
- + Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach—Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto ) Infrastructure used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system ...
- + SSH backdoor has infected 400,000 Linux servers over 15 years and keeps on spreading—Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto ) Infrastructure used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system ...
- + Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar”—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell conne...
- + Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton—Enlarge / John Milton citing Spenser on the recent history of Ireland in his 1587 edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles . Note Milton's italic...
- + VMware Fusion, Workstation now free for home use, subscription-only for businesses—Enlarge (credit: VMware) Broadcom's acquisition of VMware last year has led to widespread upheaval at the company, including layoffs...
- + Could your car power your home? GM makes it a reality in EV truck demo.—Enlarge / GM used a Silverado EV to power a 10,000-square-foot house as a demo of its Home Energy system. (credit: General Motors) ...
- + Smashing into an asteroid shows researchers how to better protect Earth—Enlarge / Riding atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft sets off to collide with an asteroid i...
- + Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console—Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards ) Ars Technica AI Reporter and tech historian Benj Edwards has co-written a book on the Virtual Boy wi...
- + Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI six months after Altman ouster—Enlarge / An image Illya Sutskever tweeted with this OpenAI resignation announcement. From left to right: New OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki...
- + Weight loss from Wegovy sustained for up to four years, trial shows—Enlarge / Wegovy is an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. (credit: Getty | Michael Siluk ) ...
- + “Fire and blood” come to Westeros in new House of the Dragon S2 trailer—House of the Dragon returns to HBO Max for an action-packed second season next month. The second season of House of the Dragon premieres in abo...
- + Sauron’s dark rise is front and center in The Rings of Power S2 teaser—Charlie Vicker's Sauron is front and center in the teaser for S2 of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power . Amazon's Prime Video made a major inv...
- + Downranking won’t stop Google’s deepfake porn problem, victims say—Enlarge (credit: imaginima | E+ ) After backlash over Google's search engine becoming the primary traffic source for deepfake porn w...
- + 2023 temperatures were warmest we’ve seen for at least 2,000 years—Enlarge / Top: a look through the past 2,000 years of summertime temperatures, showing that 2023 is considerably warmer than anything earlier. Bot...
- + Android’s AI era includes eavesdropping on phone calls, warning you about scams—The "ask this PDF" feature. Google's " code red " demands that AI be part of every single Google p...
- + Boeing is troubleshooting a small helium leak on the Starliner spacecraft—Enlarge / A view looking down at Boeing's Starliner spacecraft and United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket inside the Vertical Integration Facility...
- + AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | AaronP/Bauer-Griffin ) The US government has provided more detail on how a former AT&T executive...
- + Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype—Enlarge / A video still of Project Astra demo at the Google I/O conference keynote in Mountain View on May 14, 2024. (credit: Google) ...
- + Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with AI Overviews—Enlarge / "Google will do the Googling for you," says firm's search chief. (credit: Google) Search is still important to Google, bu...
- + Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with improved AI options—Enlarge / You asked for the best, and this is the Gemini AI's answer. (credit: Google) Search is still important to Google, but soo...
- + AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails—AI in Gmail summarizes recent emails. [credit: Google ] ...
- + $460, 5,471-piece Lego Barad-dûr set comes for LOTR fans’ wallets in June—Lego Barad-dúr silently surveils a living room. [credit: Lego ] ...
- + $460, 5,471-piece Lego Barad-Dûr set comes for LOTR fans’ wallets in June—Lego Barad-Dúr silently surveils a living room. [credit: Lego ] ...
- + 5,471-piece Lego Barad-Dûr set will turn its watchful Eye to us in June—Lego Barad-Dúr silently surveils a living room. [credit: Lego ] ...
- + Feds probe Waymo driverless cars hitting parked cars, drifting into traffic—Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in downtown San Francisco on Bush and Sansome Streets as it drives and transports passengers. (credit: JasonDoi...
- + Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) A study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to a ...
- + The hunt for rare bitcoin is nearing an end—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Andriy Onufriyenko) Billy Restey is a digital artist who runs a studio in Seattle. But after hours, h...
- + Raw-milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus—Enlarge / A glass of fresh raw milk in the hand of a farmer. (credit: Getty | Pierre Crom ) To drink raw milk at any time is to fl...
- + Raw milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus—Enlarge / A glass of fresh raw milk in the hand of a farmer. (credit: Getty | Pierre Crom ) To drink raw milk at any time is to fl...
- + Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches—Enlarge / The business end of the Vulcan rocket performed flawlessly during its debut launch in January 2024. (credit: United Launch Alliance) ...
- + Disarmingly lifelike: ChatGPT-4o will laugh at your jokes and your dumb hat—Enlarge / Oh you silly, silly human. Why are you so silly, you silly human? (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) At this point, a...
- + Apple releases iOS 17.5, macOS 14.5, and other updates as new iPads launch—Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple has released the latest updates for virtually all of its actively supported devices today. Most include...
- + Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI employee William Fedus confirmed on X that a mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot ...
- + M4 iPad Pro review: Well, now you’re just showing off—Enlarge / The 2024, M4-equipped 13-inch iPad Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) The new iPad Pro is a technical marvel, with one of the bes...
- + M2 iPad Air review: The everything iPad—The new 13-inch iPad Air with the Apple M2 processor inside. [credit: Andrew Cunningham ...
- + Black Basta ransomware group is imperiling critical infrastructure, groups warn—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal agencies, health care associations, and security researchers are warning that a ransomware gro...
- + Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Two weeks ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk enacted widespread layoffs throughout the company , inc...
- + AT&T loses key ruling in attempt to escape Carrier-of-Last-Resort obligation—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Joe Raedle ) AT&T's application to end its landline phone obligations in California is likely to ...
- + Krysten Ritter has lost her memories in trailer for Orphan Black: Echoes—Krysten Ritter stars as Lucy in Orphan Black: Echoes , which picks up in 2052, 37 years after the original series ended. Fans of the dystopian sc...
- + Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) On Monday, OpenAI debuted GPT-4o (o for "omni"), a major new AI model that can ostensibly converse...
- + Warner Bros. gives Adult Swim games back to their creators rather than kill them—Enlarge / Timely art from the game Traverser , soon to be published by developer Gatling Goat Studios. (credit: Gatling Goat Studios/Adult Swim Ga...
- + Elon Musk’s X dodges Australian order to remove church stabbing video—Enlarge (credit: Apu Gomes / Stringer | Getty Images News ) An Australian federal court sided with Elon Musk on Monday, rejecting ...
- + Beethoven likely didn’t die from lead poisoning, new hair analysis reveals—Enlarge / Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820. Toxocology analysis of the composer's locks of hair showed high levels of lead. (cred...
- + Beethoven likely didn’t die from lead poisoning, new DNA analysis reveals—Enlarge / Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820. Toxocology analysis of the composer's locks of hair showed high levels of lead. (cred...
- + Game dev says contract barring “subjective negative reviews” was a mistake—Enlarge / Artist's conception of NetEase using a legal contract to try to stop a wave of negative reviews of its closed alpha. (credit: NetEase) ...
- + Biden set to levy 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs this week—Enlarge / New energy vehicles are being loaded into containers for export at Taicang Port and Taicang International Terminal in Suzhou, Jiangsu Pro...
- + Pixel 8a review—The best deal in smartphones—The Pixel 8a and its speedy 120 Hz display. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] ...
- + Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams—Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Brussels is set to issue new antitrust charges against Microsoft over concerns that the software giant is...
- + The 2025 Aston Martin Vantage gets a bold new body and big power boost—Enlarge / First revealed in 2017, the current Aston Martin Vantage has just had a styling and engineering overhaul. (credit: Aston Martin) ...
- + In the race for space metals, companies hope to cash in—Enlarge / An illustration depicts a NASA spacecraft approaching the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. Though there are no plans to mine Psyche, such ast...
- + Forget aerobars: Ars tries out an entire aerobike—Enlarge / The Velomobile Bülk, with its hood in place. Note the hood has an anti-fog covering on the visor (which is flipped up). The two bumps nea...
- + Monster galactic outflow powered by exploding stars—Enlarge / All galaxies have large amounts of gas that influence their star-formation rates. (credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and J. Lee (NOIRLab) ) ...
- + NOAA says “extreme” solar storm will persist through the weekend—Enlarge / Pink lights appear in the sky above College Station, Texas. (credit: ZoeAnn Bailey) After a night of stunning auroras acr...
- + NOAA says ‘extreme’ Solar storm will persist through the weekend—Enlarge / Pink lights appear in the sky above College Station, Texas. (credit: ZoeAnn Bailey) After a night of stunning auroras acr...
- + Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead?—Enlarge / Galaxy rotation has long perplexed scientists. (credit: NASA/James Webb Telescope ) One of the biggest mysteries in ast...
- + Cryptmaster is a dark, ridiculous RPG test of your typing and guessing skills—Enlarge / Sometimes you gotta get your nose in there to remember the distinct aroma of 1980s RPG classics. (credit: Akupara Games) ...
- + How the Moon got a makeover—Enlarge (credit: NASA Goddard/ASU ) Our Moon may appear to shine peacefully in the night sky, but billions of years ago, it was gi...
- + NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket—Enlarge / The Space Launch System rocket lifts off on the Artemis I mission. (credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls ) NASA is looking for ways...
- + More children gain hearing as gene therapy for profound deafness advances—Enlarge / Opal Sandy (center), who was born completely deaf because of a rare genetic condition, can now hear unaided for the first time after rece...
- + Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says—Enlarge (credit: Apu Gomes / Stringer | Getty Images News ) A US district judge William Alsup has dismissed Elon Musk's X Corp's l...
- + How you can make cold-brew coffee in under 3 minutes using ultrasound—Enlarge / UNSW Sydney engineers developed a new way to make cold brew coffee in under three minutes without sacrificing taste. (credit: University...
- + Big Three carriers pay $10M to settle claims of false “unlimited” advertising—Enlarge (credit: Verizon) T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T will pay a combined $10.2 million in a settlement with US states that alleg...
- + Exploration-focused training lets robotics AI immediately handle new tasks—Enlarge (credit: boonchai wedmakawand) Reinforcement-learning algorithms in systems like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini can work wonders,...
- + OpenAI revs up plans for web search, but denies report of an imminent launch—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) OpenAI is eventually coming for the most popular website on the Internet: Google Sea...
- + Studio: Takedown notice for 15-year-old fan-made Hunt for Gollum was a mistake—Enlarge / WETA "Gollum" figure at Arclight at the opening of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." (credit: Barry King / Contributor |...
- + Google patches its fifth zero-day vulnerability of the year in Chrome—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Google has updated its Chrome browser to patch a high-severity zero-day vulnerability that allows at...
- + Manor Lords’ medieval micromanagement means making many messes—Enlarge / This peaceful, pastoral scene actually represents a ton of hard work! (credit: Slavic Magic) Do you ever look around at ...
- + Chemical tweaks to a toad hallucinogen turns it into a potential drug—Enlarge / The Colorado River toad, also known as the Sonoran Desert Toad. (credit: Mark Newman ) It is becoming increasingly accep...
- + Automakers hedge their bets with plug-in hybrids as EV sales slow—Enlarge (credit: Honda) Global carmakers are stepping up their investment in hybrid technologies as consumers’ growing wariness over ...
- + US Cellular is for sale, reportedly could be “carved up” by major carriers—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) T-Mobile is reportedly close to buying a portion of the regional carrier US Cellular, w...
- + Apple apologizes for ad that crushes the sum total of human artistic endeavor—Enlarge / One of many human-created objects destroyed in Apple's "Crush!" ad for the iPad Pro. (credit: Apple) Earlier this week, A...
- + Phantom braking lands troubled EV-maker Fisker in feds’ crosshairs—Enlarge (credit: Graham Hughes/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The federal government is looking at a phantom braking problem that appear...
- + The wasps that tamed viruses—Enlarge / Xorides praecatorius is a parasitoid wasp. (credit: TorriPhoto via Getty ) If you puncture the ovary of a wasp called ...
- + Analyst on Starlink’s rapid rise: “Nothing short of mind-blowing”—Enlarge / 60 Starlink satellites stacked for launch at SpaceX facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2019. (credit: SpaceX ) Accor...
- + Outdoing the dinosaurs: What we can do if we spot a threatening asteroid—Enlarge / We'd like to avoid this. (credit: Science Photo Library/Andrzej Wojcicki/Getty Images) In 2005, the United States Congres...
- + Rocket Report: German launch from Australia; Neutron delayed until 2025—Enlarge / HyImpulse's single-stage rocket, SR75, lifts off from Australia. (credit: HyImpulse) Welcome to Edition 6.43 of the Rock...
- + First Dream Chaser spaceplane needs more work when it gets to launch site—Enlarge / Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spaceplane inside a NASA test chamber in Ohio. (credit: Sierra Space) There is still some wor...
- + Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is another big step forward for Linux on Apple Silicon Macs—Enlarge / RIP, Neofetch . (credit: Kevin Purdy) Asahi Linux, the project that aims to bring desktop Linux to Apple hardware with A...
- + Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) On Monday, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Ove...
- + The Volvo VNL, a heavy truck purpose-designed for North American roads—Enlarge / America sends five times more freight by truck than rail, so it's important to start making those trucks more fuel efficient and safer. (...
- + Solid-state polymer heat pump gets rid of the heat itself—Enlarge (credit: Jorg Greuel ) Heat pumps are the most energy-efficient way of controlling indoor temperature. By moving heat betwee...
- + Leaked FBI email stresses need for warrantless surveillance of Americans—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) A Federal Bureau of Investigation official recently urged employees to "look for ways...
- + Dell warns of “incident” that may have leaked customers’ personal info—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) For years, Dell customers have been on the receiving end of scam calls from people claiming to be part of t...
- + Discover why the world went quiet in new A Quiet Place: Day One trailer—Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn must escape a Manhattan overrun by aliens in A Quiet Place: Day One . Invading aliens transform a bustling New Yo...
- + The 2024 Moto G Stylus is a $400 mid-ranger with vegan leather—The Moto G Stylus 2024. [credit: Motorola ] ...
- + Apple’s plastic-free packaging means pack-in logo stickers are going away—Enlarge / Many different Apple stickers from many different products and eras. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) As a noted sticker ent...
- + Oil companies may soon have to pay for Vermont’s climate recovery—Enlarge / Ripton, VT - July 16, 2023: Ethan Poploski stood in front of his family's home, which had been destroyed by a landslide overnight. (cred...
- + Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip—Enlarge / Elon Musk, in Paris, France, on Friday, June 16, 2023. Musk predicted his Neuralink Corp. would carry out its first brain implant later t...
- + Max, Disney+, Hulu ad-free bundle coming amid high streaming cancellation rates—Enlarge / Streaming services are assembling... into a bundled package. (credit: Marvel Entertainment/YouTube ) Sometime this summe...
- + A crushing backlash to Apple’s new iPad ad—Enlarge / A screenshot of the Apple iPad ad. (credit: Apple via YouTube) An advert by Apple for its new iPad tablet showing musical...
- + NASA confirms “independent review” of Orion heat shield issue—Enlarge / The Orion spacecraft after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at the end of the Artemis I mission. (credit: NASA ) NASA has...
- + Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook—Enlarge (credit: themotioncloud/Getty Images) Ethan Zuckerman wants to release a tool that would allow Facebook users to control what...
- + Logic Pro gets some serious AI—and a version bump—for Mac and iPad—Enlarge / The new Chord Track feature. (credit: Apple) If you watched yesterday's iPad-a-palooza event from Apple, then you proba...
- + Critical vulnerabilities in BIG-IP appliances leave big networks open to intrusion—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers on Wednesday reported critical vulnerabilities in a widely used networking appliance that ...
- + Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) After reversing its positioning on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on ...
- + 40 years later, Kontrabant 2 for ZX Spectrum is rebroadcast on FM in Slovenia—Enlarge / In 1984, the year 2000 was so promising, students made entire games promising to take you there. (credit: Radio Student) ...
- + Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation—Enlarge / A still image of a robotic quadruped armed with a remote weapons system, captured from a video provided by Onyx Industries. (credit: Ony...
- + Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation—Enlarge / A still image of a robotic quadruped armed with a remote weapons system, captured from a video provided by Onyx Industries. (credit: Ony...
- + DeepMind adds a diffusion engine to latest protein-folding software—Enlarge / Prediction of the structure of a coronavirus Spike protein from a virus that causes the common cold. (credit: Google DeepMind) ...
- + Intel’s and Qualcomm’s Huawei export licenses get revoked—Enlarge / Huawei's Intel-powered Matebook X Pro has drawn criticism from US China hawks. (credit: Huawei) The US crackdown on expo...
- + Bike brands start to adopt C-V2X to warn cyclists about cars—Enlarge / A C-V2X bicycle can alert a C-V2X-enabled car to its presence—note the large yellow icon on the screenshot of the Audi's digital instrume...
- + M4 iPad Pro CPU cores and RAM amount are tied to storage capacity—Enlarge / The new M4 iPad Pro. (credit: Apple) When Apple announced the Apple M4 chip during its iPad Pro event yesterday, it m...
- + FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | nadla) The Federal Communications Commission clarified its net neutrality rules to prohibit more kind...
- + Tesla is under a federal wire fraud probe for misleading investors—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Tesla | Airplane!) There's more bad news for Tesla. On Monday, we learned that CEO Elon Musk is cont...
- + Tesla’s self-driving claims subject to federal securities and wire fraud probe—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Tesla | Airplane!) There's more bad news for Tesla. On Monday, we learned that CEO Elon Musk is cont...
- + Court rules against Activision Blizzard in $23.4M patent dispute—Enlarge / Acceleration Bay says World of Warcraft 's networking code infringes on a patent originally filed by Boeing. (credit: Activision Blizzar...
- + No one has seen the data behind Tyson’s “climate friendly beef” claim—Enlarge / The Environmental Working Group published a new analysis on Wednesday outlining its efforts to push the USDA for more transparency, inclu...
- + Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause—Enlarge / A scene from the Prime Video original series Fallout . (credit: Prime Video/YouTube ) Amazon Prime Video subscribers wi...
- + OpenAI’s flawed plan to flag deepfakes ahead of 2024 elections—Enlarge (credit: Boris Zhitkov | Moment ) As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and v...
- + Raspberry Pis get a built-in remote-access tool: Raspberry Pi Connect—Enlarge / Raspberry Pi Connect looks like a good reason to make a Pi account, at least if you're not running your own DynDNS, VPN, and other remote...
- + Raspberry Pis get a built-in remote access tool: Raspberry Pi Connect—Enlarge / Raspberry Pi Connect looks like a good reason to make a Pi account, at least if you're not running your own DynDNS, VPN, and other remote...
- + Amid two wrongful death lawsuits, Panera to pull the plug on “charged” drinks—Enlarge / Dispensers for Charged Lemondade, a caffeinated lemonade drink, at Panera Bread, Walnut Creek, California, March 27, 2023. (credit: Gett...
- + Hands-on with the new iPad Pros and Airs: A surprisingly refreshing refresh—Enlarge / Apple's latest iPad Air, now in two sizes. The Magic Keyboard accessory is the same one that you use with older iPad Airs and Pros, thoug...
- + Ransomware mastermind LockBitSupp reveled in his anonymity—now he’s been ID’d—Enlarge / Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, aka LockBitSupp (credit: UK National Crime Agency) Since at least 2019, a shadowy figure hidi...
- + Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Microsoft has introduced a GPT-4-based generative AI model designed specifically for US intelligence...
- + TikTok and its Chinese owner sue US government over “foreign adversary” law—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chesnot ) TikTok and its owner ByteDance today sued the federal government to block the "Foreign Adve...
- + Do you need a dentist visit every 6 months? That filling? The data is weak—Enlarge (credit: Getty | Julian Stratenschulte ) The field of dentistry is lagging on adopting evidence-based care and, as such, is ...
- + Boeing says workers skipped required tests on 787 but recorded work as completed—Enlarge / An American Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner preparing to take off at Barcelona-El Prat Airport in Spain on May 1, 2024. (credit: Getty I...
- + Sneaking science into Borderlands: Inside the game inside a game—Enlarge / Line up those colors and close those gaps... for science! In 2020, a new minigame appeared in the video game Borderla...
- + Doc who claimed COVID shots cause magnetism gets medical license back—Enlarge / Cleveland doctor Sherri Tenpenny gives false testimony on June 8, 2021, saying COVID-19 vaccines magnetize people. (credit: The Ohio Ch...
- + NHTSA sends Tesla massive data request as it investigates Autopilot recall—Enlarge (credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images) The federal government has given Tesla quite the homework assignment. The electric automa...
- + The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates—The Pixel 8a. [credit: Google ] ...
- + Hands-on with the new John Wick pinball—Enlarge / John? Is that you, John? John? Can't we discuss this like civilized men? (credit: Stern Pinball) If you don’t follow the...
- + Microsoft shuts down Bethesda’s Hi-Fi Rush, Redfall studios—Enlarge / Artist's conception of Microsoft telling Hi-Fi Rush maker Tango Gameworks they no longer exist as a studio. (credit: Tango Gameworks) ...
- + New “Apple Pencil Pro” can do a barrel roll—The Apple Pencil Pro [credit: Apple ] ...
- + Apple kills $329 iPad with home button, Lightning port—Enlarge Apple is lowering the price of its 10th-generation iPad from $399 to $349, the company announced at its Let Loose event to...
- + Nintendo pre-announces a Switch 2 announcement is coming… eventually—Enlarge / Nintendo will eventually gift us Switch 2 information, hopefully in time for Christmas. (credit: Aurich Lawson) While the...
- + Apple announces M4 with more CPU cores and AI focus, just months after M3—Enlarge / Apple's M4 chip in the new iPad Pro. It follows the M3 by just a few months. (credit: Apple) In a major shake-up of its ...
- + New iPad Pros are the thinnest Apple device ever, feature dual-OLED screens—Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple's newest iPad Pro puts an M4 chip inside a thinner frame and is available in new 11-inch and 13-inch si...
- + Apple’s first 13-inch iPad Air debuts at $799 next week—Enlarge / M2-based iPad Airs come out next week. (credit: Apple) Apple today announced the first 13-inch iPad Air. The company is a...
- + Here’s why a rich guy going to space for a second time actually matters—Enlarge / The crew of Polaris Dawn from L to R: Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, Jared Isaacman, and Sarah Gillis. (credit: John Kraus/Polaris Program) ...
- + Faulty valve scuttles Starliner’s first crew launch—Enlarge / The Atlas V rocket and Starliner spacecraft on their launch pad Monday. (credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky ) Astronauts Butch Wil...
- + Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game—Enlarge / I can see the code that controls the Tetri-verse! (credit: Aurich Lawson) Earlier this year, we shared the story of how...
- + Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces...
- + Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices—Enlarge / Google Fit seems like it's on the way out. (credit: Ron Amadeo / Google) Google is killing off the Google Fit APIs. The p...
- + New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini—Enlarge / Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Inflection AI UK Ltd., during a town hall on day two of the World Economic Fo...
- + SpaceX got the fanfare, but Boeing’s first crew flight is still historic—Enlarge / Astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) inside a Starliner simulator at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. (credit...
- + Telcos keep using “insecure” Chinese gear because of congressional inaction—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) The US government has pressured telcos to rip out network gear made by Chinese companies H...
- + SEC crypto crackdown continues with Robinhood as lawsuit looms—Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto ) Continuing its crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges, the Securities and Exchan...
- + Tesla announces fourth round of layoffs in four weeks—Enlarge (credit: Karol Serewis/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) On Sunday night, even more Tesla workers learned they were n...
- + Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon—Enlarge / Rather than going to beaches to catch Wigletts, some Pokémon Go players are trying to bring the beaches to themselves. (credit: Niantic...
- + Sony backs down, won’t enforce PSN accounts for Helldivers 2 PC players on Steam—Enlarge / Aiming a single rifle sight into an earth-moving explosion feels like some kind of metaphor for the Helldivers 2 delayed PSN requiremen...
- + Doctor Who’s sparkling new season feels like a fresh return to form—Enlarge / Ncuti Gatwa is the Fifteenth Doctor, and Millie Gibson is his new companion, Ruby Sunday, in new season of Doctor Who . (credit: Disney+...
- + The surprise is not that Boeing lost commercial crew but that it finished at all—Enlarge / Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is lifted to be placed atop an Atlas V rocket for its first crewed launch. (credit: United Launch Alliance)...
- + Here are all the F1 cars designed by the legendary Adrian Newey—Enlarge / When you're a legendary F1 designer like Adrian Newey, it's easy to persuade the team to let you have a go in one of your own creations. ...
- + The Boys S4 trailer brings us more bloody mayhem and “Homelander on Ice”—The long-awaited fourth season of the Prime Video series, The Boys, premieres on June 13, 2024 Last summer's Hollywood strikes delayed a number...
- + It’s Star Wars Day, and we have a new trailer for The Acolyte to celebrate—"No one is safe from the truth" in new trailer for The Acolyte . It's Star Wars Day, and to mark the occasion, Disney+ has dropped a new trailer ...
- + It’s Star Wars Day and we have a new trailer for The Acolyte to celebrate—"No one is safe from the truth" in new trailer for The Acolyte . It's Star Wars Day, and to mark the occasion, Disney+ has dropped a new trailer ...
- + These dangerous scammers don’t even bother to hide their crimes—Enlarge (credit: Kuzmik_A/Getty Images ) Most scammers and cybercriminals operate in the digital shadows and don’t want you to know ...
- + Glow of an exoplanet may be from starlight reflecting off liquid iron—Enlarge / Artist impression of a glory on exoplanet WASP-76b. (credit: ESA ) Do rainbows exist on distant worlds? Many phenomena t...
- + Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how.—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Translating human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses has long been fraught with gaping ...
- + Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats—Enlarge / Kenneth Dintzer, litigator for the US Department of Justice, exits federal court in Washington, DC, on September 20, 2023, during the ant...
- + Sony demands PSN accounts for Helldivers 2 PC players, and it’s not going well—Enlarge / This gear is from the upcoming "Polar Patriots" Premium Warbond in Helldivers 2 . It's an upcoming change the developer and publisher li...
- + Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations—Enlarge / Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, California. (credit: Getty ) A Florida resident was sentenced to 78 months for r...
- + We still don’t understand how one human apparently got bird flu from a cow—Enlarge / Holstein dairy cows in a freestall barn. (credit: Getty | ) The US Department of Agriculture this week posted an unpubl...
- + What to expect from Apple’s May 7 “Let loose” event—Enlarge / The promotional image for Apple's May 7 event. (credit: Apple) On May 7, Apple will host a product announcement event at ...
- + Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches—Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. (credit: Microsoft ) It's been a bad couple of years for Microsoft's security and privacy effor...
- + NASA hasn’t landed on the Moon in decades—China just sent its third in six years—Enlarge / A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 lunar probe blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on May 3, 2024 in Wenchang, Chi...
- + AI in space: Karpathy suggests AI chatbots as interstellar messengers to alien civilizations—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) On Thursday, renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy , formerly of OpenAI and Tesla, tweeted a light...
- + Ecobee is shutting down some of its very first products—Enlarge / The first Ecobee Thermostat, may it rest in peace. (credit: Ecobee) Ecobee is killing off some of its oldest thermostats....
- + Google tells court it shouldn’t have to distribute third-party app stores—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev) Google urged a federal court to reject Epic Games' request for an injunction that...
- + Mayans burned and buried dead political regimes—Enlarge / Mayans built impressive structures and occasionally put interesting items in the construction fill. (credit: Dr. Jürgen Tenckhoff ) ...
- + Here’s how Jaguar will relaunch as an all-EV brand—Enlarge / Its unlikely the next electric Jaguar will look much like these extreme coupés, designed by the brand for Gran Turismo . (credit: Jaguar...
- + Jaguar wins 1-2 in Monaco as it prepares its rebirth as EV-only brand—Enlarge / Its unlikely the next electric Jaguar will look much like these extreme coupés, designed by the brand for Gran Turismo . (credit: Jaguar...
- + Two seconds of hope for fusion power—Enlarge / The interior or the DIII-D tokamak. (credit: General Atomics ) Using nuclear fusion, the process that powers the stars, ...
- + Inside Shōgun: How visual effects brought 17th-century feudal Japan to vivid life—Enlarge / FX/Hulu's Shōgun is a stunning new adaptation of the bestselling 1975 novel by James Clavell. (credit: FX/Hulu) FX/Hulu...
- + Inside Shōgun: How special effects brought 17th-century feudal Japan to vivid life—Enlarge / FX/Hulu's Shōgun is a stunning new adaptation of the bestselling 1975 novel by James Clavell. (credit: FX/Hulu) FX/Hulu...
- + Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook—Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto via Getty ) “Join Your Local Militia or III% Patriot Group,” a post urged the more than 650 members of a F...
- + What’s happening at Tesla? Here’s what experts think.—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Beata Zawrzel) No car company in recent years has been able to generate more news hea...
- + Mini Settlers is a city builder that you can both enjoy and actually put down—Enlarge / Are you enticed by this kind of orderly madness with a clean graphical layout? Then I suggest you… settle in. (credit: Goblinz Studio) ...
- + Rocket Report: Astroscale chases down dead rocket; Ariane 6 on the pad—Enlarge / This image captured by Astroscale's ADRAS-J satellite shows the discarded upper stage from a Japanese H-IIA rocket. (credit: Astroscale ...
- + Apple’s Q2 2024 earnings reveal a drop in iPhone, iPad sales—Enlarge / The Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. (credit: Anadolu Agency | Getty ) Apple's earnings report for the seco...
- + AT&T announces $7 monthly add-on fee for “Turbo” 5G speeds—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) AT&T is now charging mobile customers an extra $7 per month for faster wireless data s...
- + Apple deal could have been “suicide” for Google, company lawyer says—Enlarge / John Schmidtlein, partner at Williams & Connolly LLP and lead litigator for Alphabet Inc.'s Google, arrives to federal court in Washi...
- + UHF in UHD: Weird Al’s cult classic movie will get its first 4K release—Weird Al's Rambo parody was a drop in the bucket amidst all the other jokes in the film, but it's among the most memorable. ...
- + One and done: Elden Ring’s first DLC expansion will also be its last—Enlarge / A big erdtree casts a big shadow. (credit: Namco Bandai) The good news for Elden Ring fans is that the two-plus-year wa...
- + Maximum-severity GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation—Enlarge A maximum severity vulnerability that allows hackers to hijack GitLab accounts with no user interaction required is now unde...
- + GeForce Now has made Steam Deck streaming much easier than it used to be—Enlarge / Streaming Fallout 4 from GeForce Now might seem unnecessary, unless you know how running it natively has been going . (credit: Kevin P...
- + Wear OS’s big comeback continues; might hit half of Apple Watch sales—Enlarge / The Samsung Watch 6 classic. (credit: Samsung) Wear OS was nearly dead a few years ago but is now on a remarkable comeb...
- + Apple will bring sideloading and other EU-mandated changes to iPadOS this fall—Enlarge (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Starting in March with the release of iOS 17.4, iPhones in the European Union have been subject t...
- + Hades II’s new combat options enhance an already great game—Enlarge / New gods, same old drama. (credit: Supergiant) Here at Ars, we were obviously excited by the late 2022 announcement of ...
- + Maya used hallucinogenic plants in rituals to bless their ball courts—Enlarge / A decorative ring made from carved stone is embedded in the wall of a ballcourt in the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza. (credit: Kåre ...
- + Maya used hallucinogenic plants in “ensouling” rituals for their ball courts—Enlarge / A decorative ring made from carved stone is embedded in the wall of a ballcourt in the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza. (credit: Kåre ...
- + Study: The Maya blessed their ball courts in rituals with hallucinogenic plants—Enlarge / A decorative ring made from carved stone is embedded in the wall of a ballcourt in the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza. (credit: Kåre ...
- + First look at the Sony Honda EV: More than a PlayStation on wheels—Enlarge / Sony Honda Mobility will start taking orders for its AFEELA EV next year. (credit: Peter Nelson) We're living through a p...
- + First look at the Sony Honda EV: More than a Playstation on wheels—Enlarge / Sony Honda Mobility will start taking orders for its AFEELA EV next year. (credit: Peter Nelson) We're living through a p...
- + April updates for Windows 10 and 11 break some VPN software, Microsoft says—Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is currently investigating a bug in its most recent batch of Windows 10 and Windows 11 updates ...
- + Storing energy with compressed air is about to have its moment of truth—Enlarge / A rendering of Silver City Energy Centre, a compressed air energy storage plant to be built by Hydrostor in Broken Hill, New South Wales,...
- + NASA says Artemis II report by its inspector general is unhelpful and redundant—Enlarge / Orion, the Moon, and Earth in one photo in December 2022. (credit: NASA) NASA's acting inspector general, George A. Scott...
- + The 2024 Acura ZDX Type-S: This electric SUV feels polished but heavy—Enlarge / When fitted with the optional carbon-fiber appearance pack, the ZDX manages to give off station wagon vibes. But others thought it looked...
- + Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office routers everywhere—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica ) Cybercriminals and spies working for nation-states are surreptitiously coexisting in...
- + All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) Streaming services like Netflix and Peacock have already found multiple ways to aggravate paying subscriber...
- + Anthropic releases Claude AI chatbot iOS app—Enlarge / The Claude AI iOS app running on an iPhone. (credit: Anthropic) On Wednesday, Anthropic announced the launch of an iOS...
- + Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) The Federal Communications Commission chair today made a final plea to Congress, aski...
- + Dave & Buster’s is adding real money betting options to arcade staples—Enlarge / It's a good thing this kid is too young to bet on Skee-Ball, because his dad is getting beat . (credit: Getty Images) An...
- + Alarming superbug from deadly eyedrop outbreak has spread to dogs—Enlarge / A dog gets examined by veterinary technicians in Texas. (credit: Getty | Michael Paulsen ) Two separately owned dogs in ...
- + Email Microsoft didn’t want seen reveals rushed decision to invest in OpenAI—Enlarge (credit: HJBC | iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus ) In mid-June 2019, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Satya Nadel...
- + AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing—Enlarge / Congress provides government support for other industries, so why not AM radio? (credit: Getty Images) A controversial b...
- + ChatGPT shows better moral judgment than a college undergrad—Enlarge / Judging moral weights (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) When it comes to judging which large language models are the...
- + Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app—Enlarge / The Rabbit R1. (credit: Rabbit Inc) If you haven't heard of the Rabbit R1 , this is yet another "AI box" that is trying ...
- + Supreme Court decides not to block Texas law that age-gates porn websites—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | PA Thompson) The US Supreme Court yesterday denied a request to block a Texas law that requires age-v...
- + The BASIC programming language turns 60—Enlarge / Part of the cover illustration from "The Applesoft Tutorial" BASIC manual that shipped with the Apple II computer starting in 1981. (cred...
- + iOS 17.5 makes it less of a hassle to send your iPhone into Apple for repairs—Enlarge (credit: Apple) If you've ever sent an iPhone in for repair, you might be familiar with the dance Apple asks you to do if y...
- + Europe’s ambitious satellite Internet project appears to be running into trouble—Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton wants Europe to have its own secure satellite communications network. (credit: Thierry...
- + AI video throwdown: OpenAI’s Sora vs. Runway and Pika—Enlarge (credit: FT) OpenAI has been showcasing Sora, its artificial intelligence video-generation model, to media industry executive...
- + Daily Telescope: The Horsehead Nebula as we’ve never seen it before—Enlarge / The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the...
- + CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Telecom provider CenturyLink left a couple in Oregon without landline phone service fo...
- + Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink—Enlarge / The Intelsat 901 satellite is seen by a Northrop Grumman servicing vehicle in 2020. (credit: Northrop Grumman ) Facing c...
- + Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer—Enlarge / A photo of the Cheyenne supercomputer, which is now up for auction. (credit: US General Services Administration ) On Tue...
- + The iPhone’s next AAA game, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, gets a release date—Enlarge / Assassin's Creed Mirage returned to the earlier games' focus on stealth assassinations in a historical urban environment. (credit: Ubis...
- + DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say—Enlarge / Medical marijuana growing in a facility in Canada. (credit: Getty | Richard Lautens ) The US Drug Enforcement Administra...
- + Binance’s billionaire founder gets 4 months for violating money laundering law—Enlarge / Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao arrives at federal court in Seattle for sentencing on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (credit: Getty Images | ...
- + Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Change Healthcare, the health care services provider that recently experienced a ransomware attack tha...
- + Researchers make a plastic that includes bacteria that can digest it—Enlarge (credit: Han Sol Kim) One reason plastic waste persists in the environment is because there's not much that can eat it. The c...
- + AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300—Enlarge / Be careful with the buckets you put out there for anybody to fill. (credit: Getty Images) If you're using Amazon Web Serv...
- + Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) On Sunday, word began to spread on social media about a new mystery chatbot named "gpt2-chatbot" tha...
- + Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms from sounding—Enlarge / An iPhone in Standby mode, charging wirelessly on a desk. (credit: Apple) If your iPhone's alarm hasn't woken you lately,...
- + FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks—Enlarge (credit: Razer) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced this week a proposed settlement [ PDF ] against Razer that would...
- + EU probes Meta for killing tool that enables real-time election monitoring—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chesnot ) The European Commission today accused Meta of violating rules related to deceptive advertis...
- + Latest Google layoffs hit the Flutter and Python groups—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Alexander Koerner) Another day, another round of Google layoffs. TechCrunch reports the company has...
- + Behind the wheel of CXC’s $600,000 off-road racing simulator—Enlarge / CXC Simulations needed to come up with something special for Norwegian Cruise Lines, so it built an off-road racing simulator. (credit: C...
- + “Forgotten” poem by C.S. Lewis published for the first time—Enlarge / University of Leeds Literary Archivist Sarah Prescott holds "Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg," by C.S. Lewis. (credit: © CS Lewis Pte Ltd) ...
- + Apple poaches AI experts from Google, creates secretive European AI lab—Enlarge / Apple has been tight-lipped about its AI plans but industry insiders suggest the company is focused on deploying generative AI on its mob...
- + New space company seeks to solve orbital mobility with high delta-v spacecraft—Enlarge / What a Supernova spacecraft might look like in orbit. (credit: Portal Space Systems) Over the course of the last seven de...
- + Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles—Enlarge / Tesla is laying off around 500 staff who have worked on its Supercharger network, plus its new vehicle development team and its public po...
- + NASA lays out how SpaceX will refuel Starships in low-Earth orbit—Enlarge / Artist's illustration of two Starships docked belly-to-belly in orbit. (credit: SpaceX) Some time next year, NASA believ...
- + Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk—Enlarge / Farm cats drinking from a trough of milk from cows that were just milked. (credit: Getty | ) On March 16, cows on a Tex...
- + Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time—Enlarge (credit: Roku) Roku CEO Anthony Wood disclosed plans to introduce video ads to the Roku OS home screen. The news highlights R...
- + Dead Boy Detectives turns Neil Gaiman’s ghostly duo into “Hardy Boys on acid”—Enlarge / Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri) are the Dead Boy Detectives, ghosts who solve paranormal mysteries. (credit: Netflix )...
- + Critics question tech-heavy lineup of new Homeland Security AI safety board—Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards | Getty Images ) On Friday, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of an Art...
- + Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says—Enlarge (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Starting in March with the release of iOS 17.4, iPhones in the European Union have been subject t...
- + FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) The Federal Communications Commission today said it fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Veriz...
- + UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) If you build a gadget that connects to the Internet and sell it in the United Kingdom, you can no long...
- + Account compromise of “unprecedented scale” uses everyday home devices—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Authentication service Okta is warning about the “unprecedented scale” of an ongoing campaign that rou...
- + Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours—Enlarge / AI is here to terminate your bank account. (credit: Carolco Pictures) Give the AI access to your credit card, they said....
- + Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures—Enlarge / Intel's top-end i9-14900KS. (credit: Intel) Earlier this month, we wrote that some of Intel's recent high-end Core i9 ...
- + Elon Musk loses at Supreme Court in case over “funding secured” tweets—Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at the Satellite Conference and Exhibition on March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Win McNamee ) ...
- + Report suggests Switch 2 can play all original Switch games—A mock-up posted by MobaPad provides one vision of how magnetically attached Switch 2 Joy-Cons might look (credit: MobaPad ) Thus far...
- + Ford BlueCruise driver assist under federal scrutiny following 2 deaths—Enlarge / BlueCruise allows drivers to take their hands off the wheel but not their eyes off the road. (credit: Ford) The federal r...
- + Meta to face EU probe for not doing enough to stop Russian disinformation—Enlarge (credit: FT) Brussels is set to open a probe into Meta’s Facebook and Instagram as soon as Monday over concerns the social me...
- + First post: A history of online public messaging—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) People have been leaving public messages since the first artists painted hunting scene...
- + Swimming and spinning aquatic spiders use slick survival strategies—Enlarge / Of all the aquatic spiders, the diving bell spider is the only one known to survive almost entirely underwater, using bubbles of air it b...
- + Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back—Enlarge / Jürgen Trittin, member of the German Bundestag and former environment minister, stands next to an activist during an action of the enviro...
- + There’s never been a better time to get into Fallout 76—Enlarge / More players have been emerging from this vault lately than have in years. (credit: Samuel Axon) War never changes , but...
- + NASA still doesn’t understand root cause of Orion heat shield issue—Enlarge / NASA's Orion spacecraft descends toward the Pacific Ocean on December 11, 2021, at the end of the Artemis I mission. (credit: NASA) ...
- + Putting Microsoft’s cratering Xbox console sales in context—Enlarge / Scale is important, especially when talking about relative console sales. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Yesterda...
- + Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Creativeye99) A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling that prevented New York from enforcing ...
- + Android TV has access to your entire account—but Google is changing that—Enlarge (credit: Google) Google says it has patched a nasty loophole in the Android TV account security system, which would grant att...
- + Hackers try to exploit WordPress plugin vulnerability that’s as severe as it gets—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions of attempts to exploit...
- + US’s power grid continues to lower emissions—everything else, not so much—Enlarge (credit: US EIA ) On Thursday, the US Department of Energy released its preliminary estimate for the nation's carbon emiss...
- + Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord—Enlarge (credit: Discord) Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages ...
- + TikTok owner has strong First Amendment case against US ban, professors say—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) TikTok owner ByteDance is preparing to sue the US government now that President Biden has ...
- + Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release—Enlarge / A DOS prompt. Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to ...
- + Tesla’s 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny—Enlarge / A 2014 Tesla Model S driving on Autopilot rear-ended a Culver City fire truck that was parked in the high-occupancy vehicle lane on Inter...
- + Switch 2 reportedly replaces slide-in Joy-Cons with magnetic attachment—Enlarge / The slide-on Joy-Con connection point shown in the center of the image may be a thing of the past on the Switch 2 The ic...
- + 20% of grocery store milk has traces of bird flu, suggesting wider outbreak—Enlarge (credit: Getty | Jeffrey Greenberg ) The Food and Drug Administration reported late Thursday that about 20 percent of retai...
- + Lost opportunity: We could’ve started fighting climate change in 1971—Enlarge / A newly revealed research proposal from 1971 shows that Richard Nixon’s science advisors embarked on an extensive analysis of the potenti...
- + Rocket Report: SLS workforce cuts; New Glenn launch to launch in the early fall—Enlarge / The flight hardware core stage for Europe’s new rocket, Ariane 6, is moved onto the launch pad for the first time this week. A launch is ...
- + Russia stands alone in vetoing UN resolution on nuclear weapons in space—Enlarge / A meeting of the UN Security Council on April 14. (credit: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images ) Russia vetoed a United...
- + Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not—Enlarge / Tech brands love hollering about the purported thrills of AI these days. (credit: Getty ) Logitech announced a new mous...
- + Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa—Enlarge / Drops of the blood going onto an HIV quick test. (credit: Getty | BRITTA PEDERSEN ) Trendy, unproven "vampire facials" p...
- + HMD’s first self-branded phones are all under $200—The HMD Pulse base model. [credit: HMD ] ...
- + Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In the world of AI, what might be called "small language models" have been growing in popularity recen...
- + Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal?—Enlarge / The Q*Bert's so bright, I gotta wear shades. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Gottlieb) For years now, video game ...
- + Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Noble Numbat, overhauls its installation and app experience—Enlarge / Ubuntu has come a long way over nearly 20 years, to the point where you can now render 3D Ubuntu coffee mugs and family pictures in a vid...
- + Millions of IPs remain infected by USB worm years after its creators left it for dead—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A now-abandoned USB worm that backdoors connected devices has continued to self-replicate for years si...
- + Toyota will spend $1.4 billion to build electric 3-row SUV in Indiana—Enlarge / This Toyota factory in Indiana is getting a $1.4 billion investment so it can assemble a new three-row electric SUV for the automaker. (c...
- + Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato—Enlarge / Imaging setup for a charred ancient papyrus recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum; 30 percent of the text has now been deciphered. (cre...
- + FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote—Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, then a commissioner, rallies against repeal of net neutrality rules in D...
- + Honda to spend $11 billion on four EV factories in North America—Enlarge / Honda is investing CAD$15 billion (US $11 billion) to expand EV manufacturing in North America with four sites in Ontario, Canada. (credi...
- + School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) On Thursday, Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School's former athletic director, Daz...
- + EPA issues four rules limiting pollution from fossil fuel power plants—Enlarge (credit: Jose A. Bernat Bacete ) Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced a suite of rules that target poll...
- + Garry’s Mod is taking down 20 years’ worth of “Nintendo Stuff”—Enlarge / "5ario" here won't be on the Garry's Mod Steam Workshop for long. (credit: Steam / LmaoSPW ) The popular long-running...
- + In the face of bans, ByteDance tightens grip over US TikTok operations—Enlarge (credit: FT/Getty Images) TikTok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance tightened its grip over its US operations over the past two ...
- + If Starship is real, we’re going to need big cargo movers on the Moon and Mars—Enlarge / The author tries not to crash a lunar rover. (credit: Eric Berger) As a SpaceX engineer working on the Starship program a...
- + Qualcomm says lower-end Snapdragon X Plus chips can still outrun Apple’s M3—Enlarge (credit: Qualcomm) Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series of chips promises to be the company’s first that can go toe-to-toe with App...
- + Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) “Gadgets aren’t fun anymore,” sighed my wife, watching me tap away on my Palm Zire 72 as she sat on t...
- + Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) Reddit has made it clear that it’s an ad-first business. Today, it expanded on that practice with a new ad ...
- + A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists—The Polestar Phone. Someday it will unlock your Polestar car. [credit: Polestar ...
- + We may have spotted the first magnetar flare outside our galaxy—Enlarge / M82, the site of what's likely to be a giant flare from a magnetar. (credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team) Gamm...
- + Nation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Hackers backed by a powerful nation-state have been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco...
- + Cisco firewall 0-days under attack for 5 months by resourceful nation-state hackers—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Hackers backed by a powerful nation-state have been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco...
- + Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policin...
- + Chamber of Commerce sues FTC in Texas, asks court to block ban on noncompetes—(credit: Getty Images | eccolo74) The US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups sued the Federal Trade Commission and FTC Chair...
- + No more refunds after 100 hours: Steam closes Early Access playtime loophole—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) " Early Access " was once a novel, quirky thing , giving a select set of Steam PC games a way to invo...
- + Google can’t quit third-party cookies—delays shut down for a third time—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Will Chrome, the world's most popular browser, ever kill third-party cookies? Apple and Mozilla both...
- + Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion—Enlarge (credit: boonchai wedmakawand ) California's electric grid, with its massive solar production and booming battery installati...
- + The Fall Guy spotlights its amazing stuntmen in meta marketing video—Ryan Gosling hosts a round of carpool karaoke with his stuntmen for the forthcoming action comedy The Fall Guy . Universal Studios has been goin...
- + US bans TikTok owner ByteDance, will prohibit app in US unless it is sold—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chesnot ) The Senate last night approved a bill that orders TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the compan...
- + Elite: Dangerous’s real-money ship sales spark “pay-to-win” outrage—Enlarge / Players will be able to throw down a few bucks to get the Python Mk 2 starting next month. (credit: Frontier Developments) ...
- + SpaceX has now landed more boosters than most other rockets ever launch—Enlarge / SpaceX landed its 300th booster on Tuesday. (credit: SpaceX webcast) SpaceX launches have become extremely routine. On Tu...
- + Mercedes’ electric G-Wagon is more capable than the gas version—Enlarge / Electric power has not robbed the G-Wagon of its off-road skills. If anything, it has enhanced them. (credit: Mercedes-Benz) ...
- + Hackers are using developing countries for ransomware practice—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cyber attackers are experimenting with their latest ransomware on businesses in Africa, Asia, and Sout...
- + Hackers are carrying out ransomware experiments in developing countries—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cyber attackers are experimenting with their latest ransomware on businesses in Africa, Asia and South...
- + Tesla profits drop 55% as Elon Musk dodges cheap car questions—Enlarge / Tesla shares rose by almost 11 percent in premarket trading despite the disastrous financial results. (credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing vi...
- + Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up?—Enlarge (credit: Qualcomm) Signs point to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors showing up in actual, real-world, human-purchasabl...
- + Fragments of bird flu virus genome found in pasteurized milk, FDA says—Enlarge / Cows being milked (credit: Getty | Edwin Remsberg ) The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced that genetic f...
- + The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC—Enlarge / I have hundreds of UUIDs and I must scream. (credit: Getty Images) The modern "smart" TV asks a lot of us. In exchange fo...
- + Why canned wine can smell like rotten eggs while beer and Coke are fine—Enlarge (credit: BackyardProduction/Getty Images) True wine aficionados might turn up their noses, but canned wines are growing in ...
- + Nestlé baby foods loaded with unhealthy sugars—but only in poorer countries—Enlarge / Night view of company logos in Nestlé Avanca Dairy Products Plant on January 21, 2019, in Avanca, Portugal. This plant produces Cerelac, ...
- + You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000—Enlarge / The Thermonator robot flamethrower dog. (credit: Throwflame ) If you've been wondering when you'll be able to order the ...
- + FTC bans noncompete clauses, declares vast majority unenforceable—Enlarge / Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan talks with guests during an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 03, 2024 ...
- + Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers abused an antivirus service for five years in order to infect end users with malware. The atta...
- + Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mi...
- + Grindr users seek payouts after dating app shared HIV status with vendors—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Thomas Trutschel) Grindr is facing a class action lawsuit from hundreds of users over the sharing of ...
- + iPadOS 18 could ship with built-in Calculator app, after 14 Calculator-less years—Enlarge (credit: Apple/Andrew Cunningham) Last year, Apple introduced the ability to set multiple timers at once in the Clock app on ...
- + Tiny rubber spheres used to make a programmable fluid—Enlarge / At critical pressures, the fluid's spheres become a mixture of different states. (credit: Adel Djellouli/Harvard SEAS ) ...
- + Recoding Voyager 1—NASA’s interstellar explorer is finally making sense again—Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting, building con...
- + Rumored new 4K Chromecast may fix long-standing storage issues—Enlarge / The 2020 4K Chromecast with Google TV. It comes in colors. (credit: Google ) It sounds like Google is cooking up anothe...
- + You can now disable some of Fortnite’s most toxic emotes—The "Laugh it Up" emote is one of four that can now be blocked using a setting in Fortnite . [credit: ...
- + Apple’s next product event happens on May 7, and it’s probably iPads—Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple is going to announce some new things on Tuesday, May 7, at 10 am Eastern, according to an invitation th...
- + Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) There's a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it's a bit specialized. Its development was led by ...
- + North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) For almost a decade, Nick Roy has been scanning North Korea’s tiny Internet presence , spot...
- + The 2024 Porsche Macan EV has character, pace, and the right badge—Enlarge / The third-generation Porsche Macan drops the internal combustion engine—this one is only available as a battery-electric vehicle. (credit...
- + Daily Telescope: The ambiguously galactic duo—Enlarge / This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy about 130 million light-years from E...
- + Concern grows as bird flu spreads further in US cows: 32 herds in 8 states—Enlarge / Greylag geese sit on a field and rest while a cow passes by in the background. (credit: Getty | Daniel Bockwoldt ) Rese...
- + Meta debuts Horizon OS, with Asus, Lenovo, and Microsoft on board—Enlarge / The Meta Quest Pro at a Best Buy demo station in October 2022. Meta will open up the operating system that runs on its Q...
- + Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attac...
- + Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian backdoor—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attac...
- + High-speed imaging and AI help us understand how insect wings work—Enlarge / A time-lapse showing how an insect's wing adopts very specific positions during flight. (credit: Florian Muijres, Dickinson Lab) ...
- + NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan—Enlarge / Artist's illustration of Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Titan. (credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben ) NASA...
- + Biden signs bill criticized as “major expansion of warrantless surveillance”—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) Congress passed and President Biden signed a reauthorization of Title VII of the Fore...
- + First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM—Enlarge / OnLeak's renders of the Pixel 9 Pro XL , the Pixel 9 Pro , and the Pixel 9. (credit: OnLeaks / 91Mobiles / MySmartPrice) ...
- + Home Assistant has a new foundation and a goal to become a consumer brand—Enlarge (credit: Open Home Foundation) Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open...
- + Home Assistant’s new foundation focused on “privacy, choice, and sustainability”—Enlarge (credit: Open Home Foundation) Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open...
- + Apple reportedly plans M4 Mac mini for late 2024 or early 2025, skipping the M3—Enlarge / The M2 Pro Mac mini. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Bloomberg's Mark Gurman thinks that Apple's M4 chips for Macs are coming...
- + After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip—Enlarge / A cropped portion of a ca. 1980 ad for the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard, which allowed Apple II users to run the CP/M operating system. (credit...
- + Why a GameCube/Wii emulator may not be possible on the iOS App Store—Enlarge / Don't expect to see this on the iOS App Store any time soon. (credit: OatmealDome ) Last week's release of the Delta em...
- + Tesla cuts Full Self Driving cost by 1/3 ahead of earnings call—Enlarge / Tesla's "Full Self Driving" system just got a third cheaper. (credit: Edie Leong for The Washington Post via Getty Images) ...
- + The official Deadpool and Wolverine trailer is finally here, and yes, it’s awesome—Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman join forces in Deadpool and Wolverine . We were already looking forward to the summer release of Deadpool and Wol...
- + TikTok ready to “move to the courts” to prevent ban in US—Enlarge (credit: Sheldon Coope | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images ) TikTok is gearing up for a long legal battle to fight l...
- + Meet QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) What comes after OLED? With OLED-equipped TVs, monitors, and other gadgets slowly becoming more readily a...
- + Explore a digitized collection of doomed Everest climber’s letters home—Enlarge / The final letter from George Mallory from Camp I, Mount Everest, to his wife Ruth Mallory, May 27, 1924. (credit: The Master and Fellows ...
- + Secrets of the Octopus takes us inside the world of these “aliens on Earth”—Enlarge / A Day octopus ( Octopus cyanea ) named Scarlet parachutes her web over a coral head while Dr. Alex Schnell observes. (credit: National Ge...
- + The fungi in our guts can make cases of COVID worse—Enlarge / Computer illustration of Candida fungi. (credit: Kateryna Kon | Science Photo Library | Getty) Fungi are an indispensab...
- + The fungi in our guts can make cases of Covid worse—Enlarge / Computer illustration of Candida fungi. (credit: Kateryna Kon | Science Photo Library | Getty) Fungi are an indispensable...
- + War never changes: A Fallout fan’s spoiler-laden review of the new TV series—Enlarge / The nukes went off in 2077 in Fallout's universe. The show tells us more about this event than we've learned from the games before. (cred...
- + Why are groups of university students modifying Cadillac Lyriq EVs?—Enlarge / For the previous EcoCar 3 competition , student teams turned Camaro sportscars into hybrids. For the EcoCar EV challenge, their job is t...
- + The GMO tooth microbe that is supposed to prevent cavities—Enlarge (credit: zhangshuang via Getty ) About seven years ago, Aaron Silverbook and his then-girlfriend, a biologist, were perusing...
- + Daniel Dennett, philosophical giant who championed “naturalism,” dead at 82—Enlarge / Daniel Dennett, a leading philosopher with provocative takes on consciousness, free will, and AI, has died at 82. (credit: Alonso Nichol...
- + Philosopher Daniel Dennett dead at 82—Enlarge / Daniel Dennett, a leading philosopher with provocative takes on consciousness, free will, and AI, has died at 82. (credit: Alonso Nichol...
- + It’s cutting calories—not intermittent fasting—that drops weight, study suggests—Enlarge (credit: Getty | David Jennings ) Intermittent fasting, aka time-restricted eating, can help people lose weight—but the reas...
- + CNN, record holder for shortest streaming service, wants another shot—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) On March 29, 2022, CNN+ , CNN's take on a video streaming service, debuted. On April 28, 2022 , it shutte...
- + Long-lost model of the USS Enterprise returned to Roddenberry family—Enlarge / This mysterious model appeared on eBay with little fanfare. (credit: eBay) The first-ever model of Star Trek's USS Enter...
- + Cities: Skylines 2 team apologizes, makes DLC free and promises a fan summit—Enlarge / Like the Beach Properties DLC itself, this property looks a bit unfinished and in need of some focus. (credit: Paradox Interactive) ...
- + Netflix doc accused of using AI to manipulate true crime story—Enlarge / A cropped image showing Raw TV's poster for the Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did , which features a long front tooth that leads cri...
- + Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera—Enlarge / The Huawei Pura 70 Ultra. That red ring around the camera lens is how far it moves. (credit: Huawei) Huawei is still out...
- + Io: New image of a lake of fire, signs of permanent volcanism—Enlarge (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Thomas Thomopoulos ) Ever since the Voyager mission sent home images of...
- + Modder packs an entire Nintendo Wii into a box the size of a pack of cards—Enlarge / Its creator calls the "Short Stack" the world's smallest scale model replica of the Nintendo Wii (bottom). (credit: James Smith ) ...
- + Roku forcing 2-factor authentication after 2 breaches of 600K accounts—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Everyone with a Roku TV or streaming device will eventually be forced to enable two-factor authenticat...
- + China orders Apple to remove Meta apps after “inflammatory” posts about president—Enlarge / An Apple Store in Shanghai, China, on April 11, 2024. (credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Apple said it co...
- + Crypto influencer guilty of $110M scheme that shut down Mango Markets—Enlarge (credit: apomares | E+ ) A jury has unanimously convicted Avi Eisenberg in the US Department of Justice's first case involvi...
- + This AI-controlled jet fighter has now flown against human pilots—Enlarge / The X-62A VISTA Aircraft flying above Edwards Air Force Base, California. (credit: Kyle Brasier, U.S. Air Force) An AI t...
- + NASA may alter Artemis III to have Starship and Orion dock in low-Earth orbit—Enlarge / This image taken by NASA's Orion spacecraft shows its view just before the vehicle flew behind the Moon in 2022. (credit: NASA) ...
- + Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover—Enlarge / The Tesla Cybertruck. (credit: Tesla) On Monday, we learned that Tesla had suspended customer deliveries of its stainle...
- + Password crackdown leads to more income for Netflix—Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg) Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing helped the streaming service blow past Wall Street’s earnings for...
- + Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track—Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for "VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time." (credit: Microsoft ) ...
- + Rocket Report: Starship could save Mars Sample Return; BE-4s for second Vulcan—Enlarge / A BE-4 engine is moved into position on ULA's second Vulcan rocket. (credit: United Launch Alliance ) Welcome to Edition...
- + Boeing says it will cut SLS workforce “due to external factors”—Enlarge / The SLS rocket is seen on its launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in August 2022. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann) On Thursday se...
- + Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X, study finds—Enlarge / Miami Beach, Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Center hospital. ] (credit: Getty | Jeffrey Greenberg/ ) Since 2...
- + Prime Video looking to fix “extremely sloppy mistakes” in library, report says—Enlarge / Morfydd Clark is Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power . (credit: Amazon Studios) Subscribers lodged th...
- + Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes—Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket ) X's chatbot Grok is supposed to be an AI engine crunching the platform's ...
- + Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’ travertine kitchen tile—Enlarge / Reddit user Kidipadeli75 spotted a fossilized hominin jawbone in his parents' new travertine kitchen tile. (credit: Reddit user Kidipadel...
- + LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards ) On Thursday, Meta unveiled early versions of its Llama 3 open-weights AI model that...
- + Meta’s new $199 Quest 2 price is a steal for the VR-curious—Enlarge / For just $199, you could be having as much fun as this paid model. Meta has announced it's permanently lowering the pric...
- + Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions—Enlarge / Google HQ. (credit: Getty Images ) Google is doing a major re-org of Android, Chrome, and the Google hardware division...
- + SpaceX and Northrop are working on a constellation of spy satellites—Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches a Starlink mission in January 2020. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX is reportedly working with at leas...
- + Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules—Enlarge The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a...
- + LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Password-manager LastPass users were recently targeted by a convincing phishing campaign that used a c...
- + Fallout games continue seeing big player jumps after the TV series’ success—Enlarge / Seeing power armor in the Fallout series inspired many players to jump back into their own suits (and start stockpiling fusion cores). ...
- + Big Tech can’t hoard brainwave data for ad targeting, Colorado law says—Enlarge (credit: PM Images | DigitalVision ) On Wednesday, Colorado expanded the scope of its privacy law initially designed to pr...
- + Chinese EV makers won’t get subsidies from Mexico after US pressure—Enlarge / The Chinese automaker BYD has every other electric vehicle maker worried. (credit: John Keeble/Getty Images) The United S...
- + Delta takes flight: Apple-approved Nintendo emulator is a great iOS option—Enlarge / That is in no way what the Z button looks like or where it goes... Apple's decision earlier this month to open the iOS ...
- + Google’s latest layoffs are in finance and real estate—Enlarge (credit: Sean Gallup | Getty Images ) Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised more layoffs at Google this year, and the company ...
- + The largest marine reptile ever could match blue whales in size—Enlarge (credit: Sergey Krasovskiy ) Blue whales have been considered the largest creatures to ever live on Earth. With a maximum le...
- + The 2024 Mercedes E 350 4Matic is the thriftiest luxury workhorse—Enlarge / The Mercedes-Benz E-Class is the brand's workhorse, covering millions of km a year ferrying German taxi passengers around. (credit: Peter...
- + Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist—(credit: Getty Images) Last October, I received an email with a hell of an opening line: “I fired a nuke at the US Copyright Office th...
- + The hidden story behind one of SpaceX’s wettest and wildest launches—Enlarge / Is that sooty rocket lifting off with the CRS-3 mission in 2014 a reused booster? No, it is not. (credit: SpaceX) Ten yea...
- + All the pieces are in place for the first crew flight of Boeing’s Starliner—Enlarge / Technicians inside United Launch Alliance's Vertical Integration Facility connect Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the top of its Atlas V...
- + This app tries to do what Apple couldn’t: Multiple Mac monitors on Vision Pro—Enlarge / Here it is: two virtual Mac displays in Vision Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple's Vision Pro headset holds the promise to...
- + OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022—Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt "A painting by Grant Wood of an astronaut couple, american gothic style." (cr...
- + Life-threatening rat pee infections reach record levels in NYC—Enlarge / A rat looks for food while on a subway platform at the Columbus Circle - 59th Street station on May 8, 2023, in New York City. (credit: ...
- + Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections—Enlarge (credit: da-kuk/Getty ) Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by plan...
- + Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen—Enlarge / The new, all-electric Atlas. (credit: Boston Dynamics) The humanoid robotics market is starting to heat up, and the c...
- + Feds appoint “AI doomer” to run AI safety at US institute—Enlarge (credit: Bill Oxford | iStock / Getty Images Plus ) The US AI Safety Institute—part of the National Institute of Standards a...
- + Feds appoint “AI doomer” to run US AI safety institute—Enlarge (credit: Bill Oxford | iStock / Getty Images Plus ) The US AI Safety Institute—part of the National Institute of Standards a...
- + Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It's easy to get the impression that Discord chat messages are ephemeral, especially across different ...
- + Bodies found in Neolithic pit were likely victims of ritualistic murder—Enlarge / Three female skeletons found in a Neolithic storage pit in France show signs of ritualistic human sacrifice. (credit: . Beeching/Ludes et...
- + Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°—Enlarge (credit: Frame Studio ) Almost from the start, arguments about mitigating climate change have included an element of cost-be...
- + Tesla asks shareholders to approve Texas move and restore Elon Musk’s $56B pay—Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an opening event for Tesla's Gigafactory on March 22, 2022, in Gruenheide, southeast of Berlin. (credit: Getty Ima...
- + After decades of Mario, how do developers bridge a widening generation gap?—Enlarge / A prototype wonder effect—featuring Mario's head turned into blocks that could be eaten by enemies—didn't make it into the final game. (c...
- + Broadcom says “many” VMware perpetual licenses got support extensions—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) Broadcom CEO Hock Tan this week publicized some concessions aimed at helping customers and partners ease in...
- + Dwarf Fortress’ Adventure Mode brings the sim’s chaotic spirit to CRPGs—Enlarge / See that fortress over there? You can explore it. And then die when someone in your party remembers a tragic incident involving meat and ...
- + Dwarf Fortress’s Adventure Mode brings the sim’s chaotic spirit to CRPGs—Enlarge / See that fortress over there? You can explore it. And then die, when someone in your party remembers a tragic incident involving meat and...
- + A chunk of metal that tore through a Florida home definitely came from the ISS—NASA has confirmed that the object that fell into a Florida home last month was part of a battery pack released from the International Space Station. ...
- + Florida man tells Ars about his encounter with something that fell from space—NASA has confirmed that the object that fell into a Florida home last month was part of a battery pack released from the International Space Station. ...
- + Feds expand investigation into Honda’s automatic emergency braking system—Enlarge / Honda's forward collision warning system has always been sensitive. Now the NHTSA is investigating some Hondas for false-positive automat...
- + Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply—Enlarge Electricity supply is becoming the latest chokepoint to threaten the growth of artificial intelligence, according to leading...
- + EV charging update in Google Maps includes “AI-powered” station info—Enlarge / EV charger status is coming to Google Maps. (credit: Google) Google Maps is making itself friendlier for electric vehicle...
- + Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap—Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinued in 2020. There has never been a soda named "Spaces" that had a cult follow...
- + Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts—Enlarge (credit: Matejmo | Getty Images) Cisco’s Talos security team is warning of a large-scale credential compromise campaign that’...
- + Bogus Botox poisoning outbreak spreads to 9 states, CDC says—A package of counterfeit Botox. (credit: FDA ) At least 19 women across nine US states appear to have been poisoned by bogus injecti...
- + Studies reveal new clues to how tardigrades can survive intense radiation—Enlarge / SEM Micrograph of a tardigrade, more commonly known as a "water bear" or "moss piglet." (credit: Cultura RM Exclusive/Gregory S. Paulson/...
- + ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) Some net neutrality proponents are worried that soon-to-be-approved Federal Communica...
- + So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post—Enlarge (credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Contributor | FilmMagic ) Elon Musk confirmed Monday that X (formerly Twitter) plans to st...
- + Second-biggest black hole in the Milky Way found—Enlarge / The star's orbit, shown here in light, is influenced by the far more massive black hole, indicated by the red orbit. (credit: ESO/L. Cal...
- + EV fast-charging comes to condos and apartments—Enlarge / The Marina Palms condo development in Miami recently added an ADS-TEC ChargeBox DC fast charger for its residents. (credit: ADS-TEC) ...
- + The lines between streaming and cable continue to blur—Enlarge / O.B., aka Ouroboros, in Marvel's Loki show, which streams on Disney+. (credit: Marvel ) Despite promises of new and im...
- + YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chris McGrath ) YouTube is putting third-party ad-blocking apps on notice. An ominous post on the off...
- + Meta’s oversight board to probe subjective policy on AI sex image removals—Enlarge (credit: IAN HOOTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY | Science Photo Library ) Meta continues to slowly adapt Facebook and Instagram po...
- + New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) On Tuesday, the UK government announced a new law targeting the creation of AI-generated sexually ...
- + Russian space chief says new rocket will put Falcon 9 reuse to shame—Enlarge / Vladimir Putin meets with Roscosmos Director General Yuri Borisov on June 30, 2023. (credit: The Kremlin) Russia's once-v...
- + Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem—Enlarge (credit: Joan Cros via Getty ) When Microsoft revealed in January that foreign government hackers had once again breached i...
- + NASA says it needs better ideas on how to return samples from Mars—Enlarge / NASA's existing plan for Mars Sample Return involves a large lander the size of a two-car garage, two helicopters, a two-stage bespoke ro...
- + How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun—I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather fond of our home planet (our wanton carbon emissions notwithstanding). But the ugly truth is that ...
- + Review: Pitch-perfect Renegade Nell is a gem of a series you won’t want to miss—Enlarge / A young prodigal tomboy returns home from war and finds herself framed for murder in Renegade Nell . (credit: Disney+) A...
- + US woman arrested, accused of targeting young boys in $1.7M sextortion scheme—Enlarge (credit: vitapix | E+ ) A 28-year-old Delaware woman, Hadja Kone, was arrested after cops linked her to an international sex...
- + Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors indicted a Nebraska man on charges he perpetrated a cryptojacking scheme that defr...
- + The Pixel 9 reportedly gears up for satellite SOS support—Enlarge / The smaller Pixel 9, with three cameras?! (credit: OnLeaks and 91 mobiles ) Google has been doing a lot of work in An...
- + Judge halts Texas probe into Media Matters’ reporting on X—Enlarge / Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024. ...
- + Song lyrics are getting more repetitive, angrier—Enlarge (credit: Henrik Sorensen ) From ‘80s new wave to ‘90s grunge to the latest pop single, music has changed a lot over the deca...
- + Apple removes the first iOS Game Boy emulator released under new App Store rules—Enlarge / Photos of iGBA that appeared on the App Store before the app was taken down. (credit: https://web.archive.org/web/20240413221558/https:/...
- + Tesla to lay off more than 10 percent of its workers as sales slow—Enlarge / Tesla's Shanghai factory in 2023. (credit: VCG/VCG via Getty Images) Times are starting to get tough for Tesla. The elect...
- + Cybertruck owners allege pedal problem as Tesla suspends deliveries—Enlarge / The Cybertruck remains a divisive vehicle. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Tesla's troubled Cybertruck appears to have hit yet ...
- + Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them—Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021 , ...
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