AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

Benj Edwards 2025-03-13 11:43:00 arstechnica.com On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected...

Meta plans to test and tinker with X’s community notes algorithm

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-13 14:26:00 arstechnica.com Meta also confirmed that it won't be reducing visibility of misleading posts with community notes....

Google has a fix for your broken Chromecast V2 unless you factory reset

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-13 14:39:00 arstechnica.com Google's venerable 2015 Chromecast attempted to self-destruct earlier this week, upsetting a huge number of...

What happens when DEI becomes DOA in the aerospace industry?

Eric Berger 2025-03-13 15:20:00 arstechnica.com Last month a nonprofit that recognizes exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities with space and...

OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-13 12:20:00 arstechnica.com OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle...

Epic Games is addressing one of Windows-on-Arm’s last big app compatibility gaps

Andrew Cunningham 2025-03-13 11:00:00 arstechnica.com Using a Windows PC with an Arm-based Snapdragon processor in it feels a lot like...

Google’s Gemma 3 is an open source, single-GPU AI with a 128K context window

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-12 13:15:00 arstechnica.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU13FN2Xpyw Google says Gemma 3 is the "world’s best single-accelerator model." However, not all versions...

Study: Hand clapping is akin to a Helmholtz resonator

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-03-12 14:06:00 arstechnica.com Hand clapping is ubiquitous behavior for humans across time and cultures, serving many different purposes:...

D-Wave quantum annealers solve problems classical algorithms struggle with

John Timmer 2025-03-12 16:36:00 arstechnica.com In any case, most of these claims have involved quantum computers that weren't solving any...

EPA accused of faking criminal investigation to claw back climate funds

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-12 17:21:00 arstechnica.com Citibank has until March 15 to provide more information on orders to freeze funding. More...

New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will pick up where Pat Gelsinger left off

Andrew Cunningham 2025-03-12 18:12:00 arstechnica.com After a little over three months, Intel has a new CEO to replace ousted former...

FTC can’t afford to fight Amazon’s allegedly deceptive sign-ups after DOGE cuts

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-12 14:33:00 arstechnica.com The Federal Trade Commission is moving to push back a trial set to determine if...

Elon Musk claims bad actors in Ukraine are behind “massive“ X cyberattack

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-11 09:50:00 arstechnica.com Elon Musk is now claiming that bad actors in Ukraine are behind an alleged cyberattack...

How Trump could potentially claw back CHIPS funding

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-11 12:00:00 arstechnica.com Trump could possibly come for those funds, but the CHIPS Act's claw-back provisions "are only...

BEVs are better than combustion: The 2025 BMW i4 xDrive40 review

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-03-11 13:47:00 arstechnica.com But it's not really fair to compare yesterday's 430i with this i4 xDrive40; with...

Leaked GeForce RTX 5060 and 5050 specs suggest Nvidia will keep playing it safe

Andrew Cunningham 2025-03-11 16:02:00 arstechnica.com Nvidia has launched all of the GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs that it announced at CES,...

Despite everything, US EV sales are up 28% this year

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-03-11 20:01:00 arstechnica.com With all the announcements from automakers planning for more gasoline and hybrid cars in...

X’s globe-trotting defense of ads on Nazi posts violates TOS, Media Matters says

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-11 16:59:00 arstechnica.com "X conceded that depending on what content a user follows and how long they’ve had...

Telecom tells employees they won’t get bonuses if they don’t follow RTO policy

Scharon Harding 2025-03-11 12:44:00 arstechnica.com Adding to the complexity and uncertainty around Vodafone’s newly strict RTO enforcement are claims of...

Apple M4 MacBook Air review: I have no notes

Andrew Cunningham 2025-03-11 09:00:00 arstechnica.com Performance and power: An M4, but fanless Apple's M4 is a thoroughly known quantity by...

Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

Scharon Harding 2025-03-10 14:05:00 arstechnica.com HP, along with other printer brands, is infamous for issuing firmware updates that brick already-purchased...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the new leader of Relativity Space

Eric Berger 2025-03-10 17:05:00 arstechnica.com Another Silicon Valley investor is getting into the rocket business. Former Google chief executive Eric...

What the EPA’s “endangerment finding” is and why it’s being challenged

John Timmer 2025-03-10 18:11:00 arstechnica.com A document that was first issued in 2009 would seem an unlikely candidate for making...

NCI employees can’t publish information on these topics without special approval

Annie Waldman and Lisa Song, ProPublica 2025-03-10 19:07:00 arstechnica.com This story was originally published by ProPublica. Employees at the National...