Tag: Ars Technica

Ryan Whitwam 2025-05-01 16:31:00 arstechnica.com The rapid proliferation of AI chatbots has made it difficult to know which models are ...

Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots

Ryan Whitwam 2025-05-01 13:01:00 arstechnica.com Google has built an enormously successful business around the idea of putting ads in search ...

Microsoft raises prices on Xbox hardware, says “some” holiday games will be $80

Kyle Orland 2025-05-01 09:17:00 arstechnica.com Microsoft is increasing the recommended asking price of Xbox hardware and accessories worldwide starting today ...

Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi

Lily Hay Newman and Andy Greenberg, WIRED.com 2025-04-30 13:52:00 arstechnica.com Oligo also notes that many of the vulnerable devices have ...

Fortnite will return to iOS as court slams Apple’s “interference“ and ”cover-up“

Kyle Orland 2025-04-30 20:19:00 arstechnica.com In a statement provided to Ars Technica, an Apple spokesperson said, "We strongly disagree with ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid

Stephen Clark 2025-04-30 23:18:00 arstechnica.com An illustration depicts a NASA spacecraft approaching the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. Though there are no ...

DNA links modern pueblo dwellers to Chaco Canyon people

John Timmer 2025-04-30 17:28:00 arstechnica.com A thousand years ago, the people living in Chaco Canyon were building massive structures of ...

Sundar Pichai says DOJ demands are a “de facto” spin-off of Google search

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-30 14:49:00 arstechnica.com The Department of Justice (DOJ) rested its case in Google's search remedy trial earlier this ...

Nintendo imposes new limits on sharing for digital Switch games

Kyle Orland 2025-04-30 12:44:00 arstechnica.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwyh74MXXY A March video explaining the new Virtual Game Card system that launched via system ...

Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-04-30 09:08:00 arstechnica.com WASHINGTON—Here in DC, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will meet today to discuss ...

Google: Governments are using zero-day hacks more than ever

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-29 12:53:00 arstechnica.com Governments hacking enterprise A few years ago, zero-day attacks almost exclusively targeted end users. In ...

Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen

Stephen Clark 2025-04-29 15:10:00 arstechnica.com There are several European launchers in operation or development—Arianespace's Vega, Isar Aerospace's Spectrum, and Rocket ...

OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT a sycophantic mess

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-29 17:15:00 arstechnica.com In search of good vibes OpenAI, along with competitors like Google and Anthropic, is trying ...

Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance

Andrew Cunningham 2025-04-29 18:13:00 arstechnica.com Intel's oddball Core Ultra 200V laptop chips—codenamed Lunar Lake—will apparently be a one-off experiment, not ...

FCC urges courts to ignore 5th Circuit ruling that agency can’t issue fines

Jon Brodkin 2025-04-29 15:25:00 arstechnica.com "The Fifth Circuit concluded that the FCC's enforcement proceeding leading to a monetary forfeiture order ...

Physics of the perfect cacio e pepe sauce

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-04-29 11:42:00 arstechnica.com Terlizzi and his fellow author are all living abroad and frequently meet for dinner. Cacio ...

AI-generated code could be a disaster for the software supply chain. Here’s why.

Dan Goodin 2025-04-29 07:15:00 arstechnica.com In AI, hallucinations occur when an LLM produces outputs that are factually incorrect, nonsensical, or ...

What’s it like to be 70 years old in space? “All those little aches and pains heal up.”

Eric Berger 2025-04-28 16:29:00 arstechnica.com Not many people celebrate their birthday by burning a fiery arc through the atmosphere, pulling ...

ChatGPT goes shopping with new product-browsing feature

Benj Edwards 2025-04-28 18:04:00 arstechnica.com On Thursday, OpenAI announced the addition of shopping features to ChatGPT Search. The new feature ...

Spain is about to face the challenge of a “black start”

John Timmer 2025-04-28 18:27:00 arstechnica.com Local conditions While the grids in Spain and Portugal are connected to each other, they ...

Trump’s hasty Take It Down Act has “gaping flaws” that threaten encryption

Ashley Belanger 2025-04-28 17:09:00 arstechnica.com While the tech law is expected to achieve the rare feat of getting through Congress ...

OnePlus lowers Watch 3 price by $150, promises refunds for early buyers

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-28 11:42:00 arstechnica.com Things are still uncertain, but OnePlus claims to have made some adjustments to its supply ...

Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark

Lee Hutchinson 2025-04-28 10:09:00 arstechnica.com National grid operators in Spain and Portugal confirm that a massive electrical blackout has hit ...

iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years

Dan Goodin 2025-04-28 07:00:00 arstechnica.com All three of the ChoiceJacking techniques defeat Android juice-jacking mitigations. One of them also works ...

In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource

April 26, 2025