OpenAI board considers special voting powers to prevent Elon Musk takeover
Jon Brodkin 2025-02-18 12:31:00 arstechnica.com Poison pill another option OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit in 2015 and created an ...
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Microsoft warns that the powerful XCSSET macOS malware is back with new tricks
Dan Goodin 2025-02-18 16:04:00 arstechnica.com “These enhanced features add to this malware family’s previously known capabilities, like targeting digital wallets, ...
3D map of exoplanet atmosphere shows wacky climate
Jennifer Ouellette 2025-02-18 14:04:00 arstechnica.com Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten ...
Review: Asus’ ROG Flow Z13 tablet takes the asterisk off integrated GPUs
Kevin Purdy 2025-02-18 09:00:00 arstechnica.com On the right side, a USB-A port and headphone jack form a nostalgia nook at ...
X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages
Kevin Purdy 2025-02-17 10:49:00 arstechnica.com X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, is seemingly blocking links to Signal, the ...
Turning the Moon into a fuel depot will take a lot of power
John Timmer 2025-02-17 16:33:00 arstechnica.com But, of course, you need to make the fuel there in the first place. The ...
Privacy-problematic DeepSeek pulled from app stores in South Korea
Lee Hutchinson 2025-02-17 11:31:00 arstechnica.com In a media briefing held Monday, the South Korean Personal Information Protection Commission indicated that ...
Despite court orders, climate and energy programs stalled by Trump freeze
Marianne Lavelle, Dylan Baddour, Lisa Sorg, and Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News 2025-02-17 11:05:00 arstechnica.com “The executive does not have ...
How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
Kyle Orland 2025-02-15 06:45:00 arstechnica.com For years, Maciej "Groobo" Maselewski stood as the undisputed champion of Diablo speedrunning. His 3-minute, 12-second ...
DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone
Ashley Belanger 2025-02-14 11:24:00 arstechnica.com "An official website of the United States government," reads small text atop the Department of ...
Man offers to buy city dump in last-ditch effort to recover $800M in bitcoins
Ashley Belanger 2025-02-14 14:31:00 arstechnica.com Howells told The Times that he envisions cleaning up the site and turning it into ...
Hyundai’s NACS adapter for EVs will be free to all existing owners
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-02-14 18:54:00 arstechnica.com Hyundai Ioniq 5s with NACS (J3400) ports, as opposed to the CCS1 style, are ...
No penalties even when deputies share a woman’s nudes after an illegal phone search
Nate Anderson 2025-02-14 16:03:00 arstechnica.com Carpenter, for his part, insisted that he was never willing to give the flash drive ...
What we know about AMD and Nvidia’s imminent midrange GPU launches
Andrew Cunningham 2025-02-14 12:01:00 arstechnica.com The GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 are both very fast graphics cards—if you can look ...
Rocket Report: A blue mood at Blue; Stoke Space fires a shot over the bow
Eric Berger 2025-02-14 07:00:00 arstechnica.com China taps into commercial space for station missions. China will launch a pair of low-cost ...
Avowed review: Wait, are we the baddies?
Kyle Orland 2025-02-13 09:00:00 arstechnica.com Avowed's quests almost all boil down to venturing from a city to some far-off spot ...
Citing too much “bureaucracy,” Blue Origin to cut 10 percent of its workforce
Eric Berger 2025-02-13 10:41:00 arstechnica.com Making difficult decisions With the cuts, Blue Origin will seek to trim its management ranks. ...
Wheel of Time S3 trailer tees us up for Last Battle
Jennifer Ouellette 2025-02-13 13:02:00 arstechnica.com After defeating Ishamael, one of the most powerful of the Forsaken, at the end of ...
Apple teases launch for “the newest member of the family” on February 19
Andrew Cunningham 2025-02-13 13:12:00 arstechnica.com Big news for people who prefer their product announcements to be pre-announced: Apple CEO Tim ...
Streaming used to make stuff networks wouldn’t. Now it wants safer bets.
Scharon Harding 2025-02-13 15:08:00 arstechnica.com Meanwhile, TVs aren’t watched the way they used to be. Social media and YouTube have ...
Sam Altman lays out roadmap for OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model
Benj Edwards 2025-02-13 11:08:00 arstechnica.com In March 2024, for example, Altman said in an interview with Lex Friedman that the ...
Apple TV+ crosses enemy lines, will be available as an Android app starting today
Andrew Cunningham 2025-02-12 15:00:00 arstechnica.com Apple is also adding the ability to subscribe to Apple TV+ through both the Android ...
After Putin sacked Russia’s space chief, the rumor mill is running red-hot
Eric Berger 2025-02-12 08:36:00 arstechnica.com None of this can be confirmed, of course. It is also possible that Borisov was ...
An update on Micro LED
Scharon Harding 2025-02-12 07:00:00 arstechnica.com While Micro LED could address some of OLED's limitations, it doesn't have the recognition of ...
US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit
Leila Abboud and Melissa Heikkilä, Financial Times 2025-02-11 09:59:00 arstechnica.com On Tuesday, Vance told the assembled leaders the US would ...
Tariffs will “blow a hole” in the US auto industry, says Ford CEO
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-02-11 17:33:00 arstechnica.com The US has had to pause some of these new tariffs almost immediately, and ...