Trump administration’s blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher

Vittoria Elliott, wired.com 2025-03-23 07:05:00 arstechnica.com Giulio Coppi, a senior humanitarian officer at the nonprofit Access Now who has researched ...

We probably inherited our joints from… a fish

Elizabeth Rayne 2025-03-21 10:31:00 arstechnica.com What do we have in common with fish, besides being vertebrates? The types of joints ...

CEO of AI ad-tech firm pledging “world free of fraud” sentenced for fraud

Kevin Purdy 2025-03-21 12:27:00 arstechnica.com A page from Kubient's July 2020 prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO), making a ...

Anthropic’s new AI search feature digs through the web for answers

Benj Edwards 2025-03-21 15:08:00 arstechnica.com Caution over citations and sources Claude users should be warned that large language models (LLMs) ...

Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-21 15:52:00 arstechnica.com Spotted by TorrentFreak, AGCOM Commissioner Massimiliano Capitanio took to LinkedIn to celebrate the ruling, as ...

Boeing will build the US Air Force’s next air superiority fighter

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-03-21 12:35:00 arstechnica.com Today, it emerged that Boeing has won its bid to supply the United States ...

Rocket Report: ULA confirms cause of booster anomaly; Crew-10 launch on tap

Rocket Report: Falcon 9 may smash reuse record; Relativity roving to Texas?

Eric Berger 2025-03-21 07:00:00 arstechnica.com Welcome to Edition 7.36 of the Rocket Report! Well, after nine months, NASA astronauts Butch ...

The early 2000s capacitor plague is probably not just a stolen recipe

Kevin Purdy 2025-03-20 14:04:00 arstechnica.com It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in ...

Cybertrucks’ faulty trim prompts biggest recall yet, stokes Tesla investor panic

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-20 14:46:00 arstechnica.com Every Tesla Cybertruck ever sold is being recalled so Tesla can fix an exterior panel ...

Racer with paraplegia successfully test drives Corvette with hand controls

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-03-20 15:01:00 arstechnica.com Able-bodied co-driver Milner will use the Corvette GT3.R's regular pedals when he drives, with ...

Apple loses $1B a year on prestigious, minimally viewed Apple TV+: report

Scharon Harding 2025-03-20 17:32:00 arstechnica.com The Apple TV+ streaming service “is losing more than $1 billion annually,” according to The ...

Apple reportedly planning executive shake-up to address Siri delays

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-20 15:19:00 arstechnica.com The Vision Pro was not exactly a smash hit for Apple, but no one expected ...

Meager 8GB of RAM forces Pixel 9a to run “extra extra small” Gemini AI

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-19 13:06:00 arstechnica.com To make Gemini Nano run well on a device with 8GB of RAM, Google had ...

Apple and Google in the hot seat as European regulators ignore Trump warnings

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-19 16:09:00 arstechnica.com The European Commission is not backing down from efforts to rein in Big Tech. In ...

Brains of parrots, unlike songbirds, use human-like vocal control

John Timmer 2025-03-19 16:44:00 arstechnica.com Due to past work, we've already identified the brain structure that controls the activity of ...

HP avoids monetary damages over bricked printers in class-action settlement

Scharon Harding 2025-03-19 17:12:00 arstechnica.com HP also now provides disclaimers on the product pages for most of the printers that ...

Hints grow stronger that dark energy changes over time

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-03-19 18:00:00 arstechnica.com In its earliest days, the Universe was a hot, dense soup of subatomic particles, including ...

Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average

Benj Edwards 2025-03-19 18:12:00 arstechnica.com It's worth clarifying that AI models did not generate the images used in the study. ...

Plex ups its price for first time in a decade, changes remote-streaming access

Kevin Purdy 2025-03-19 14:32:00 arstechnica.com Plex is a bit hard to explain these days. Even if you don't know its ...

Volvo reconstructs crashes with AI in virtual worlds to make safer cars

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-03-19 11:32:00 arstechnica.com "One thing is that we develop this in-house now, so instead of relying on ...

FCC to get Republican majority and plans to “delete” as many rules as possible

Jon Brodkin 2025-03-18 15:30:00 arstechnica.com By contrast, then-President Joe Biden waited nine months to choose a Democratic nominee in 2021. ...

Gemini gets new coding and writing tools, plus AI-generated “podcasts”

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-18 15:40:00 arstechnica.com On the heels of its release of new Gemini models last week, Google has announced ...

Furious at the FCC, Arkansas jail cancels inmate phone calls rather than lower rates

Nate Anderson 2025-03-18 16:08:00 arstechnica.com If "the Federal Communications Commission reverses their adverse regulations," Montgomery said, "the Baxter County Sheriff's ...

Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded?

Eric Berger 2025-03-18 19:56:00 arstechnica.com It looked like the final scene of a movie, the denouement of a long adventure ...

Nvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers”

Benj Edwards 2025-03-18 17:19:00 arstechnica.com During Tuesday's Nvidia GTX keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two "personal AI supercomputers" called DGX ...