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 ...
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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 ...
Google Chrome may soon use “AI” to replace compromised passwords
Kevin Purdy 2025-02-11 14:01:00 arstechnica.com Google's Chrome browser might soon get a useful security upgrade: detecting passwords used in data ...
iOS 18.3.1 update fixes security flaw used in “extremely sophisticated attack”
Andrew Cunningham 2025-02-11 10:17:00 arstechnica.com Apple has released new security fixes for iPhones and iPads in the form of iOS ...
The Ranger XP Kinetic is the ultimate electric UTV—at a high price
Tim Stevens 2025-02-11 07:00:00 arstechnica.com Utility terrain vehicles, also known as side-by-sides, are multi-seat off-road vehicles used for work or ...
Citing EV “rollercoaster” in US, BMW invests in internal combustion
Kana Inagaki and Patricia Nilsson , Financial Times 2025-02-10 10:31:00 arstechnica.com BMW has pledged to continue investing in combustion engine ...
Tesla turns to Texas to test its autonomous “Cybercab”
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-02-10 13:13:00 arstechnica.com If you live or drive in Austin, Texas, you might start seeing some new-looking ...
OpenAI’s secret weapon against Nvidia dependence takes shape
Benj Edwards 2025-02-10 16:00:00 arstechnica.com A large investment The path to creating a custom AI chip requires substantial resources. Industry ...
Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again
Andrew Cunningham 2025-02-10 13:45:00 arstechnica.com The 12VHPWR and 12V-2x6 connectors are both designed to solve a real problem: delivering hundreds ...
CenturyLink nightmares: Users keep asking Ars for help with multi-month outages
Jon Brodkin 2025-02-10 06:30:00 arstechnica.com Separately, a CenturyLink customer named David Stromberg in Bellevue, Washington, told us that his phone ...
Feds putting the kibosh on national EV charging program
Aarian Marshall, wired.com 2025-02-08 07:01:00 arstechnica.com “There is no legal basis for funds that have been apportioned to states to ...
The EV transition hits some snags at Porsche and Audi
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-02-07 12:47:00 arstechnica.com Now Audi has gone a little further, abandoning its almost-new nomenclature in the process. ...
UK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov’t spying worldwide, reports say
Jon Brodkin 2025-02-07 13:40:00 arstechnica.com The United Kingdom issued a secret order requiring Apple to create a backdoor for government ...
Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts
Eric Berger 2025-02-07 17:07:00 arstechnica.com The primary contractor for the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing, is preparing for the possibility ...
The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games
Samuel Axon 2025-02-07 18:02:00 arstechnica.com Despite all this, The Sims is worth a look It's telling that in a market ...
DOGE can’t use student loan data to dismantle the Education Dept., lawsuit says
Ashley Belanger 2025-02-07 14:23:00 arstechnica.com Microsoft declined to comment, but allegedly the DOGE employees are "using AI software accessed through ...
Report: iPhone SE could shed its 10-year-old design “as early as next week”
Andrew Cunningham 2025-02-07 08:18:00 arstechnica.com Gurman suggests that Apple could raise the $429 starting price of the new iPhone SE ...
Hugging Face clones OpenAI’s Deep Research in 24 hours
Benj Edwards 2025-02-05 15:55:00 arstechnica.com On Tuesday, Hugging Face researchers released an open source AI research agent called "Open Deep ...
The UK got rid of coal—where’s it going next?
Gordon Feller 2025-02-06 15:20:00 arstechnica.com With the closure of its last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, on September 30, 2024, the ...
DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers
Dan Goodin 2025-02-06 17:06:00 arstechnica.com Thomas Reed, staff product manager for Mac endpoint detection and response at security firm Huntress, ...
Parrots struggle when told to do something other than mimic their peers
Elizabeth Rayne 2025-02-06 14:24:00 arstechnica.com There have been many studies on the capability of non-human animals to mimic transitive actions—actions ...
Ransomware payments declined in 2024 despite massive. well-known hacks
Lily Hay Newman, wired.com 2025-02-06 09:21:00 arstechnica.com While the decline in payments during the second half of 2024 is significant ...
7-Zip 0-day was exploited in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine
Dan Goodin 2025-02-05 16:05:00 arstechnica.com Researchers said they recently discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiving utility that was ...
AMD promises “mainstream” 4K gaming with next-gen GPUs as current-gen GPU sales tank
Andrew Cunningham 2025-02-05 16:28:00 arstechnica.com AMD announced its fourth-quarter earnings yesterday, and the numbers were mostly rosy: $7.7 billion in ...
Chat, are you ready to go to space with NASA?
Eric Berger 2025-02-05 16:47:00 arstechnica.com The US space agency said Wednesday it will host a live Twitch stream from the ...
Judge suggests temporary order blocking DOGE from Treasury records
Ashley Belanger 2025-02-05 17:31:00 arstechnica.com Further, Humphreys explained that DOGE—which functions as part of the executive office—does not have access, ...