“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

Scharon Harding 2025-03-17 15:34:00 arstechnica.com Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS are already subject to video ...

Windows 11 updates are accidentally getting rid of Copilot, at least for now

Andrew Cunningham 2025-03-17 13:56:00 arstechnica.com Microsoft's Windows updates over the last couple of years have mostly been focused on adding ...

Alphabet spins off laser-based Internet backbone provider Taara

Stephen Morris, Financial Times 2025-03-17 09:27:00 arstechnica.com Krishnaswamy, Taara’s general manager, says the next stage of development is a tiny ...

Old Bolt, new tricks: Making an EV into a backup power station with an inverter

Kevin Purdy 2025-03-17 07:00:00 arstechnica.com That night, I plugged in the inverter, turned on the Bolt, flipped on the inverter, ...

Nearly two years after its radical pivot, Fidelity slashes Relativity’s valuation

To avoid the Panama Canal, Relativity Space may move some operations to Texas

Eric Berger 2025-03-14 13:51:00 arstechnica.com Although Baytown does not have any historical affinity with aerospace, its location on the water ...

Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected—and why it’s a problem

Kyle Orland 2025-03-15 06:00:00 arstechnica.com A sample result from the DSP sample test program. Credit: Allan Cecil A sample result ...

For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids

Victoria Uwemedimo and Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine 2025-03-15 07:07:00 arstechnica.com At the same time, in many African countries, solar power now ...

The same day Trump bought a Tesla, automaker moved to disrupt trade war

Ashley Belanger 2025-03-14 14:20:00 arstechnica.com Elon Musk's Tesla is waving a red flag, warning that Donald Trump's trade war risks ...

RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats

Andrew Cunningham 2025-03-14 14:40:00 arstechnica.com One of the best mostly invisible updates in iOS 18 was Apple's decision to finally ...

Crew-10 launches, finally clearing the way for Butch and Suni to fly home

Eric Berger 2025-03-14 20:15:00 arstechnica.com A Falcon 9 rocket launched four astronauts safely into orbit on Friday evening, marking the ...

2025 iPad Air hands-on: Why mess with a good thing?

Samuel Axon 2025-03-14 18:14:00 arstechnica.com There’s not much new in Apple’s latest refresh of the iPad Air, so there’s not ...

Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s hidden motives

Benj Edwards 2025-03-14 16:03:00 arstechnica.com In a new paper published Thursday titled "Auditing language models for hidden objectives," Anthropic researchers ...

Apple’s $349 iPad 11 is missing a lot, but it’s still all the iPad most people need

Andrew Cunningham 2025-03-14 06:30:00 arstechnica.com A Touch ID fingerprint reader is embedded in the power button; the headphone jack is ...

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

Stephen Clark 2025-03-14 08:09:00 arstechnica.com Welcome to Edition 7.35 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX's steamroller is still rolling, but for ...

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: ...