DeepSeek panic triggers tech stock sell-off as Chinese AI tops App Store

Benj Edwards 2025-01-27 11:29:00 arstechnica.com It suddenly seemed to many observers on social media that American tech companies like OpenAI ...

Jeep’s first battery EV is not what we expected: the 2024 Wagoneer S

Michael Teo Van Runkle 2025-01-27 00:01:00 arstechnica.com "On the exterior design portion, the aerodynamic drag is our biggest contributor," Galante ...

Researchers optimize simulations of molecules on quantum computers

John Timmer 2025-01-24 10:51:00 arstechnica.com The net result is a much faster operation involving far fewer gates. That's important because ...

ISP failed to comply with New York’s $15 broadband law—until Ars got involved

Jon Brodkin 2025-01-24 11:42:00 arstechnica.com "Our materials have been updated, including all internal documents and trainings, in addition to our ...

Nvidia starts to wind down support for old GPUs, including the long-lived GTX 1060

Andrew Cunningham 2025-01-24 17:13:00 arstechnica.com Nvidia is launching the first volley of RTX 50-series GPUs based on its new Blackwell ...

Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-01-24 13:02:00 arstechnica.com For his analysis, Barthelemy chose to represent chess as a decision tree in which each ...

600 kW fast-charging pitstops are coming to Formula E

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-01-23 08:25:00 arstechnica.com "Equally as important to the strategy of when to take pit boost is the ...

Trump’s FCC chair gets to work on punishing TV news stations accused of bias

Jon Brodkin 2025-01-23 11:52:00 arstechnica.com Carr has made it clear that he wants the FCC to punish news broadcasters that ...

All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work—ideally within 30 days

Ashley Belanger 2025-01-23 16:28:00 arstechnica.com Exceptions may be granted Ezell's memo expanded criticism of the Biden administration's approach to remote ...

Way more game makers are working on PC titles than ever, survey says

Kyle Orland 2025-01-23 18:00:00 arstechnica.com Four out of five game developers are currently working on a project for the PC, ...

Backdoor slips into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets

Backdoor infecting VPNs used “magic packets” for stealth and security

Dan Goodin 2025-01-23 18:42:00 arstechnica.com When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to ...

OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can operate your computer

Benj Edwards 2025-01-23 17:24:00 arstechnica.com While it's working, Operator shows a miniature browser window of its actions. However, the technology ...

Court rules FBI’s warrantless searches violated Fourth Amendment

Ashley Belanger 2025-01-23 12:50:00 arstechnica.com "Certainly, the Court can imagine situations where obtaining a warrant might frustrate the purpose of ...

UK opens probe into Google’s and Apple’s mobile platforms

Tim Bradshaw and Suzi Ring, Financial Times 2025-01-23 09:29:00 arstechnica.com Last week, the CMA opened its first such case, reviewing ...

Wine 10.0 brings Arm Windows apps to Linux, still is not an emulator

Andrew Cunningham 2025-01-22 15:25:00 arstechnica.com The open source Wine project—sometimes stylized WINE, for Wine Is Not an Emulator—has become an ...

Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027

Benj Edwards 2025-01-22 15:33:00 arstechnica.com He then shared his concerns about how human-level AI models and robotics that are capable ...

Reddit won’t interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans

Scharon Harding 2025-01-22 15:59:00 arstechnica.com Reddit is staying out of the current revolt against social media website X and, to ...

NASA moves swiftly to end DEI programs, ask employees to “report” violations

Eric Berger 2025-01-22 18:04:00 arstechnica.com NASA's acting administrator is moving swiftly to remove diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility—or DEIA—programs from ...

Apple must face suit over alleged policy of underpaying female workers

Ashley Belanger 2025-01-22 16:16:00 arstechnica.com While some of Apple's defense was deemed "demonstrably inaccurate" and most of its arguments "insufficient," ...

The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes

Dan Goodin 2025-01-22 10:10:00 arstechnica.com We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year ...

Google increases investment in Anthropic by another $1 billion

George Hammond, Madhumita Murgia, and Arash Massoudi, Financial Times 2025-01-22 09:19:00 arstechnica.com The close relationships between AI start-ups and their ...

Satellite firm bucks miniaturization trend, aims to build big for big rockets

Eric Berger 2025-01-21 13:04:00 arstechnica.com Although the price of this satellite bus is proprietary, various estimates place the cost at ...

Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download

Benj Edwards 2025-01-21 13:28:00 arstechnica.com Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra ...

New year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent

Scharon Harding 2025-01-21 17:20:00 arstechnica.com Today Netflix, the biggest streaming service based on subscriber count, announced that it will increase ...