Amazon facing strike threats as Senate report details hidden widespread injuries

Ashley Belanger 2024-12-16 12:43:00 arstechnica.com In his report, Sanders noted that Amazon is much too big to be held accountable ...

Hackers seek ransom after getting SSNs, banking info from state gov’t portal

Jon Brodkin 2024-12-16 13:48:00 arstechnica.com Hackers trying to extort the Rhode Island government infiltrated the state's public benefits system, causing ...

Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matter

Beth Mole 2024-12-16 17:23:00 arstechnica.com Ars has reached out to the lead author, Megan Liu, but has not received a ...

In IT? Need cash? Cybersecurity whistleblowers are earning big payouts.

Nate Anderson 2024-12-16 17:38:00 arstechnica.com Matthew Decker is the former chief information officer for Penn State University’s Applied Research Laboratory. ...

PS Placeable: The adorable mod that turns a PlayStation Portable into a console

Samuel Axon 2024-12-16 14:52:00 arstechnica.com When Sony launched the PlayStation Portable almost exactly 20 years ago, the value proposition was ...

Buying a TV in 2025? Expect lower prices, more ads, and an OS war.

Scharon Harding 2024-12-16 07:00:00 arstechnica.com While Ars readers may be more guarded about Google having an insider look at their ...

Rocket Report: Chinese national flies drone near Falcon 9, Trouble down under

Eric Berger 2024-12-13 06:30:00 arstechnica.com But it's not clear why ... Founded in early 2022 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...

Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws

Benj Edwards 2024-12-13 09:12:00 arstechnica.com On Wednesday, a video from OpenAI's newly launched Sora AI video generator went viral on ...

great sims make for a compelling experience

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2024-12-13 11:57:00 arstechnica.com Accessible racing is the name of the game, so the first four (out of ...

Don’t use crypto to cheat on taxes: Bitcoin bro gets 2 years

Ashley Belanger 2024-12-13 12:02:00 arstechnica.com A bitcoin investor who went to increasingly great lengths to hide $1 million in cryptocurrency ...

Elon Musk slams SEC as agency threatens charges in Twitter stock probe

Jon Brodkin 2024-12-13 12:20:00 arstechnica.com An SEC spokesperson told Ars today that the commission's policy is "to conduct investigations on ...

Werner Herzog muses on mysteries of the brain in Theater of Thought

Jennifer Ouellette 2024-12-13 13:12:00 arstechnica.com That mind is partly revealed through Herzog's running narration, such as when he muses about ...

Google steps into “extended reality” once again with Android XR

Kevin Purdy 2024-12-12 13:18:00 arstechnica.com Citing "years of investment in AI, AR, and VR," Google is stepping into the augmented ...

Report: AT&T, Verizon aren’t notifying most victims of Chinese call-records hack

Jon Brodkin 2024-12-12 15:50:00 arstechnica.com Telecom companies aren't required to notify customers about every breach. A Federal Communications Commission order ...

Critical WordPress plugin vulnerability under active exploit threatens thousands

Dan Goodin 2024-12-12 16:00:00 arstechnica.com Thousands of sites running WordPress remain unpatched against a critical security flaw in a widely ...

Are LLMs capable of non-verbal reasoning?

Kyle Orland 2024-12-12 16:55:00 arstechnica.com Large language models have found great success so far by using their transformer architecture to effectively predict the ...

The optical disc onslaught continues, with LG quitting Blu-ray players

Scharon Harding 2024-12-12 13:38:00 arstechnica.com Speaking of things staying the same, Blu-rays and DVDs also won’t have their content altered ...

YouTube TV is hiking prices again after denying “erroneous” report days ago

Kevin Purdy 2024-12-12 11:03:00 arstechnica.com YouTube TV, now one of the country's leading cable (or cable-ish) television providers, is starting ...

NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars

Eric Berger 2024-12-11 12:44:00 arstechnica.com Eleven months after the Ingenuity helicopter made its final flight on Mars, engineers and scientists ...

The Dodge Charger is an EV that sounds like a V8

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2024-12-12 00:01:00 arstechnica.com PHOENIX—Dodge gave its development team a relatively simple brief for the new Charger: It ...

iOS 18.2, macOS 15.2 updates arrive today with image and emoji generation

Andrew Cunningham 2024-12-11 13:22:00 arstechnica.com Apple has announced that it will be releasing the iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS ...

TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads

Scharon Harding 2024-12-11 16:04:00 arstechnica.com Advertising has become a focal point of TV software. We’re seeing companies that sell TV ...

Google goes “agentic” with Gemini 2.0’s ambitious AI agent features

Benj Edwards 2024-12-11 14:23:00 arstechnica.com On Wednesday, Google unveiled Gemini 2.0, the next generation of its AI-model family, starting with ...