The AI slop drops right from the top, as Trump posts vulgar deepfake of opponents
AI poses an obvious danger to millennia-long human fight to find the truth. Large language...
Trump’s CDC brings back “monkeypox” disease name despite racist connotation
Without explanation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Trump administration has...
Critics slam OpenAI’s parental controls while users rage, “Treat us like adults”
As OpenAI tells it, the company has been consistently rolling out safety updates ever since...
Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, the backbone of network security, fall to physical attacks
In the age of cloud computing, protections baked into chips from Intel, AMD, and others...
With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”
With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate...
SpaceX has a few tricks up its sleeve for the last Starship flight of the year
On its surface, the flight plan for SpaceX’s next Starship flight looks a lot like...
iOS 26.0.1, macOS 26.0.1 updates fix install bugs, new phone problems, and more
Now that iOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and Apple’s other big software updates for the...
California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted
On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act into...
Is the “million-year-old” skull from China a Denisovan or something else?
A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be...
Burnout and Elon Musk’s politics spark exodus from senior xAI, Tesla staff
Elon Musk’s business empire has been hit by a wave of senior departures over the...
The SUV that saved Porsche goes electric, and the tech is interesting
Porsche provided flights from Washington to Leipzig and accommodation so Ars could be briefed on...
Scientists unlock secret to Venus flytrap’s hair-trigger response
To trap its prey, the Venus flytrap sends rapid electrical impulses, which are generated in...
Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million
Google owner Alphabet today agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit that President...
Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks
On Monday, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, a new AI language model the company calls...
EA will be a very different company under private ownership
This morning’s announcement that EA plans to sell itself to a consortium of private equity...