Dissolving circuit boards in water sounds better than shredding and burning July 31, 2023 They're easier to recycle, and chips come right off. Will they take off? https://bit.ly/3ODoI96 Read more
Arizona law school embraces ChatGPT use in student applications July 31, 2023 School's embrace of AI comes as others clamp down on tech-assisted applications. https://bit.ly/3QnF46S Read more
Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it July 29, 2023 "We're seeing more people coming back daily than I'd expected," Zuckerberg said. https://bit.ly/43O2DJh Read more
US senator blasts Microsoft for “negligent cybersecurity practices” July 28, 2023 Rebuke follows recent breach that exposed email accounts of US federal officials. https://bit.ly/3Khm1aA Read more
Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android July 27, 2023 OpenAI brings the popular AI language model to an official Android client app. https://bit.ly/3OvGRW3 Read more
How we host Ars Technica in the cloud, part two: The software July 26, 2023 A deep dive into the applications and functions that keep Ars humming along in the cloud. https://bit.ly/3q629QQ Read more
Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix July 25, 2023 "Zenbleed" bug affects all Zen 2-based Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC CPUs. https://bit.ly/3Y6e8dA Read more
Researchers find deliberate backdoor in police radio encryption algorithm July 25, 2023 Vendors knew all about it, but most customers were clueless. https://bit.ly/3Ot9ZgB Read more
AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro July 24, 2023 Red Hat made being a 1:1 clone hard. So AlmaLinux is pivoting and speeding up. https://bit.ly/3q7kBbF Read more
The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives July 24, 2023 In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay. https://bit.ly/44Z3dF8 Read more
Zyxel users still getting hacked by DDoS botnet emerge as public nuisance No. 1 July 21, 2023 12 weeks after critical vulnerability was patched, devices are still being wrangled. https://bit.ly/3K8meN6 Read more
Redditors prank AI-powered news mill with “Glorbo” in World of Warcraft July 21, 2023 "Glorbo" isn't real, but a news-writing AI model didn't know it—and then it wrote about itself. https://bit.ly/44DralA Read more
The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president July 21, 2023 1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience. https://bit.ly/43yxSrG Read more
Firmware vulnerabilities in millions of computers could give hackers superuser status July 21, 2023 BMCs give near-total control over entire fleets of servers. What happens when they're hacked? https://bit.ly/3rKe07q Read more
Google demos “unsettling” tool to help journalists write the news July 20, 2023 "Genesis" will seek to assist journalists, not replace them—yet. https://bit.ly/3O3njqC Read more
Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced July 20, 2023 Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture. https://bit.ly/43x9LJY Read more
The Cyber Trust Mark is a voluntary IoT label coming in 2024. What does it mean? July 19, 2023 The FCC and other agencies have their hands full trying to simplify a big topic. https://bit.ly/3NYzPYC Read more
Behind the scenes: How we host Ars Technica, part 1 July 19, 2023 Join us on a multipart journey into our place in the cloud! https://bit.ly/3pOhAx5 Read more
Meta launches Llama 2, an open source AI model that allows commercial applications July 18, 2023 A family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models in sizes from 7 to 70 billion parameters. https://bit.ly/3pSu6vk Read more
Microsoft 365’s Copilot assistant for businesses comes with a hefty price tag July 18, 2023 Copilot runs $30 per user per month on top of your existing Microsoft 365 plan. https://bit.ly/43qEate Read more
Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator July 18, 2023 Spelling error misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to company running Mali’s TLD. https://bit.ly/3K00YJq Read more
JumpCloud, an IT firm serving 200,000 orgs, says it was hacked by nation-state July 17, 2023 "Extremely targeted" attack involved a data injection into JumpCloud's commands framework. https://bit.ly/3Q1d09p Read more
Microsoft takes pains to obscure role in 0-days that caused email breach July 14, 2023 Critics also decry Microsoft's "pay-to-play" monitoring that detected intrusions. https://bit.ly/46S1h30 Read more
Fran Drescher: “We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines” July 14, 2023 As actors strike, Hollywood reportedly seeks to own actors' digital doubles. https://bit.ly/3NPmjGF Read more
Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI July 14, 2023 Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them. https://bit.ly/3Dd8nRP Read more
Chasing defamatory hallucinations, FTC opens investigation into OpenAI July 13, 2023 FTC sends 20-page info request over fears of "false, misleading, or disparaging" generations. https://bit.ly/3PPqgOe Read more
Linux could be 3% of global desktops. What happened to Windows? July 12, 2023 Linux gains (or loses), Windows slumps, macOS jumps—it's been quite a year. https://bit.ly/3pCpkSM Read more
Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe” July 12, 2023 xAI will feature veterans from DeepMind, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla. https://bit.ly/3OaMfxH Read more
New ChatGPT rival, Claude 2, launches for open beta testing July 11, 2023 US and UK users can converse with Claude 2 through the Anthropic website. https://bit.ly/46HldFA Read more
Judge sides with Microsoft in FTC injunction, unlocking final Activision battles July 11, 2023 Companies' goodwill efforts, including Call of Duty sharing, were persuasive. https://bit.ly/46IHvXk Read more
Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta for being “industrial-strength plagiarists” July 10, 2023 AI models allegedly trained on books copied from popular pirate e-book sites. https://bit.ly/3rc7YfF Read more
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) July 08, 2023 Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social. https://bit.ly/3XHAnq6 Read more
MOVEit app mass-exploited last month patches new critical vulnerability July 07, 2023 Just in time for the weekend: another unauthenticated SQL injection flaw! https://bit.ly/3O3dvy3 Read more
Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking July 06, 2023 Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances. https://bit.ly/3D3uL04 Read more
Actively exploited vulnerability threatens hundreds of solar power stations July 05, 2023 Organizations using unpatched SolarView products face potentially serious consequences. https://bit.ly/3JL8U15 Read more
336,000 servers remain unpatched against critical Fortigate vulnerability July 03, 2023 69 percent of devices have yet to receive patch for flaw allowing remote code execution. https://bit.ly/46xFk8W Read more
TSMC says some of its data was swept up in a hack on a hardware supplier July 01, 2023 The pernicious LockBit ransomware syndicate claims responsibility and demands $70 million. https://bit.ly/3r5My3T Read more