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Privacy experts are demanding transparency after YouTube announced it would test using AI to estimate user ages in the…
July 31, 2025Privacy experts are demanding transparency after YouTube announced it would test using AI to estimate user ages in the…
Kou July 31, 2025Formula E provided flights from Washington to London and accommodation so Ars could attend the London ePrix. Ars does n…
Kou July 31, 2025Only a week has passed since two Oklahoma Board of Education members complained about seeing nude women appear on a TV …
Kou July 31, 2025Google is fond of saying its mission is to "organize the world's information," but who gets to decide wha…
Kou July 30, 2025Amid the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to wrest the power of the purse from Congress, an estimated $15 bil…
Kou July 30, 2025On Tuesday, The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 percent of US adults have u…
Kou July 30, 2025The Trump administration has proposed curbing the government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases by unwinding rules …
Kou July 29, 2025It's undeniable that the rise of the Internet had a profound impact on cartooning as a profession, giving cartoonis…
Kou July 29, 2025Apple's next-generation software updates are just a couple of months away, but Apple isn't done with last year&…
Kou July 29, 2025According to US News and World Report , the state of Oklahoma ranks 48th in the United States for its pre-K to 12th gr…
Kou July 28, 2025The X-37B, the US Space Force's secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force ann…
Kou July 28, 2025The Belgian tourist board provided nothing to this article, the writer just really really loves Spa-Francorchamps. Ars…
Kou July 28, 2025For two years, Col. Raj Agrawal commanded the US military unit responsible for tracking nearly 50,000 human-made object…
Kou July 28, 2025HBO Max dropped the hotly anticipated full trailer for S2 of Peacemaker —James Gunn's Emmy-nominated series spun…
Kou July 27, 2025Next month marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history: Hurricane Katr…
Kou July 27, 2025For decades we’ve been trying to make the robots smarter and more physically capable by mimicking biological intelligen…
Kou July 27, 2025In December 2010, a study led by a NASA astrobiology fellow claimed to have found an alien-like microbe in a salty, al…
Kou July 25, 2025On Thursday, The Verge reported that OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5 as early as August, according to sources fami…
Kou July 25, 2025I maintain a to-do list of story ideas to write at Ars, and for about a year "monthly column on DOS games I love&q…
Kou July 25, 2025To the casual observer, cybercriminals can look like swashbuckling geniuses. They possess technical skills formidable …
Kou July 24, 2025Search is changing at a breakneck pace , with Google rolling out new AI features so quickly it can be hard to keep up. …
Kou July 24, 2025Donald Trump vowed to save TikTok before taking office , claiming only he could make a deal to keep the app operational…
Kou July 24, 2025The CEOs of every major artificial intelligence company received letters Wednesday urging them to fight Donald Trump…
Kou July 24, 2025Google is following through on recent promises to add more generative AI features to its photo and video products. Over…
Kou July 23, 2025Yesterday, Ukrainian authorities arrested the suspected administrator of a notorious Russian-language crime forum, XSS.…
Kou July 23, 2025A California lawmaker halted an effort to pass a law that would force Internet service providers to offer $15 monthly p…
Kou July 22, 2025Google's search results have undergone a seismic shift over the past year as AI fever has continued to escalate amo…
Kou July 22, 2025We're roughly six months into Donald Trump's trade war, and tech firms remain in a fog, unsure what tariffs or …
Kou July 22, 2025Google has an event next month to officially launch the Pixel 10 series, but the leaks have been coming fast and furiou…
Kou July 21, 2025The Federal Communications Commission is ditching Biden-era standards for measuring progress toward the goal of univers…
Kou July 21, 2025Authorities and researchers are sounding the alarm over the active mass exploitation of a high-severity vulnerability i…
Kou July 21, 2025Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the Trump administration over the UK’s demand that A…
Kou July 21, 2025Order in the court! Order in the court! Judges are facing outcry over a suspected AI-generated order in a court. Fueli…
Kou July 21, 2025Twenty-five years ago, X-Men became a summer blockbuster and effectively re-energized a then-flagging market for super…
Kou July 20, 2025This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers clima…
Kou July 20, 2025This story was originally published by ProPublica . Five months after taking over the federal agency responsible for t…
Kou July 19, 2025This has been a good week for the US space agency in terms of the federal budget. On Tuesday, a committee in the US Ho…
Kou July 18, 2025A Polish programmer running on fumes recently accomplished what may soon become impossible: beating an advanced AI mode…
Kou July 18, 2025Researchers recently reported encountering a phishing attack in the wild that bypasses a multifactor authentication sch…
Kou July 18, 2025Google is hosting its annual Pixel event on August 20, which will likely feature the Pixel 10 series and the Pixel Watc…
Kou July 17, 2025Specs at a glance: Samsung Odyssey 3D Panel size 27 inches Resolution 3840×2160 (stereoscopic 3D compatible…
Kou July 17, 2025Valve's famously permissive rules for what games are and are not allowed on Steam got a little less permissive thi…
Kou July 16, 2025Ars Technica's community is—in our biased opinion—second to none online. For more than 26 years, readers have enabl…
Kou July 16, 2025A budget-writing panel in the House of Representatives passed a $24.8 billion NASA budget bill Tuesday, joining a simil…
Kou July 15, 2025For more than two decades, hard drive manufacturer Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording…
Kou July 15, 2025Chinese firms have begun rushing to order Nvidia's H20 AI chips as the company plans to resume sales to mainland Ch…
Kou July 15, 2025I went for a run this morning while holding my iPhone, which was connected to a cable that attached to my earbuds. I’ve…
Kou July 15, 2025Physicists with the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration have detected the gravitational wave signal (dubbed GW231123) of the…
Kou July 14, 2025When it comes to concrete use cases for large language models, AI companies love to point out the ways coders and sof…
Kou July 14, 2025An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner …
Kou July 14, 2025Hyundai provided flights from Albany to London and accommodation so Ars could attend the Goodwood Festival of Speed and…
Kou July 14, 2025Samuel Herman and Alexander Baciu never liked using Comcast's cable broadband. Now, the residents of Saline, Michig…
Kou July 14, 2025Earlier this month, Hollywood mourned the passing of Michael Madsen, a gifted actor best known for his critically accl…
Kou July 13, 2025The Curiosity rover was sent up the Mount Sharp, the biggest sediments stack on Mars. On the way, it collected samples …
Kou July 13, 2025A 51-year-old man showed up at a hospital in Germany looking as though he was wasting away, with swelling and tendernes…
Kou July 11, 2025Microsoft is adding a new recovery mode to Windows to help revive crashing PCs. Called quick machine recovery (QMR), th…
Kou July 11, 2025I'll be frank: I had mixed feelings, based solely on the trailers , about James Gunn's Superman reboot. Sure, …
Kou July 11, 2025On Thursday, a digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, published an expansive investigation into AI-…
Kou July 10, 2025Rotax provided flights from San Francisco to Salz, Austria, and accommodation so Ars could visit its factory and ride s…
Kou July 10, 2025In 2019, Nintendo announced a new benefit for subscribers to its Switch Online service: a pair of game vouchers , avai…
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