We don't need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.
Eric Berger / Ars Technica: If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere — SpaceX has formally acquired another one of Elon Musk's companies, xAi, the space company announced on Monday afternoon.
Suspected China-state hackers used update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version.
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch — “Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves.” — It took Android devicemakers a very long time to commit to long-term update support.
Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.
Ars spoke to several software devs about AI and found enthusiasm tempered by unease.
Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn's ordeal began.
We have no proof that AI models suffer, but Anthropic acts like they might for training purposes.
One of the last holdouts for ransomware discussions, RAMP is taken down.
Over 400,000 H200 chips coming to tech giants as China tries to balance tech needs with self-reliance.
The open source "Jarvis" chats via WhatsApp but requires access to your files and accounts.
Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop.
Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks.
The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile.
New policy requires "buy for me" AI tools and chatbots to obtain permission before accessing the platform.
Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data.
The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it.
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: The memory shortage that is spiking RAM prices is now expanding to the broader PC market, driving price hikes for GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and hard drives — GPU makers may prioritize more profitable models; large SSDs are harder to find. … Standalone, direct-to-consumer RAM kits …
Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.
Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered.
Amid fears of bubble, world's top chipmaker TSMC says customers just keep asking for more.
Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI to paid deals.
Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral to API access deals.
Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.
Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.
VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.
US defense secretary announces plans for integration despite recent controversies.
Company responds to community concerns over electricity bills and water use.
AI Overviews provided false liver test information experts called alarming.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials — Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service …
New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.
Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.
Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data.
The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list.
In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.
A serious data breach has occurred, but Ars users have nothing to worry about.
GPS jamming has gotten cheap and easy, but there are potential solutions.
From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick.
New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse.
The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.
Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.
The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades.
Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares.
"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent writing code.
Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.
Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more.