On Monday, Ars Technica hosted our Ars Frontiers virtual conference. In our fifth panel, we covered "The Lightning Onset of AI--What Suddenly Changed?" The panel featured a conversation with Paige Bai...
Image via YouTube/ Christian CooperDon't you just love when judges give a little bit of pushback? It is interesting to get a record of in opinions like the spat between Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, b...
Recently, on a question-and-answer thread on Reddit, somebody asked about the exact heel height of a discontinued weightlifting shoe. "I've looked everywhere, but not even ChatGPT knows," I remember t...
[photo1]A common complaint practicing lawyers have is that while law schools cost a fortune, they simply don't teach the most essential skill needed for professional competency. What skill might that ...
Apple today seeded the third betas of upcoming iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5 updates to public beta testers, allowing non-developers to test out the software head of its official launch. The third public b...
AI is very much a work in progress, and we should all be wary of its potential for confidently spouting misinformation. But it seems to be more likely to do so in some languages than others. Why is th...
In March, Discord announced that it had integrated OpenAI's technology into its bot named Clyde, turning it into an AI-powered chatbot. Just like with any other chatbot launched in the last few months...
From the outside, Google Bard looks like a rushed product to try to compete with ChatGPT, and some Google employees share those sentiments. A new report from Bloomberg interviews 18 current and former...
A new-ish leadership team is taking over at Arcimoto, a Eugene, Oregon-based startup that makes doorless, three-wheeled electric vehicles.On Thursday, the company said that board member Chris Dawson w...
When Elon Musk slapped NPR's Twitter account with a "US state-affiliated media" label last week, it quickly became clear he didn't know much about how NPR operates or how it's funded. After admitting ...
Indian at-home salon platform Yes Madam exposed the sensitive data of its customers and gig workers due to a server-side misconfiguration.Noida-based Yes Madam operates in more than 30 cities in the c...
[photo1]A month or two ago, I heard about a new artificial intelligence application called ChatGPT, with which I am sure many readers already have experience. I am not a tech person (so if any definit...
A version of this story was first published in yesterday's edition of my Command Line newsletter.A monthslong leak investigation by Meta has uncovered the source behind renders of the company's unanno...
For almost five years, Booking.com customers have been on the receiving end of a continuous series of scams that clearly demonstrate that criminals have obtained travel plans and other personal inform...
Yesterday, Microsoft launched the new Bing on the web and in its Edge browser, powered by a combination of a next-gen OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft's own Prometheus model. With this, Microsoft jumped...
[photo1]Law enforcement officers have a disturbing propensity for abusing their power. And far too many abuse this power to engage in things entirely unrelated to police work, like browsing databases ...