Historic interpreter taught millions to program on Commodore and Apple computers. On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through custom adaptations. The company posted 6,955 lines of…
Judge rules Trump admin broke law, and says Supreme Court has been “unhelpful.” A federal judge sided with Harvard University in its lawsuit against the Trump administration, ordering the US government to unfreeze about $2.6 billion in funding. The judge’s ruling also criticized the Supreme Court for issuing orders…
Will the new Prelude be the best of both worlds when it goes on sale this fall? At the end of last year, we learned that Honda was bringing back the Prelude. Although Honda has varied the ingredients over the years, the recipe for the Prelude remains the same:…
New accessories also add Matter support, for those to whom that matters. We’ve been covering Philips’ lineup of color-changing, Wi-Fi connected Hue lights since their earliest days, and their early success means they became integrated into many smart home setups just as smart thermostats, doorbells, smoke alarms, and speakers…
There are no Falcon Heavy launches this year, so now’s the time for SpaceX to act. Remember the first time you saw a SpaceX rocket nail a bullseye landing after hurtling back from space? How about the first time two boosters landed side by side, punctuating the inaugural launch…
Valve’s usually stable platform struggles thanks in part to lack of pre-loading options. An influx of players excited for this morning’s launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong are encountering widespread errors purchasing and downloading the game from Steam this morning. Ars Technica writers have encountered errors getting store pages to…
Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle. On Tuesday, Tencent released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, allowing users to pilot a camera path to “explore” virtual scenes. The model simultaneously generates RGB video…
Google’s latest updates include a smattering of features for Pixels and other Android phones. Google has spent the last few weeks hyping up its new Pixel 10 phones, which are very nice devices. They’re just not a big leap over last year’s phones. If you’ve decided to hang onto…
Study shows how patterns in LLM training data can lead to “parahuman” responses. If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print…
The three certificates were issued in May but only came to light Wednesday. People in Internet security circles are sounding the alarm over the issuance of three TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1, a widely used DNS service from content delivery network Cloudflare and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)…
