Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification. We all feel it: Our once-happy digital spaces have become increasingly less user-friendly and more toxic, cluttered with extras nobody asked for and hardly anybody wants. There’s even a word for it: “enshittification,” named 2023 Word of the Year…
Copilot expands with an emphasis on creating and editing files, voice input. Like virtually every major Windows announcement in the last three years, the spate of features that Microsoft announced for the operating system today all revolve around generative AI. In particular, they’re concerned with the company’s more recent…
Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns. Hacking groups—at least one of which works on behalf of the North Korean government—have found a new and inexpensive way to distribute malware from “bulletproof” hosts: stashing them on public cryptocurrency blockchains. In a Thursday post, members…
Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAI’s finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman. On Tuesday of last week, Ars Technica hosted a live conversation with Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast and one of tech’s most vocal AI critics, to discuss whether the generative AI industry is experiencing…
Does your phone even have a Mind Space? OnePlus is expected to take the wraps off the OnePlus 15 in the next few weeks, but before that, it’s giving us a look at the software that will run on it. OxygenOS 16, which is based on Android 16, will…
The bundle starts at $15/month, compared to $21/month if purchased separately. In a rarity for Apple’s streaming service, users will be able to buy bundled subscriptions to Apple TV and Peacock for a discount, starting on October 20. On its own, the Apple TV streaming service (which was called Apple…
UZDoom fork promises to fix other top-down leadership problems with the decades-old mod. If you’ve even idly checked in on the robust world of Doom fan development in recent years, you’ve probably encountered one of the hundreds of gameplay mods, WAD files, or entire commercial games based on GZDoom.…
There’s no big rush to bring SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Department of the Air Force has approved SpaceX’s plans to launch up to 100 missions per year from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This would continue the tectonic turnaround at the spaceport on…
Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole. As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ice cap still seemed securely…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand. It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions of websites’ robots.txt files in an effort to force Google to change how it crawls them to fuel its AI…
