Apple, OpenAI, Meta, and more are all racing toward AI hardware products. Apple is working on a wearable device that will allow the user to take advantage of AI models, according to sources familiar with the product who spoke with tech publication The Information. The product is said to…
But Nyxi’s Hyperion 3 upgrade comes with a pretty high asking price. When I reviewed the Switch 2 back in June, I noted that the lack of any sort of extended grip on the extremely thin Joy-Con 2 controllers made them relatively awkward to hold, both when connected to…
New policy requires “buy for me” AI tools and chatbots to obtain permission before accessing the platform. On Tuesday, eBay updated its User Agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting with its platform without permission, first spotted by Value Added Resource. On…
Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data. Websites that authenticate users through links and codes sent in text messages are imperiling the privacy of millions of people, leaving them vulnerable to scams, identity theft, and other crimes, recently published research has found. The links are…
For our C:ArsGames series, we look at the controls conundrum of early 3D. For a lot of the games I’ve written about in the C:ArsGames series, I’ve come to the conclusion that the games hold up pretty well, despite their age—Master of Orion II, Jill of the Jungle, and…
Kioxia is spinning up more manufacturing capacity, but relief will come slowly. The companies that make RAM and flash memory chips are enjoying record profits because of the AI-induced memory crunch—and they’re also indicating that they don’t expect conditions to improve much if at all in 2026. And while…
The Swarm Garden: An array of modular robot agents that adapt to changing conditions for living architecture. Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published in the…
The EX60 goes into production in April 2026. After a teaser campaign that included a world exclusive with Ars, Volvo has officially unveiled its next electric vehicle, the EX60. We already knew it would have up to 400 miles of range, according to the US EPA test cycle, and…
Real estate website scrubbed data under pressure from California real estate brokers. Even as exposure to floods, fire, and extreme heat increase in the face of climate change, a popular tool for evaluating risk has disappeared from the nation’s leading real estate website. Zillow removed the feature displaying climate…
The web’s best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it. On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model. Called “Humanizer,” the simple prompt…
