The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months. Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting complete and extended conversations from users’ AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google and Microsoft pages hosting them. Security…
At SEMA, we heard Trump-like talking points but saw skateboard chassis, too. After federal clean vehicle tax credits ended in September, the electric vehicle industry reached a crossroads. Well, technically, it has been there since Trump took office. This is a weird period in automotive history; A chunk of…
The financial picture around drilling is moving against the Trump administration’s hopes As the Trump administration makes announcement after announcement about its efforts to promote the US fossil fuel industry, the industry isn’t exactly jumping at new opportunities. Some high-profile oil and gas industry leaders and organizations have objected…
“We’re going to be making 3D movies of what is going on in the Milky Way galaxy.” A few weeks ago, technicians inside a cavernous clean room in Maryland made the final connection to complete assembly of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Parts of this new observatory, named…
Resurrected high-end all-in-one could be a worthy successor to 2017’s iMac Pro. Apple doesn’t like to talk about its upcoming products before it’s ready, but sometimes the company’s software does the talking for it. So far this week we’ve had a couple of software-related leaks that have outed products…
“Everybody I’ve talked to are still adamant,” even after previous rumors didn’t pan out. If you can take your mind way back to the beginning of 2025, you might remember a fresh wave of rumors suggesting that Half-Life 3 was finally reaching the final stages of production, and could…
Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox believes his state needs more power—a lot more. By some estimates, Utah will require as much electricity in the next five years as it generated all last century…
Starting at $47,250, Mercedes’ new electric sedan is quite compelling. Mercedes-Benz provided flights from Washington to San Francisco and accommodation so Ars could drive the CLA. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. SAN FRANCISCO—Automakers are starting to follow somewhat familiar paths as they continue their journeys to electrification.…
Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content. Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it has become a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster announced that “slop” is…
The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades. Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and recently faced blistering criticism…
