Promised protections follow reports of vulnerable users misled in extended chats. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its simulated reasoning models, following what the company has called “heartbreaking cases” of users experiencing crises while using the…
The Blank Slate will be made from just 600 parts, with no paint or infotainment. Slate Auto provided flights from San Francisco to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and accommodation so Ars could visit the Slate factory. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. WARSAW, Indiana—The Blank Slate pickup scratches a…
A day driving camouflaged prototypes revealed some rather neat features. Porsche provided flights from Albany, New York, to Barcelona and accommodation so Ars could drive a prototype Cayenne Electric. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Curved displays in cars are increasingly common, adding a bit of shape to…
A 3D reconstruction of the Shroud of Turin, “jelly ice,” regenerating snail eyes, and more It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we…
One of the world’s foremost climate models now faces funding threats. In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running weather simulations on an early computer system when he realized that a small rounding difference led to extremely divergent weather predictions. He later called this idea the butterfly effect to…
It’s a closely watched test of whether corporate alliances on climate efforts violate antitrust laws. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Since 2022, Republican lawmakers in Congress and state…
New law emboldens complaints against digital content rentals labled as purchases. Words have meaning. Proper word selection is integral to strong communication, whether it’s about relaying one’s feelings to another or explaining the terms of a deal, agreement, or transaction. Language can be confusing, but typically when something is…
The 25H2 update will be a quiet one, after 24H2’s under-the-hood overhauls. Microsoft’s fifth major iteration of Windows 11 is nearing its release to the general public—the Windows Insider team announced today that Windows 11 25H2 was being put into its Release Preview Channel, the final stop for most…
The data was key evidence in the death of a pedestrian in 2019. At the beginning of the month, Tesla was found partly liable in a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of a pedestrian in Florida in 2019. The automaker—which could have settled the case for far less—claimed…
Amid player complaints, EA says 330,000 cheaters were stopped in beta’s first two days. Earlier this month, EA announced that players in its Battlefield 6 open beta on PC would have to enable Secure Boot in their Windows OS and BIOS settings. That decision proved controversial among players who…
