OpenAI’s new $400 billion announcement reveals both growing AI demand and circular investments. On Tuesday, OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced plans for five new US AI data center sites for Stargate, their joint AI infrastructure project, bringing the platform to nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity and over $400…
Sunrun, Ford, and BGE started the vehicle-to-grid test in July. The idea of using an electric vehicle’s battery to send energy from the EV to the electrical grid is not a new idea. Ars first covered the technology, known as vehicle-to-grid or V2G, back in 2009 when Ford and…
Baseboard management controller vulnerabilities make remote attacks possible. Servers running on motherboards sold by Supermicro contain high-severity vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs even before the operating system, making infections impossible to detect or remove without unusual protections in place. One of the…
New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran. If an Iranian taxi driver waves away your payment, saying, “Be my guest this time,” accepting their offer would be a cultural disaster. They expect you to insist on paying—probably three times—before they’ll take…
In case you needed another reason to get rid of Disney+. While mired in controversy from all sides, the Walt Disney Company has unveiled price hikes for Disney+ and its other streaming services today. As of October 21, Disney+ will cost up to 20 percent more, depending on the…
Alphabet blames the Biden administration for its moderation decisions. It’s not exactly hard to find politically conservative content on YouTube, but the platform may soon skew even further to the right. YouTube parent Alphabet has confirmed that it will restore channels that were banned in recent years for spreading…
An interesting iPhone despite throttling, worse battery, and single-lens camera. If you’ll indulge me for a moment, here’s some ancient history. In 2008, when Apple took the very first MacBook Air out of a manila envelope, it was not positioned as Apple’s new entry-level Mac laptop. The innovative but…
“It was over quickly for both males, one after the other. The first took 63 seconds, the other 47.” It’s a rare occurrence for scientists to witness sharks mating in the wild. It’s even rarer to catch three leopard sharks—two males and one female—engaging in what amounts to a…
QWOP meets Death Stranding meets Getting Over It to form wonderfully surreal, unique game. There’s an old saying that life is not about how many times you fall down but how many times you get back up. In my roughly 13 hours of walking through the surreal mountain wilderness…
Judge calls decision to stop construction “the height of arbitrary and capricious.” On Monday, a judge blocked the Trump administration’s latest attempt to stifle the US’s nascent offshore wind industry. The ruling allows construction to restart on Revolution Wind, which the Danish company Orsted is building in the waters…
