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…
Google says SRV3 captions were causing playback errors, so it has “temporarily” disabled them. YouTubers have been increasingly frustrated with Google’s management of the platform, with disinformation welcomed back and an aggressive push for more AI (except where Google doesn’t like it). So it’s no surprise that creators have…
Study is first to implant micro-electrode arrays to record neurons as they produce facial gestures. Recent advances in brain-computer interfaces have made it possible to more accurately extract speech from neural signals in humans, but language is just one of the tools we use to communicate. “When my young…
