Amazon’s Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE. Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon’s Ring smart cameras. In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring…
Backup firm brings a unique, informed perspective to HDD failure rates. Backblaze is a backup and cloud storage company that has been tracking the annualized failure rates (AFRs) of the hard drives in its datacenter since 2013. As you can imagine, that’s netted the firm a lot of data.…
Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification. We all feel it: Our once-happy digital spaces have become increasingly less user-friendly and more toxic, cluttered with extras nobody asked for and hardly anybody wants. There’s even a word for it: “enshittification,” named 2023 Word of the Year…
Copilot expands with an emphasis on creating and editing files, voice input. Like virtually every major Windows announcement in the last three years, the spate of features that Microsoft announced for the operating system today all revolve around generative AI. In particular, they’re concerned with the company’s more recent…
Does your phone even have a Mind Space? OnePlus is expected to take the wraps off the OnePlus 15 in the next few weeks, but before that, it’s giving us a look at the software that will run on it. OxygenOS 16, which is based on Android 16, will…
The bundle starts at $15/month, compared to $21/month if purchased separately. In a rarity for Apple’s streaming service, users will be able to buy bundled subscriptions to Apple TV and Peacock for a discount, starting on October 20. On its own, the Apple TV streaming service (which was called Apple…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand. It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions of websites’ robots.txt files in an effort to force Google to change how it crawls them to fuel its AI…
Veo 3.1 is coming to the Gemini app and the Flow filmmaking tool. It’s getting harder to know what’s real on the Internet, and Google is not helping one bit with the announcement of Veo 3.1. The company’s new video model supposedly offers better audio and realism, along with…
Leaks of the new tablet from a couple weeks ago appear to have been genuine. A couple of weeks ago, a YouTuber unboxed what appeared to be a refreshed iPad Pro in full retail packaging, suggesting it would be launching imminently. Today, Apple formally announced the new tablets, and…
A 27.5% increase in memory bandwidth provides a big boost to GPU performance. Apple often releases a smaller second wave of new products in October after the dust settles from its September iPhone announcement, and this year that wave revolves around its brand-new M5 chip. The first Mac to…
