Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem
Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling tendency to tell people what...
Tesla’s “Mad Max” mode is now under federal scrutiny
Earlier this month, Tesla rolled out a new firmware update that added a pair of new driving modes for the...
CS2 item market loses nearly $2B in value overnight due to “trade up” update
From the outside, Counter-Strike 2 looks a lot like a game that’s primarily about shooting people. For millions of players,...
General Motors will integrate AI into its cars, plus new hands-free assist
GM provided flights from Detroit to New York City and accommodation so Ars could attend its tech event. Ars does...
Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps
The makers of BIND, the Internet’s most widely used software for resolving domain names, are warning of two vulnerabilities that...
AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
This week’s Amazon Web Services outage had some people waking up on the wrong side of the bed. A Domain...
Samsung Galaxy XR is the first Android XR headset, now on sale for $1,800
The era of Android virtual reality is here… again. Google’s first two attempts at making Android fit for your face...
Google has a useful quantum algorithm that outperforms a supercomputer
A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing...
Sam Chapman
PIA has great features and even better prices, but actually using it can be brutal. No matter how you subscribed,...
YouTube’s likeness detection has arrived to help stop AI doppelgängers
AI content has proliferated across the Internet over the past few years, but those early confabulations with mutated hands have...