The Android-powered Boox Palma 2 Pro fits in your pocket, but it’s not a phone
Digital reading devices like the Kindle have existed for almost 20 years, and the standard eReader form factor has hardly...
A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions
The outage that hit Amazon Web Services and took out vital services worldwide was the result of a single failure...
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...