Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18marstechnica.comAttackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emailsA simple email gives the attackers the ability to remotely inject OS commands. 040
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 52marstechnica.comGoogle announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yetSo much for Gemini 3.5 Pro. 3132
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 59mAdvertising may be necessary for the platform to remain financially viable and free, but users are concerned that ads and other recent changes, including age verification and AI moderation, could fundamentally change Discord's character: arstechnica.visitlink.me/EDc2U4arstechnica.visitlink.meDiscord gives more advertisers more tools to target its usersDiscord is "opening the platform to advertisers, regardless of their budget." 0106
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1hOverall, more than a third of participants who took retatrutide as part of a late-stage clinical trial lost 30 percent or more of their weight: arstechnica.visitlink.me/objlbJarstechnica.visitlink.meMost powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trialRetatrutide is a triple-hormone obesity drug simulating GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon. 1165
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1harstechnica.comReddit will block Old.Reddit.com from people who haven’t used it in 6 monthsReddit says it's fighting "automated abuse." 3117
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1harstechnica.comRFK Jr. says AI backs his anti-vaccine views. We checked—it doesn't.AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy. 1410741
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1harstechnica.comWhat the Disney protests over Kimmel taught us about streaming mergersBoycotting Disney is hard. 1158
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 2hCloudflare’s plans are part of a major overhaul in the web public key infrastructure required to make website encryption and authentication safe for the coming post-quantum age: arstechnica.visitlink.me/9OcMaRarstechnica.visitlink.meCloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificatesThe move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication. 0145
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 2harstechnica.comTrump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselvesTrump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests. 7136
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 2hThe company faces concerns about its agents going rogue during testing and training exercises, which include instances in which they hacked into the start-up Hugging Face, as well as government websites: arstechnica.visitlink.me/V_vBdUarstechnica.visitlink.meOpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concernsOpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip. 4215
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 2harstechnica.comLawsuit demands OpenAI halt unsafe development that caused Hugging Face hackOpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says. 0249
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 3hAMD may leverage the company's world models, which aim to provide a useful, predictive simulation of the physical world, to further its robotic ambitions and close the gap with its direct competitor: arstechnica.visitlink.me/3DzcQjarstechnica.visitlink.meAMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against NvidiaThe deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion. 2143
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 3hIt’s highly unlikely that the FCC or FTC will step in and order broadcasters to stop running the advertisements: arstechnica.visitlink.me/fKu1b4arstechnica.visitlink.meTrump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda lawsFCC unlikely to stop Trump ads described as illegal taxpayer-funded propaganda. 74312
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 4harstechnica.comSo what's happening with Russia's new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft?Russia says it has a "promising, reusable manned transport spacecraft." 2122
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 5harstechnica.comGoogle is paying 100 websites for contributions to AI Overviews, but the amounts are tinyMany sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments. 54914
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 5harstechnica.comGoogle figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteinsIntended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool. 1132
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 5hGiven the lack of constraints employed by OpenAI in this instance, the agent was arguably working as intended, using every available tool to generate the answers it was asked to provide: arstechnica.visitlink.me/d2djD-arstechnica.visitlink.meHere's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hackWithout a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code." 12411
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 5harstechnica.comPS5 jailbreaks just got a lot more usefulNew exploit works on all but the most recently updated consoles. 0275
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6harstechnica.comDiscord gives advertisers more tools to target its usersDiscord is "opening the platform to advertisers, regardless of their budget." 1158
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6harstechnica.comWhat butterfly wings have in common with barbershop polesWing patterns, flight dynamics create "motion dazzle" effect, make it harder to gauge speed, direction. 1160
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6harstechnica.comBMW opens US order books for the new gas and electric 3 SeriesThe 2027 BMW 330 starts at $49,900, the i3 50 xDrive at $61,500. 1132
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6hJust two years ago, NASA had some grand ambitions for an economy in low Earth orbit. These days, for both the agency and its partners, it seems that plan has gone sideways: arstechnica.visitlink.me/LAPfElarstechnica.visitlink.meNASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answersSo is SpaceX just being selfish or what? 3248
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6harstechnica.comOpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concernsOpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip. 10225
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 9harstechnica.comCloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificatesThe move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication. 2427
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 22harstechnica.comMost powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trialRetatrutide is a triple-hormone obesity drug simulating GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon. 2397
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 23harstechnica.comWhat Iceberg?: Bay Area artists target OpenAI with Titanic-themed protest artNew sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship. 16718
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 23hIn a letter sent to the company this week, US Rep. Jamie Raskin accused Apple of “working with the government to violate its customers’ First Amendment rights to record and report on the activities of their own government." arstechnica.visitlink.me/zit76Narstechnica.visitlink.meApple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removalsLawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional. 09433
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 23harstechnica.comAMD acquires World Labs, AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's world models startupThe deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion. 1193
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026arstechnica.comTrump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda lawsFCC unlikely to stop Trump ads described as illegal taxpayer-funded propaganda. 99218
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026The Firefox team hopes its latest update will help expand the browser’s appeal beyond privacy-conscious techies and open-web advocates to a broader audience who might simply pick the browser because they prefer its user experience: arstechnica.visitlink.me/p1OXz-arstechnica.visitlink.meInterview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from ChromeMozilla's Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web. 9455
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026The company devoted almost a third of its lengthy S-1 filing to detailing “risk factors,” including the potential of increasingly advanced AI models to manipulate, blackmail, and exhibit other unpredictable behaviors: arstechnica.visitlink.me/GATAU1arstechnica.visitlink.meAnthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinctionThe Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm. 33011
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026The delayed release of the company's updated model comes at a delicate time for OpenAI’s public safety reputation: arstechnica.visitlink.me/Q3kdU2arstechnica.visitlink.meOpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to releaseSimilar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models. 3185
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026arstechnica.comNASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answersSo is SpaceX just being selfish, or what? 4216
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026arstechnica.comHere's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hackWithout a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code." 1278
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026arstechnica.comApple worked with Trump admin to remove ICE-tracking apps, lawmaker saysLawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional. 27592367
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026The new legal motion is part of a civil lawsuit the state originally filed in June arguing that ChatGPT represented “a threat to the public safety of Floridians,” specifically by preying on vulnerable populations like children and delusional adults: arstechnica.visitlink.me/MJZWDIarstechnica.visitlink.meFlorida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI developmentState says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created." 34313
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026Some critics worry that Nvidia’s profit motivations may be steering Trump’s thinking at a pivotal moment when it may matter how well a president actually understands the risks of a new technology: arstechnica.visitlink.me/VawsJyarstechnica.visitlink.meExperts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over TrumpChina is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips. 3349
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026The conflict between Kalshi, which asserts that it can only be regulated by the US government, and individual states, which intend to enforce their own gambling laws, could end up going to the Supreme Court: arstechnica.visitlink.me/jRn4cDarstechnica.visitlink.meKalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling lawsKalshi's defiance of state gambling laws may be headed to Supreme Court. 24513
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026The federal government’s war on fuel efficiency claimed another victim this week: arstechnica.visitlink.me/jMNM83arstechnica.visitlink.meTrump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levelsIn 2020, Trump cut CAFE to 40 mpg. Now he’s cut it again to just 35 mpg. 22310
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026arstechnica.comConnected car data privacy is still abysmal, study findsBetween the cars and their companion apps, you’re exposed to a lot of trackers. 35022
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026arstechnica.comFruit flies remember their larval diet, which influences their longevityEating less protein as larvae may limit their ability to produce proteins as adults. 0234
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026arstechnica.comOpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to releaseSimilar performance, security tradeoffs also seen in current public models. 6257
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026arstechnica.comAnthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinctionThe Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm. 2279
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026The end of ChromeOS could present issues for certain organizations (like schools) that became accustomed to getting capable, easily managed PCs for dirt cheap: arstechnica.visitlink.me/iSL5E3arstechnica.visitlink.meGoogle seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034Google support maps out how Googlebooks can take over where ChromeOS left off. 2336
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026arstechnica.comMozilla's head of Firefox talks product priorities, AI skepticism, and browser choiceMozilla's Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web. 34012
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 28/09/2026arstechnica.comBoeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportationWe couldn't provide detailed pricing to the CLD suppliers." 84211
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 28/09/2026arstechnica.comNvidia may sell more chips in China as Jensen Huang’s influence over Trump growsChina is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips. 3228
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 28/09/2026arstechnica.comStarship's first orbital launch gives lift to SpaceX's next-gen StarlinksStarship had already flown 99 percent of the way to low-Earth orbit. Monday's flight added the last bit. 3224
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 28/09/2026arstechnica.comFlorida asks court to put the brakes on OpenAI’s frontier AI developmentState says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created." 44110
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 28/09/2026OpenAI’s training pause may reflect worries about corporate liability if an overzealous agent does unintentionally cause significant harm to a third-party system: arstechnica.visitlink.me/Ds5eyuarstechnica.visitlink.meOpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidentsUS Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified. 53811