It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a...
WHO starts cutting costs as US withdrawal date set for January 2026
“Just stupid” On January 23, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sent a memo to staff announcing the cost-cutting measures. Reuters obtained a copy of the memo. “This announcement has made...
Nvidia starts to wind down support for old GPUs, including the long-lived GTX 1060
Nvidia is launching the first volley of RTX 50-series GPUs based on its new Blackwell architecture, starting with the RTX 5090 and working downward from there. The company also appears...
Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API
Willison notes that while citing sources helps verify accuracy, building a system that does it well “can be quite tricky,” but Citations appears to be a step in the right...
Couple allegedly tricked AI investors into funding wedding, houses
To further the alleged scheme, he “often described non-existent revenue, inflated cash balances,” and “otherwise exaggerated customer relationships,” the US Attorney’s Office said, to convince investors to spend millions. As...
Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games
For his analysis, Barthelemy chose to represent chess as a decision tree in which each “branch” leads to a win, loss, or draw. Players face the challenge of finding the...
For real, we may be taking blood pressure readings all wrong
For people who had high blood pressure readings only when sitting (normal readings while lying down), there was no statistically significant difference in risk of coronary heart disease, heart failure,...
ISP failed to comply with New York’s $15 broadband law—until Ars got involved
New York’s affordable broadband law Optimum wasn’t ready to comply with law, rejected low-income man’s request twice. Credit: Getty Images | imagedepotpro When New York’s law requiring $15 or $20...
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC—but it sure is fast
Even setting aside Frame Generation, this is a fast, power-hungry $2,000 GPU. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Credit: Andrew Cunningham Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 starts at $1,999 before you factor in upsells...
Researchers optimize simulations of molecules on quantum computers
The net result is a much faster operation involving far fewer gates. That’s important because errors in quantum hardware increase as a function of both time and the number of...
Stargate AI-1
There was a comedy routine a few years ago. I believe it was by Hannah Gadsby. She brought up a painting, and looked at some details. The details weren’t important...
Backdoor infecting VPNs used “magic packets” for stealth and security
When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard work can’t be leveraged by competing groups or detected by...
Way more game makers are working on PC titles than ever, survey says
Four out of five game developers are currently working on a project for the PC, a sizable increase from 66 percent of developers a year ago. That’s according to Informa’s...
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can operate your computer
While it’s working, Operator shows a miniature browser window of its actions. However, the technology behind Operator is still relatively new and far from perfect. The model reportedly performs best...
All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work—ideally within 30 days
Exceptions may be granted Ezell’s memo expanded criticism of the Biden administration’s approach to remote work, suggesting that it enabled federal unions’ alleged attempts “to abuse the collective-bargaining process to...
Trump can save TikTok without forcing a sale, ByteDance board member claims
TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly still searching for non-sale options to stay in the US after the Supreme Court upheld a national security law requiring that TikTok’s US operations either...
Doom: The Dark Ages wants to be more like the original Doom
In place of Doom Eternal‘s “jump and shoot” gameplay loop, The Dark Ages focuses on more of a “stand and fight” mentality, the developers said. If Doom Eternal was like...
Court rules FBI’s warrantless searches violated Fourth Amendment
“Certainly, the Court can imagine situations where obtaining a warrant might frustrate the purpose of querying, particularly where exigency requires immediate querying,” DeArcy Hall wrote. “This is why the Court...
Trump’s FCC chair gets to work on punishing TV news stations accused of bias
Carr has made it clear that he wants the FCC to punish news broadcasters that he perceives as being unfair to Trump or Republicans in general. He claimed that NBC...
George R.R. Martin has co-authored a physics paper
They also suggest the existence of “cryptos”: Jokers and Aces with mutations that are largely unobservable, such as producing ultraviolet racing stripes on someone’s heart or imbuing “a resident of...