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Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.

Hamster Corp.'s new "Console Archives" does what Nintendon't.

The emphasis is on "mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates."

Senator: ICE and CBP "have built an arsenal of surveillance technologies."

Microsoft won't explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites.

Kanzi is able to generate an idea of this pretend object and at the same time know it's not real."

Never underestimate the value of a good night's sleep.

AirDrop came to the Pixel 10 last year, and more Android phones will join the party in 2026.

Sam Altman calls AI competitor "dishonest" and "authoritarian" in lengthy post on X.

Dubbed "Jetty McJetface," the tidal disruption event's energy keeps getting brighter and should peak in 2027.

"We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments."

Electric vehicle sales increased by 29% in 2025, even as overall sales grew 2.2%.

Valve says it still hopes to ship both devices "in the first half of the year."

Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.

Smell added an emotional and sensory depth that text labels alone could never provide."

The window to patch vulnerabilities is shrinking rapidly.

Post reporter was compelled to unlock MacBook Pro with fingerprint, however.

ChatGPT competitor comes out swinging with Super Bowl ad mocking AI product pitches.

"We will continue to rely on the ingenuity of the private sector."

Musk is stuck fighting SEC suit seeking $150M in disgorgements from his Twitter takeover.

In a Senate hearing Tuesday, NIH director dismissed concern about research chaos.

Sen. Markey: Database of peaceful protesters, if it exists, should be shut down.

Despite the about-face, some customers think "the damage is done."

Unencrypted European communications are being targeted by Moscow.

"You know, you're right, the flight rate-three years is a long time."

Some semi-unhinged musings on where LLMs fit into my life-and how I'll keep using them.

Eighty percent of HBO Max subscribers subscribe to Netflix, Sarandos tells Senate.

"This Titan is like a god, and the sea creatures worship it."

Two AI giants shake market confidence after investment fails to materialize.

Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.

Paris prosecutor: Illegal content probe includes pornographic images of minors.

Switch 2 has already beaten the Wii U and is on its way to overtaking GameCube.

ChromeOS may be canned once the current support guarantee has run its course.

With Model Context Protocol (MCP), this works with more than Codex/Claude, too.

C:\ArsGames looks at a vanguard of the multimedia FMV future that never quite came to pass.

Hefty "fine" comes in wake of NY Times reporting of money-free settlement.

The pop-out door handle ban starts in 2027 for new cars, 2029 for existing models.

Resources are redirected from long-term research toward improving the flagship chatbot.

We don't need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.

NASA spent most of Monday trying to overcome hydrogen leaks on the Artemis II rocket.

Romero, Carmack, and colleagues discuss an oft-forgotten piece of PC gaming history.

Sony has made streaming anime pricier since buying Crunchyroll.

"This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission."

"This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission."

Defense chief: "No Ukrainians have been killed by Russian drones using Starlink."

Trump admin's "it's classified" ploy put on hold in five different cases.

Suspected China-state hackers used update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version.

We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important."

The more RAM the Pi board has, the more its price is increasing.

Meant to undercut EPA regulations, the group tried to work in secret.