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AI assistants don't have fixed personalities-just patterns of output guided by humans.

Monarez aligned with evidence-based public health community and had support of experts.

"If you want to make foodborne disease go away, then don't look for foodborne disease."

"A significant part of the team has lost motivation and a sense of shared responsibility."

Plaintiffs seek DOGE documents, allege FCC violated Freedom of Information Act.

Intel warns investors to brace for losses and uncertainties.

Malicious websites can embed invisible commands that AI agents will follow blindly.

French report also suggests Star Citizen might hit 1.0 release in "2027 or 2028."

This was the first successful flight of SpaceX's second-generation Starship after three failures.

Collapsing gas clouds in the early universe may have formed lower-mass stars as well.

Corsair's Xeneon Edge is the best at what it does but is software-dependent.

Specs mean nothing if you get the feel and execution wrong.

It's not just you. Survey says: "Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky"

Preview: The sequel's prologue stresses meaningful choices, wry humor

"I don't want to gamble on which major city or two we lose in a scenario like that."

Advocates fear such settlements will "financially ruin" the AI industry.

ChatGPT allegedly provided suicide encouragement to teen after moderation safeguards failed.

Half of a year of data shows that the solar boom is not slowing down.

Live copy of NUMIDENT "lacks any security oversight," whistleblower alleges.

There are no major new consumer features. Enterprises get a few things though.

"We wish we were young again and NASA was this vivacious, you know?"

ChatGPT taught teen jailbreak so bot could assist in his suicide, lawsuit says.

EchoStar selling spectrum to AT&T after FCC threatened to revoke licenses.

Expect Apple's next-gen iPhones, software release dates, and some other devices.

The soft top is cheaper and, oddly, more refined.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is currently atop LMArena's image-editing leaderboard.

Older Ryzen 7040-based model will stick around at $1,299 as a lower-end option.

Triple-fermented Belgian beers have the longest-lasting foam; single-fermented lagers have the shortest.

If they improve further, AI weather models may very well become the gold standard.

Project was 80 percent complete and was slated to power more than 350,000 homes.

Update: This Ars Live session has been rescheduled.

Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport.

Breaches in 2020 and 2025, reportedly by foreign adversaries, exposed confidential files.

New series will star Michelle Yeoh and take place 50 years after the 2017 film.

It's not a first-there was a case last year-but it's still disturbing.

OpenAI slams Musk's lawsuit as part of his "ongoing pattern of harassment."

Trump says ABC and NBC "give me 97% BAD STORIES," urges FCC to revoke licenses.

Users of X3D CPUs in ASRock motherboards seem to be at particularly high risk.

Google says this isn't technically "GenAI," but it is altering videos without warning.

It's not for the squeamish, but if a campy blood-splattered B-movie is your jam, the film opens Aug. 29.

Now you Zenit, now you don't.

A new tool lets you explore how much a vehicle would emit in every county of the US.

Mexican tetras in pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs.

"The boost kit will help sustain the orbiting lab's altitude, starting in September."

Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don't exist.

SpaceX is gearing up for another Starship launch after three straight disappointing test flights.

If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison groundwater.

Words you'll never speak still cause activity in the brain's speech centers.

The bacterium is known to live in Mississippi, but the new cases may expand its range.

Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation.