If you owned a Windows computer in the late ’90s or early ’00s, you probably remember 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet, a surprisingly competent virtual table included for free with multiple Microsoft OS… Read more: Windows’ classic 3D Space Cadet pinball is getting a physical re-creation

As the AI backlash continues to grow, critics of the tech have found an unlikely voice of support: the Catholic Church. In perhaps his strongest rebuke of the tech industry’s rampant obsession with AI yet,… Read more: The Pope Just Low Key Declared Holy War on Artificial Intelligence

Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could see its new Q, as well as drive its new RS5, which you can read about later this week. While we… Read more: A global brand but local cars is Audi’s future, says CEO

The Duffer brothers wrapped up their blockbuster series Stranger Things earlier this year and also departed Netflix for a lucrative new production deal with Paramount. But a couple of their production projects remain with Netflix: the… Read more: Review: The Boroughs is a smart, pitch-perfect creature feature

We all know AI guardrails are far from perfect, but they should at least be pretty hard to circumvent, right?  Bad news: they aren’t. New reporting from the Financial Times sounds the alarm on the… Read more: New Tools Strip AI Guardrails In Minutes, Allowing Them to Give Instructions on Chlorine Gas Attacks

This week Joseph speaks to Zack Whittaker, an editor at TechCrunch. Zack has been leading coverage into the spouseware or stalkerware industry. This is malware sold to ordinary people, which they then often install on… Read more: Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones (with Zack Whittaker)

ClickUp cut 22% of its staff, with CEO Zeb Evans framing the layoffs as part of an AI restructuring focused on 100x output. The post ClickUp Cuts 22% of Staff as CEO Pushes AI-First ‘100x… Read more: ClickUp Cuts 22% of Staff as CEO Pushes AI-First ‘100x Org’ Model

What will Google CEO Sundar Pichai say next month when he gives the commencement speech at Stanford University? Under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t be a terribly interesting question. But if you’ve been paying attention to the… Read more: As College Grads Boo Any Mention of AI, the CEO of Google Is Trying to Figure Out What to Say at an Upcoming Graduation

When a queen wasp suddenly disappears, her colony doesn’t calmly choose a successor — it erupts into chaos. Researchers found that female wasps immediately begin battling for power, shattering the colony’s social order in a… Read more: Queenless wasp colonies explode into chaos but hidden helpers save them

Scientists have created a global “treasure map” for rare earth elements by uncovering where the strange volcanic rocks that contain them are most likely to form. By combining thousands of rock samples with seismic images… Read more: Scientists create global treasure map pointing to hidden rare earth deposits

Ferrari provided flights from Washington, DC, to Rome and accommodation so Ars could see the Luce. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ROME—The arrival of any new Ferrari that isn’t a two-seater is usually… Read more: Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari’s first electric car

A new AI-powered chip from UC Davis can analyze light and chemicals using a device tiny enough to fit almost anywhere. By combining smart silicon sensors with machine learning, it achieves lab-style spectral analysis without… Read more: AI-powered spectrometer chip shrinks lab technology to the size of a grain of sand

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and forces of the universe. By… Read more: Large Hadron Collider detects strange particle behavior that could rewrite physics

Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, at the Vatican on May 25, 2026. AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino With the release of his encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, 2026,… Read more: Pope Leo XIV compares AI to the Industrial Revolution – as new alternatives to big AI firms take shape

Researchers at Texas A&M have developed a nasal spray that appears to reverse brain aging by calming inflammation and restoring the brain’s energy systems. After just two doses, memory and cognitive function improved for months,… Read more: Scientists say they’ve reversed brain aging with a simple nasal spray

BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses around the U.S., now plans to turn those cameras into automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), capturing the location of every… Read more: ‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access

Up until a decade ago, China had never launched as many as 20 orbital rockets a year. But beginning in 2022, the Asian country launched 64 rockets and last year reached a record total of… Read more: Analyst on China’s spent rocket stages: “Things only continue to get worse”

Even after being caught — and viciously criticized — for using AI to write his book about AI, one writer says he’s not giving up on the tech. While many AI writing scandals center on… Read more: Man Humiliated by His AI Use Says He Just Can’t Quit

AI can detect financial fraud more efficiently than previous technology did, but it also flags legitimate transactions that it shouldn’t. CardMapr.nl on Unsplash, CC BY Imagine you’re at the supermarket checkout. Your cart is full.… Read more: Your bank’s AI just blocked your payment – what can you do?

BearingPoint is expanding its AI portfolio with a fully owned, sovereign on-premise and edge infrastructure designed specifically for generative and agentic AI workloads in highly regulated industries and public administrations in Europe. Building on decades… Read more: BearingPoint Introduces Fully Sovereign On-Premise Infrastructure in Europe

Porsche provided flights from Albany, New York, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could drive the electric Cayenne Coupe. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MUNICH, GERMANY—Think about every fast Porsche you’ve ever… Read more: Driving Porsche’s most powerful car—and no, it’s not a 911

Remember when OpenAI was supposed to upend Hollywood by making a fully AI-generated animated movie? Such a feat would’ve been curtains for studios like Pixar, which spend hundreds of millions of dollars on each film.… Read more: OpenAI’s Attempt at an AI-Generated Pixar-Style Movie Is in Shambles

Critics of platform’s proposed new feature say it could accelerate the spread of machine-generated music Spotify’s chief executive has said the company’s move into AI-generated music offers users and creators a better alternative to unregulated… Read more: Spotify says its AI remix tool protects artists from unregulated ‘slop’

Taylor Swift has filed a trademark application covering her voice and stage image. It includes a photo of her performing in her distinctive bejewelled Eras Tour bodysuit and two voice recordings: “Hey, it’s Taylor” and… Read more: Can you own a voice? Taylor Swift’s latest legal move raises big questions for AI and copyright

Live demos and expert sessions will showcase how organization close the 68% security coverage gap in the age of AI GARTNER SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT SUMMIT — Synack, provider of a Human + AI platform… Read more: Synack Highlights Continuous Security at Gartner Summit

Purpose-built for High-Density and HPC Workloads, the Libertyville Facility Helps Enterprises Build, Validate and Deploy Production-Ready Infrastructure Faster and With Less Risk AHEAD, a leading provider of advanced enterprise AI Infrastructure, today officially opened its… Read more: AHEAD Opens New Air- and Liquid-Cooled Integration Facility

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?

From killing your chatbots to optimizing your prompts, here are the best ways to go full AI native and conquer the new world.

Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.

Autonomous AI systems are beginning to move beyond software environments and into warehouses, delivery networks, and public spaces. The development is drawing attention to whether current AI rules cover systems that operate in physical environments.… Read more: Autonomous AI systems test governance in physical environments

AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.

Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.

There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.

Some jobs may be toast. Some will survive. Click your answers to learn your fate.

The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing’s biggest transformation possibly ever.

The content creators behind channels like Chloe VS History are using AI tools to ‘bring history to life in a really visceral way’ “I have just arrived in Tudor London, 1536,” a young woman in… Read more: ‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history

This AI course helps beginners build in-demand workplace skills. The post Future-Proof Your Career With a $15 AI Fundamentals Course appeared first on TechRepublic.

Vectra AI is recognized for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Vectra AI,  the cybersecurity AI leader in protecting modern networks from modern attacks, today announced it has been named a Leader in… Read more: Vectra AI Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for NDR

WSO2 today announced the expansion of its Agent Fabric platform, the introduction of a Forward Deployed Engineering model, and the scaling of its delivery partner ecosystem to accelerate the adoption of the agentic enterprise. Announced at… Read more: WSO2 Advances Agentic AI With Expanded Enterprise Support

Company receives the highest score in the Current Offering category and is recognized as a Customer Favorite based on outstanding feedback Hyperscience, a market leader in enterprise AI infrastructure software, focused on Intelligent Document Processing… Read more: Hyperscience Leads Document Mining Platform Evaluation

Every boardroom pitch deck in 2025 told the same story: AI agents are your new digital workforce. They research leads, reconcile ledgers, orchestrate supply chains, and draft contracts. The demos were immaculate, and the ROI… Read more: AI agents keep breaking in production. Here’s why nobody’s fixed it yet.

Recent college grads are not very fond of commencement speakers hyping up a technology they see as a threat to their career prospects When Jacob Pagel graduated from Middle Tennessee State University this spring, predictions… Read more: US students on why they booed their pro-AI graduation speakers: ‘They’re not reading the room’

Scientists used some of the most advanced plasma simulations ever created to uncover how the universe builds enormous magnetic fields out of turbulence. The discovery could reshape our understanding of stars, black holes, neutron star… Read more: Massive supercomputer simulations unlock cosmic magnetic mystery

Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The discovery may finally explain the origins of several mysterious… Read more: Scientists discover a giant “planet factory” beyond Jupiter

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant gravitational slingshot to continue its journey toward a strange metal rich asteroid. The close flyby boosted the spacecraft’s speed by about 1,000 mph while also producing… Read more: NASA’s Psyche spacecraft uses Mars as a giant slingshot toward a mysterious metal world

A representation of one version of the new best arrangement of points on a plane with pairs separated by a unit distance. Álvaro Lozano-Robledo Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one… Read more: An AI solution to an 80-year-old problem has shocked mathematicians

Pope Leo XIV has just declared artificial intelligence one of the defining moral challenges of our time, in his first encyclical: a formal letter intended to guide moral, social and theological thought. Titled Magnifica Humanitas… Read more: Pope Leo warns of AI’s risks to humanity in his first encyclical

With the co-founder of Anthropic at his side today in Rome, Pope Leo XIV released a major new encyclical—his first—called “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”). It calls for AI to be “disarmed” in service of the… Read more: Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must “disarm” AI

Marten Newhall/Unsplash Global society makes billions of images and uploads hundreds of thousands of hours of video on the internet every day. The problem is, some of this content is misleading or downright wrong. And… Read more: Three ways to avoid being fooled by AI slop

Exclusive: Chancellor pushes for procurement of ships, steel, energy and AI to prioritise Britishness as well as cost Rachel Reeves has instructed cabinet colleagues to award government contracts in four critical industries directly to British… Read more: Rachel Reeves tells ministers to ‘buy British’ in four key industries

In calling for regulation of the digital revolution, and foregrounding human dignity, the pontiff has contributed to a crucial ethical debate When the present pope adopted his regnal name, he explained the choice by reference… Read more: The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first | Editorial

In the first landmark publication of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV has addressed recent advances in artificial intelligence by focusing on the threat it poses to workers, social justice and “the dignity of persons”. Presenting… Read more: ‘AI needs to be disarmed’: Pope Leo sees threat to humanity in technological arms race

Driven Tech, Inc. today announced it has signed definitive agreements to acquire TekBay LLC and ADEX International, significantly expanding the company’s Applied Intelligence platform and accelerating its ability to help enterprises operationalize AI securely, responsibly,… Read more: Driven Tech, Inc. Signs Definitive Agreements to Acquire TekBay and ADEX

With Cribl’s new integration, organizations can seamlessly apply existing security and audit workflows to their Claude Enterprise usage Cribl, the AI Platform for Telemetry, today announced a new integration with the Claude Compliance API giving… Read more: Cribl Stream Integrates with the Claude Compliance API

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how cells behave when division goes wrong. Sometimes a cell successfully copies its DNA but fails to split into two, leaving it with double the genetic material —… Read more: Scientists discover why some DNA-doubled cells refuse to die

Generative AI is transforming the workplace faster than ever, but new research from the University of Vaasa suggests the biggest threat may not be AI itself — it’s falling behind in learning how to use… Read more: AI won’t replace you but someone using AI might

Deep inside 100-million-year-old amber from Myanmar, scientists uncovered a bizarre ancient bug with clawed front legs that look more like a crab’s pincers than anything seen in modern insects. The discovery is so unusual that… Read more: 100-million-year-old bug had crab-like claws unlike any known insect

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move out of the… Read more: This prehistoric fish may explain how animals first walked on Earth

Beyond the well-known impacts generative AI has on the environment and the human psyche, it also comes with a tremendous social burden. Deepfakes — digitally altered content that’s indistinguishable from real life — have proliferated… Read more: Two Men Arrested for Creating AI Deepfake Porn

Opposition to the massive data centers that power AI is bipartisan and growing across the country. From Maine to California, more states and local communities are passing moratoriums and bans on construction of the noisy,… Read more: An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation

Across his wide-ranging career, the filmmaker Paul Schrader is probably best known for his “man in a room” style stories. They follow lonely, and usually stoic, men in the throes of some sort of existential… Read more: Paul Schrader Says His AI Girlfriend Dumped Him

I don’t like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I’m sorry to disappoint you. I know it’s confusing, and I hope you will still respect me. I had to say that a lot back in 2015.… Read more: I spent years forcing myself to finish The Witcher 3—don’t repeat my mistake

Last week, the US government announced $2 billion in investments in quantum computing companies, allocating $100 million each to a range of startups in exchange for equity in the companies. Those could be make-or-break investments… Read more: US’s big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal

Typos used to be glaring eyesores. In the age of AI, they’ve become a sight for sore eyes. In fact, Michael Waters argues in The Atlantic that small, forgivable typos are now serving as signs… Read more: People Are Loading Their Writing With Typos to Prove They’re Not AI

An “independent label” in South Carolina is churning out mountains of AI slop featuring AI-generated “viking rappers” — alongside suave Christian rockers, for some reason — and blasting it across social media sites and music… Read more: Record Label Claims That Bizarre AI-Generated “Viking Rappers” Garnering Millions of Views are Real People

Jay Morris denies experts’ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Meta’s Hyperion datacenter This story is from Floodlight, a non-profit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action… Read more: A Louisiana state senator helped secure Meta’s largest datacenter. Then he sold the land beside it

Pontiff calls for ‘most rigorous’ ethical constraints on tech and apologises for church’s delay in condemning slavery Pope Leo has denounced the “culture of power” driving the rapid rise of artificial intelligence while warning that… Read more: Pope Leo denounces ‘culture of power’ driving rise of AI

Steve Wozniak did what overpaid commencement speakers across the country have been failing to do: read the room. While giving a speech at Grand Valley State University’s graduation ceremony earlier this month, the beloved Apple… Read more: Graduating Students Cheer as Steve Wozniak Tell Them Human Intelligence Still Matters

Company unveils the next evolution of the iManage platform, advancing the secure, governed foundation where organizations’ knowledge, context, and expertise can be safely harnessed for agentic AI iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work,… Read more: iManage Unveils Next Evolution of Platform at ConnectLive 2026

The latest version of Computer, by DevRev, delivers speed with clarity, including expanded shared memory for individuals, teams, and organizations; a new content-producing desktop app; Agent Studio for AI agent development; and multiplayer AI. DevRev,… Read more: Enterprise AI is burning tokens without context and teams pay for it

Certification reinforces Deepwatch’s commitment to responsible AI innovation, enterprise-grade governance, and transparent AI-powered security operations Deepwatch today announced it has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, the international standard for artificial intelligence management systems (AIMS). The certification… Read more: Deepwatch Achieves ISO/IEC 42001 Certification for NEXA™ Agentic AI Ecosystem

As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.

OpenEvidence becomes the first multimodal medical AI, with a native speech-to-speech interface that delivers hands-free, evidence-backed answers to doctors. OpenEvidence, the most widely used medical AI platform among U.S. physicians, today launched Voice Mode, the… Read more: OpenEvidence Announced the Launch of Voice Mode

Pendo, the product intelligence company, today announced that Zain Lakhani has joined the company as its first chief AI officer. Lakhani will oversee AI engineering as Pendo scales its suite of agentic products. “The software… Read more: Pendo Appoints Zain Lakhani as First Chief AI Officer

Companies to combine agentic AI reasoning with industry-leading zero-trust, multilayered code verification platform Sonar, a global leader in AI code verification and governance, has acquired Gitar, the AI-native code review platform. Now, Sonar will deliver… Read more: Sonar Announced the Acquisition of Gitar

Build professional-grade visuals instantly with ARTA AI. The post Turn Prompts Into Pro Visual Content Fast For Just $64 appeared first on TechRepublic.

More than half of ZenBusiness customers have engaged with Velo®, including 500,000 conversations inthe last 30 days, 2x quarter-over-quarter growth in Velo-assisted sales, and 72% of customer needsresolved without a human handoff ZenBusiness®, the AI… Read more: ZenBusiness Velo Surpasses 1.5 Million Conversations

A mysterious little blue octopus discovered nearly 6,000 feet beneath the waters of the Galápagos Islands has officially been identified as a brand-new species. About the size of a golf ball, the tiny creature stunned… Read more: Adorable tiny blue octopus found nearly 6,000 feet beneath the Galápagos

Definition of green facilities made in 2022, before release of ChatGPT, says Action to Protect Rural Scotland A Scottish government policy designed to encourage datacentres to build in Scotland could lead to a massive volume… Read more: Scotland’s ‘green datacentres’ policy ignores emissions impact of AI, analysis shows

Do nothing. Win? That’s more less Nintendo’s approach to AI, and the market is rewarding the Japanese video game maker for it, in Bloomberg’s analysis. For the record, Nintendo is not a stellar stock. Investor… Read more: Nintendo Is Completely Ignoring AI and Doing Fine

We’ve already seen AI go rogue on numerous occasions. Now, new research suggests that we can expect this to become the norm. The AI research nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) recently released a… Read more: Top AI Models Showing Disturbing Behavior as They Become More Advanced

You’re playing with fire any time you combine AI and filmmaking. But a new collection of AI short films that premiered in Cannes this week — but crucially, not at the actual Cannes Film Festival… Read more: Fury Explodes at Short Films Using AI to Make Erotica of Women From the 1970s

We all know that Google Search has been a dumpster fire ever since it got taken over by AI Overviews. But as the tech conglomerate prepares to transform its search engine with AI even further,… Read more: Googling the Word “Disregard” Causes Google’s AI to Return Garbled Chatbot Ramblings

A mysterious particle from deep space has scientists buzzing after the most energetic neutrino ever detected slammed through the Mediterranean Sea. Now, researchers think they may have identified the cosmic “culprits” behind it: blazars —… Read more: Scientists may have found the source of the most powerful neutrino ever detected

In hours of underwater video footage from a New York aquarium, a beluga whale named Natasha stretches her neck, pirouettes, nods, and shakes her head in front of a two-way mirror. Her daughter Maris does… Read more: Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it

By analyzing over 400,000 Reddit posts, researchers discovered that users of popular GLP-1 weight-loss drugs frequently discussed unexpected symptoms like menstrual irregularities, chills, and hot flashes. The findings suggest AI could turn social media into… Read more: AI scans 400,000 Reddit posts and finds hidden Ozempic side effects

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known hand-held wooden tools ever used by humans — and they’re an astonishing 430,000 years old. Buried for hundreds of thousands of years at an ancient lakeside site in Greece,… Read more: Scientists discover the oldest wooden tools ever used by humans

Imagine this scenario: your algorithm has pulled up a background YouTube video, or maybe a podcast. Unbeknownst to you, hackers have embedded inaudible sounds in it, designed to hijack your smart speaker or phone’s AI… Read more: Hackers Find That Inaudible Sounds Hidden in Podcasts or Random Videos Can Hijack Your AI Voice Chatbot

A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.

Scientists have directly watched angular momentum move through a crystal for the very first time — and discovered a bizarre twist along the way. Using ultra-powerful terahertz laser pulses, researchers triggered tiny atomic rotations inside… Read more: Scientists discover atoms suddenly spinning backward in quantum experiment

As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the… Read more: I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu

PR executives say UK companies are forcing them to present ordinary automation as artificial intelligence UK companies are performing “yoga-level” stretches to describe themselves as AI specialists in an attempt to capitalise on the buzz… Read more: ‘AI washing’: firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused

Darren Aronofsky among proponents of using technology, while Guillermo del Toro says he would ‘rather die’ Under a white marquee on Cannes’ Croisette beach, with the Mediterranean glistening behind him and superyachts drifting across the… Read more: ‘We’re expanding the cinematic toolbox’: AI fault lines on show at Cannes

SpaceX launched the first test flight of its upgraded Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster Friday, with mostly positive results. The powerful rocket, propelled by 33 methane-fueled main engines, climbed away from SpaceX’s Starbase launch… Read more: SpaceX’s Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight

Barnes & Noble has been making a comeback over the past few years — which is impressive, since it once looked like the dominance of Amazon, the shift to digital books, and the decline of… Read more: Barnes and Noble CEO Says Sure, Why Not Sell AI-Generated Books and Set Our Reputation On Fire?

Data shows that more and more people are self-filing lawsuits with the help of AI chatbots. Experts warn that the influx of sometimes-dubious cases could have real consequences on the court system. Back in March,… Read more: MIT Expert Warns Courts “Will Basically Have to Grind to a Halt” as They’re Overwhelmed by AI-Generated Lawsuits

The rise of AI is many things: technological, sociological, political, even teleological. But perhaps above all, it’s financial. When OpenAI released ChatGPT back in late 2022, it quick picked up enormous user traction — and… Read more: Insiders at SoftBank Worry Their CEO Is Getting Conned by Sam Altman

NASA scientists were stunned when a strange radio signal from the Sun refused to fade away. Instead of lasting a few hours or days like normal solar radio bursts, this one persisted for an astonishing… Read more: NASA stunned as strange solar radio burst lasts 19 days

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft skimmed past Mars in a precision flyby that helped catapult it deeper into space toward its ultimate target: the bizarre metal-rich asteroid Psyche. During the encounter, it snapped detailed images of heavily… Read more: NASA’s Psyche spacecraft captures stunning Mars images during high-speed flyby