LG was once a heavyweight in the smartphone industry, trading blows with hometown rival Samsung. However, as smartphone sales plateaued, the company struggled to stay competitive. In 2021, LG planned to make waves with a… Read more: Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren’t a thing

As we have been reporting on Ars, NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission has been going rather well so far. Of course, Orion’s big test is yet to come with the fiery reentry through Earth’s atmosphere… Read more: NASA’s Moon ship and rocket seem to be working well, so what about the landers?

A poisoned LiteLLM update hit Mercor, and Meta pulled the brake. The breach is now a warning flare for AI vendors built on open-source plumbing. The post Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After LiteLLM-Linked Data… Read more: Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After LiteLLM-Linked Data Breach

At least three people warned Quittr, an app that wants to help men stop masturbating, about serious security issues for months, but the creators of the app didn’t fix them until weeks after 404 Media… Read more: Multiple Hackers Warned Anti-Porn App Quittr About Security Issue for Months

You’ve probably heard of AI psychosis. Well, now get ready for AI psychiatrists — with prescription pads. A San Francisco startup called Legion Health has been approved to let its AI app prescribe psychiatric medications… Read more: Startup Approved to Let AI System Prescribe Psychiatric Medication

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reacted awkwardly to a viral video of a ChatGPT issue. In the video, the TikTok creator known as Husk asks ChatGPT’s voice mode to start a timer for his mile run.… Read more: Sam Altman Watches Awkwardly As He’s Shown Bizarre ChatGPT Issue: “Uh, Maybe, Uhhh”

Across most of the U.S., if you want to watch porn online, you have to hand over a government ID or submit to a biometric scan to determine you’re over 18 years of age. But… Read more: Wisconsinites Can Keep Watching Porn After Governor Vetoes Age Verification Bill

Christopher Nolan has cemented his status as one of our most consistently original and thought-provoking directors. Over the last 25 years, Nolan has delivered film after film that deftly balances mainstream appeal with eye-popping visuals,… Read more: What Memento reveals about human nature, 25 years later

Humanity is about to get its first in-person, up-close look at the Moon in more than half a century. Four astronauts will spend about seven hours on Monday (April 6) observing the far side of… Read more: Why will today’s lunar flyby only beam back low-resolution video?

Sales of used electric vehicles are surging in the US as models bought during a post-pandemic boom flood back onto the market, offering prospective buyers relief from a sharp rise in petrol prices. First-quarter used… Read more: Used EV sales spike alongside gas prices

On Thursday, the New York Times published a glowing profile of a company called Medvi. The basic premise of the piece is that a single guy named Matthew Gallagher had used AI to rapidly build… Read more: Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That’s Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, a Warning From the FDA, and Other Glaring Red Flags?

Conservationists warn the move could push species closer to extinction and says clearer environmental rules are needed instead Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Conservationists and scientists have warned a… Read more: Using AI to prepare and evaluate environmental assessments risks ‘robodebt-style’ failures, scientists say

Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) police are performing dozens of license plate lookups on Flock cameras for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to public records that show details of the searches. The… Read more: Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE

Fake image of airman surrounded by smiling military members has been reshared more than 21,000 times on the X platform Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox… Read more: Republicans fooled by AI-generated image of US crew member rescued in Iran

Early in my career at SpaceX, I was the only person dedicated to training the mission control team for Dragon. For three years, I built the training for the operations […] The post The moon base has a hardware plan. It needs a software strategy, too.… Read more: The moon base has a hardware plan. It needs a software strategy, too.

The great artist and designer has summoned spiritual leaders, AI researchers and academics to try their hands at ceramics – and debate their wide-ranging positions on where tech is taking humanity Es Devlin owns a… Read more: ‘This is 160-million-year-old Jurassic clay’: inside Es Devlin’s bid to reshape AI ethics – through pottery

Instead of bouncing between AI tools, this platform puts models, file features, and creative tools together. The post This $85 AI Assistant Aims to Consolidate Your Daily Work Tools appeared first on TechRepublic.

AI systems are starting to move beyond simple responses. In many organisations, AI agents are now being tested to plan tasks, make decisions, and carry out actions with limited human input. It is no longer… Read more: As AI agents take on more tasks, governance becomes a priority

Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in.

The Rocky Linux ecosystem now has a single, authoritative destination to verify and publish hardware, software and AI infrastructure compatibility with RLC Pro, RLC Pro AI and RLC Pro Hardened, so enterprise teams can deploy… Read more: CIQ Launches C3, a Free and Open Compatibility Catalog for Rocky Linux

New plugin integrates with OpenClaw to introduce a transparent control layer for AI applications, supporting enterprise compliance and risk management Chromia by Chromaway AB announces Atbash, an Agentic State & Policy Management (SPM) plugin designed for OpenClaw. Built… Read more: Atbash Launches on Chromia to Enable Verifiable, User-Controlled AI Systems

Former Meta trust & safety lead introduces a new standard for predictable, compliant generative AI Moonbounce, the AI control engine that ensures systems behave exactly as designed at any scale, today launched with $12 million… Read more: Moonbounce Launches with $12M to Control AI Behavior

Scientists in Canada have uncovered a surprising weakness in glioblastoma, one of the deadliest brain cancers. They found that certain brain cells—once believed to only support healthy nerves—can actually help tumors grow by sending signals… Read more: Scientists find hidden brain cells helping deadly cancer grow

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages tend to evolve in predictable ways rather than… Read more: Study of 1,700 languages reveals surprising hidden patterns

AI is consuming staggering amounts of energy—already over 10% of U.S. electricity—and the demand is only accelerating. Now, researchers have unveiled a radically more efficient approach that could slash AI energy use by up to… Read more: AI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy

Vibe coding often gets a bad rep. “Vibe” is a euphemism for “not really thinking,” and that “not really thinking” part is accomplished by letting an AI spit all the code out in response to… Read more: ICE Foiled At Every Turn By One Vibe Coding Man In His Pickup Truck

Artificial intelligence remains deeply unpopular with the American public. One poll found it’s even more reviled than ICE, which is no small feat given the mass protests that erupt whenever the agency’s goons march into… Read more: Groups Set Up to Shill AI and Data Centers Are Pouring Huge Sums of Money Into the Midterm Elections

If you’re running a frontier AI company, now’s not the time to rest on your laurels. The stakes could hardly be higher: whichever corporation manages to outmaneuver its rivals stands to capture not just enormous… Read more: Nonprofit Research Groups Disturbed to Learn That OpenAI Has Secretly Been Funding Their Work

Few fears have taken hold of the public imagination quite like the specter of AI-driven unemployment. A recent survey by the think tank Data for Progress found that a majority of US voters think AI… Read more: AI Expert Says It’s Time to Stop Freaking Out About AI Taking Our Jobs

Privacy nightmares. Pervert glasses. These are some of the not-so-flattering ways detractors describe Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses. Now, we’re nominating another hellish descriptor into that list: dysmorphia accelerator. On Friday, Meta announced a host of… Read more: We Can’t Even Imagine the Eating Disorders This New Meta Smart Glasses Feature Will Cause

The Cyberspace Administration of China is cracking down on “digital humans,” with incoming regulations that will soon require labeling of AI personalities and ban programs that could harm children or lead to addiction. Those draft… Read more: China Cracking Down on the Types of AI That Are Tearing America Apart

Jeffrey Stephen Wigand revealed how tobacco companies targeted children; now he sees similar marketing by big tech A key whistleblower in the tobacco industry’s landmark trials of the 1990s has been watching big tech’s recent… Read more: ‘I always considered social media evil’: big tobacco whistleblower on tech’s addictive products

Big box chains have proudly embraced artificial intelligence — but don’t expect them to help when their AI assistants charge your card for hallucinated garbage. That trend, in which retail giants force their AI initiatives… Read more: Target Warns That If Its AI Shopping Agent Makes an Expensive Mistake, You’ll Have to Pay for It

A user on Quizlet, an online learning platform, created a public flashcard set in February that appears to have exposed highly confidential information about security procedures in US Customs and Border Protection facilities around Kingsville,… Read more: CBP facility codes sure seem to have leaked via online flashcards

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week’s replies: has a call for restraint from an authority… Read more: Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?

A hidden Roman sanctuary discovered beneath Frankfurt is offering rare clues about ancient rituals, including possible human sacrifice. With major funding secured, scientists are now racing to uncover how this mysterious, multi-god cult site operated.

Researchers have created a nanoscale structure that traps infrared light in a layer just 40 nanometers thick—over 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. By using a unique material with exceptional light-bending properties, they can… Read more: Scientists trap light in a layer 1,000x thinner than hair

Scientists have uncovered a powerful new clue in the mystery of brain aging: a single protein called FTL1. In aging mice, higher levels of this protein weakened connections between brain cells and led to memory… Read more: Scientists found a protein that drives brain aging — and how to stop it

Industry with business model not yet firmly established and investments financed by huge debts is particularly at risk Donald Trump’s most immediate concern in demanding Iran reopen the strait of Hormuz may be rocketing US… Read more: Higher energy costs from Iran war could threaten fragile economics of AI boom | Heather Stewart

Mars may look like a quiet, dusty world, but it’s actually buzzing with hidden electrical activity. Powerful dust storms and swirling dust devils generate static electricity strong enough to spark faint glowing discharges across the… Read more: Mars dust storms are sparking electricity and rewriting the planet’s chemistry

After forgetting the nibbles, refusing my costume requests and emailing GCHQ, ‘Gaskell’ did at least get us to show up Two weeks ago, an AI bot invited me to a party it was organising in… Read more: An AI bot invited me to its party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night

Scientists have taken a major step toward futuristic energy tech by building a working prototype of a quantum battery—one that can charge, store, and release energy using the strange rules of quantum physics instead of… Read more: Scientists built a quantum battery that breaks the rules of charging

A new study reveals that gut bacteria and metabolites may hold the key to detecting serious digestive diseases earlier and more easily. Using AI, scientists found that biomarkers linked to one condition can often predict… Read more: Scientists discover hidden gut signals that could detect cancer early

Modern food systems may look stable on the surface, but they are increasingly dependent on digital systems that can quietly become a major point of failure. Today, food must be “recognized” by databases and automated… Read more: Truckloads of food are being wasted because computers won’t approve them

The Orion spacecraft is now much closer to the Moon than Earth on its 10-day journey into deep space and back, and overall everything is going smashingly well. Things are going so well that, during… Read more: Artemis II is going so well that we’re left to talk about frozen urine

Right-to-repair efforts are gaining headway in the US. A lot of that movement has been led by state legislation in Colorado. Since 2022, Colorado has passed bills giving users the tools, instructions, and legal capabilities… Read more: Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law

Just weeks after the largest nurses strike in the New York City history, the CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals has a bold vision for a future where AI, not human radiologists, examines and diagnoses… Read more: America’s Largest Hospital System Ready to Start Replacing Radiologists With AI, Its CEO Says

Meme wisdom holds that modern problems require modern solutions, but what peddlers of this internet adage failed to consider is that an antiquated and possibly impractical approach could be loads more fun. We present Grit… Read more: AI Forces College Professor to Get Typewriters for Entire Class

AI company Anthropic suffered a massive leak of the source code to its Claude Code AI assistant earlier this week, triggering a panicked game of cat and mouse as company representatives sent out copyright takedown… Read more: Claude Leak Shows That Anthropic Is Tracking Users’ Vulgar Language and Deems Them “Negative”

OpenAI unceremoniously killed off its text-to-video AI app Sora last month, bringing an abrupt end to months of brain-melting AI slop. Even what was supposed to be a groundbreaking $1 billion deal with Disney was caught in… Read more: The Real Reason OpenAI Shut Sora Down Is a Warning to Every AI Startup

Saturn’s magnetic field isn’t the smooth, symmetrical shield scientists see around Earth. Instead, it’s noticeably skewed, and researchers now think they understand why. By analyzing years of data from the Cassini spacecraft, scientists found that… Read more: Saturn’s magnetic field is twisted and scientists just figured out why

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands of years—long enough for life’s building blocks to form.… Read more: Meteor impacts may have sparked life on Earth, scientists say

A new pill called baxdrostat is showing strong results in lowering dangerously high blood pressure in people who don’t respond to standard treatments. In a large global trial, patients saw their blood pressure drop by… Read more: Scientists reveal new blood pressure treatment that works when others fail

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing through massive astronomy datasets. What began as a class project quickly turned into a breakthrough when they… Read more: Students found a star from the dawn of the universe drifting into the Milky Way

Dying stars may be wiping out nearby giant planets as they expand into red giants. Astronomers found that these close-in planets become increasingly rare around more evolved stars, suggesting many have already been swallowed. The… Read more: Dying stars are devouring giant planets, astronomers discover

A new breakthrough is transforming MXenes—ultra-thin, high-tech materials—into something far more powerful and precise. Researchers have developed a cleaner, more controlled way to build these materials using molten salts and iodine, eliminating the messy chemical… Read more: MXene breakthrough boosts conductivity 160x with perfect atomic order

Astrocytes, once thought to be mere brain “support cells,” are now revealed to be key players in fear memory. Researchers found they actively help form, recall, and weaken fear responses by interacting with neurons in… Read more: These overlooked brain cells may control fear and PTSD

The advent of powerful generative AI tools has supercharged the proliferation of disinformation, with viral and fictional stories making the lives of public figures a living hell. Facebook, in particular, has been overrun with misleading… Read more: William Shatner Says AI Is Spreading Horrific Rumors About Him

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that rolled with it, went out on a limb, gravitationally waved, and spotted relics in our midst. First, hundreds of prehistoric dice sets shed… Read more: Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution

In this article, I want to cover the overall design of coding agents and agent harnesses: what they are, how they work, and how the different pieces fit together in practice. Readers of my Build… Read more: Components of A Coding Agent

OpenAI made headlines this year after announcing it was giving up on what one exec categorized as distracting “side quests,” including its Sora text-to-video app, to double down on enterprise and coding, which are lucrative… Read more: AI Is Killing Microsoft

In this article, I want to cover the overall design of coding agents and agent harnesses: what they are, how they work, and how the different pieces fit together in practice. Readers of my Build… Read more: Components of A Coding Agent

Plus: The FBI says a recent hack of its wiretap tools poses a national security risk, attackers stole Cisco source code as part of an ongoing supply chain hacking spree, and more.

When it comes to scandal, seeing is believing – which is why these images caused such a stir Words can tell a story, but it’s pictures that will make you believe in it. Such is… Read more: ‘Occasionally a picture can change the course of history’: 33 scandalous photos that shocked the world

OpenClaw fever is still going strong in tech circles. The open source AI agent, much hyped for “actually doing things,” has been embraced by many programmers to automate parts of their workflow. But could they… Read more: Say a Prayer for This Startup That’s Replacing Its Developers With OpenClaw

President Donald Trump released a budget blueprint on Friday calling for a 23 percent cut to NASA’s budget, two days after the agency launched four astronauts on the first crewed lunar mission in more than… Read more: Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon

As the Artemis II lunar mission moved into its third day on Friday, and with the spacecraft’s big engine firing behind it, the four astronauts on board had a little more downtime. So the four… Read more: As Artemis II zooms to the Moon, everything seems to be going swimmingly

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native American dice… Read more: Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability

Something’s going on at OpenAI — and it isn’t just the pre-IPO jitters. According to Bloomberg, the company behind ChatGPT is sending not just one, but two top executives away on extended medical leave. The… Read more: Two OpenAI Execs, Including CEO of AGI, Going on Medical Leave

For more than a month, security practitioners have been warning about the perils of using OpenClaw, the viral AI agentic tool that has taken the development community by storm. A recently fixed vulnerability provides an… Read more: OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

Donald Trump is facing significant hurdles after declaring, in a series of executive orders last year, that rapid construction of AI data centers was among his top priorities to ensure the US wins the AI… Read more: Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing

When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human… Read more: “Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Banks and other firms that want to work on SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) are being required to buy subscriptions to the Grok AI service, The New York Times reported today. Elon Musk “is requiring… Read more: Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions

Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has finally dished on Disney’s reaction to his decision to kill the company’s AI video generator app, Sora — scuttling a billion dollar deal the two giants had planned.  Given the… Read more: Sam Altman Opens Up About Telling CEO of Disney That It Had All Been Smoke and Mirrors

Today, there are 94 nuclear reactors operating in the United States, more than in any other country in the world, and these units collectively provide nearly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. That is a… Read more: Working to advance the nuclear renaissance

Google Vids adds AI avatar controls, custom music, and YouTube publishing, positioning itself as a powerful new competitor in AI video creation. The post Google Vids Just Got a Major AI Upgrade — Here’s What’s… Read more: Google Vids Just Got a Major AI Upgrade — Here’s What’s New

The company is undergoing major leadership restructuring as its CEO of AGI deployment goes on leave for “several weeks.”

A Rome court has ruled that the price hikes Netflix imposed on subscribers in Italy in 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2024 were unlawful. The court ordered Netflix to refund affected customers by up to 500… Read more: Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from March 30–April 3. The post AI Breakthroughs, Security Breaches, and Industry Shakeups Define the Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss crypto, journalists using AI, and a cool… Read more: Behind the Blog: Systems As Designed

Addition of Rack-Scale Technology, Systems Expertise and Key Engineering Talent to Accelerate Deployment of Low-Latency, Highly Efficient AI Inference at Scale d-Matrix, the pioneer in low-latency AI inference compute for data centers, today announced the acquisition… Read more: d-Matrix Acquires GigaIO Data Center Business

With the war in the Persian Gulf now more than a month old, the effect on fuel prices is plain to see: On average, they’re up almost a dollar per gallon, or 25 percent, according… Read more: EV adoption in America: Who’s winning, who’s losing?

The world simply wasn’t ready for AI powered tractors. Or perhaps it was Monarch Tractor, the much-hyped company that promised to revolutionize agriculture when it launched these electric-powered autonomous farm machines in 2023, that wasn’t… Read more: AI-Powered Tractor Startup Burns Through a Quarter Billion Dollars, Fires All Employees in Epic Implosion

OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon “side quests” and focus on its core business. The… Read more: OpenAI takes on another “side quest,” buys tech-focused talk show TBPN

Body that funds Alan Turing Institute says it should offer better strategy and more value for money The UK’s leading AI research institute has been told to make “significant” changes by its main source of… Read more: UK’s leading AI research institute told to make ‘significant’ changes

The AI industry largely acts as if it’s above lowly copyright laws — unless, of course, those laws happen to be protecting its own interests. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Anthropic is scrambling to… Read more: Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude’s Source Code

Alloy’s platform will now directly integrate Plaid solutions to improve risk management in onboarding and underwriting, making it fast and easy to test and implement new tools to stay ahead of fraud Alloy, a leading identity… Read more: Alloy Partners with Plaid to Expand AI Risk Solutions Access

The new crop of portable jump starters means you’ll never be stuck waiting on a tow. Here are the devices we’d trust.

Integrated time-series, vector, and GPU compute enables production-scale AI by eliminating handoffs across research, backtesting, and live trading workflows KX, a global leader in real-time, time-series, and AI-driven analytics, today announced the general availability of KDB-X,… Read more: KX Delivers GPU-Accelerated Advantage for Real-Time AI in Capital Markets

Algolia, the AI Search and Retrieval platform trusted by more than 18,000 businesses and millions of developers worldwide, today announced the appointment of Stephen Lynch as Chief Executive Officer. Lynch succeeds Bernadette Nixon, who transitioned… Read more: Algolia Announced the Appointment of Stephen Lynch as CEO

A new study reveals that aging lungs may play a major role in why flu and COVID can become so dangerous for older adults. Researchers found that certain lung cells can trigger an exaggerated immune… Read more: Scientists discover why flu and COVID hit older adults so hard

A puzzling wrinkled rock formation in Morocco has led scientists to rethink where ancient microbes could live. Instead of shallow, sunlit waters, these microbes may have thrived deep in the ocean, fueled by chemicals delivered… Read more: Strange “elephant skin” rocks reveal ancient life in the dark ocean

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of reality. The mutation disrupts a brain circuit involved in flexible decision-making, causing mice to stick with outdated choices… Read more: A gene mutation may trap the brain in the wrong reality in schizophrenia patients

Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees nesting inside fossilized bones. After giant barn owls repeatedly brought prey like hutias into… Read more: Ancient bees found nesting inside fossil bones in rare cave discovery

A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into… Read more: Deafness reversed: One injection restores hearing in just weeks

A new clinical trial suggests that what people eat could finally offer real relief for Crohn’s disease, a condition that has long lacked clear dietary guidance. Researchers found that a “fasting-mimicking diet” — involving just… Read more: This 5-day diet helped Crohn’s patients feel better fast

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old specimen where no claw should exist. That detail revealed Megachelicerax cousteaui, the oldest known… Read more: This tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin of spiders

Fast fashion might come with a hidden danger: lead. Researchers testing children’s shirts from multiple retailers found every sample exceeded U.S. safety limits, raising concerns about toxic exposure—especially since young kids often chew on clothing.… Read more: Study finds dangerous lead levels in children’s clothing

A new study suggests that one of the most widely used health metrics, BMI, may be getting it wrong for a large portion of the population. By comparing BMI classifications with precise body fat measurements… Read more: Scientists say BMI gets it wrong for over one third of adults