It’s hard right now to be a progressive Democrat in the heart of America’s tech industry.
(BPRW) JESSIE TRICE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION TO HOST THE 15th ANNUAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR
(Black PR Wire) MIAMI, FL – The Jessie Trice Community Health Foundation (JTCHF) will host their 15th Annual Science and Engineering Fair. The event, committed to increasing our youth’s reliance on science, is the brain trust o…
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion
The funding is part of an A.I. frenzy, as investors aggressively plow enormous sums into fast-growing start-ups at sky-high valuations.
A.I. Images of Maduro Spread Rapidly, Despite Safeguards
Deepfakes of Venezuela’s ousted president, Nicolás Maduro, flooded the internet after his capture, in a new collision of breaking news and artificial intelligence.
Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes
At the CES conference, Jensen Huang, the company’s chief executive, said the more efficient and powerful chip would begin shipping later this year.
The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin
Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that’s among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning of the year. According to the California Privacy Protection Agency, more than 500 companies actively scour all sorts of sources...
Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025
In a roundup of the top stories of 2024, Ars included a supply-chain attack that came dangerously close to inflicting a catastrophe for thousands—possibly millions—of organizations, which included a large assortment of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Supply-chain attacks played prominently again this year, as a seemingly unending rash of them hit organizations large...
From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025
Following two years of immense hype in 2023 and 2024, this year felt more like a settling-in period for the LLM-based token prediction industry. After more than two years of public fretting over AI models as future threats to human civilization or the seedlings of future gods, it’s starting to look like hype is giving way to pragmatism:...
Condé Nast user database reportedly breached, Ars unaffected
Earlier this month, a hacker named Lovely claimed to have breached a Condé Nast user database and released a list of more than 2.3 million user records from our sister publication WIRED. The released materials contain demographic information (name, email, address, phone, etc.) but no passwords. The hacker also says that they will release an...
GPS is vulnerable to jamming—here’s how we might fix it
In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far eastern arm, some 40 miles from the Russian coast. The cloud deck was low, and so was visibility. In such gray situations, pilots use GPS technology to help them land on a runway and not...