2026 • Jan 06
The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin
Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data. ...
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2025 • Dec 31
From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025
In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools. ...
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2025 • Dec 31
Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025
The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list. ...
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2025 • Dec 30
Condé Nast User database reportedly breached, Ars unaffected
A serious data breach has occurred, but Ars users have nothing to worry about. ...
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2025 • Dec 29
GPS is vulnerable to jamming—here’s how we might fix it
GPS jamming has gotten cheap and easy, but there are potential solutions. ...
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2025 • Dec 24
How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them
From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick. ...
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2025 • Dec 18
Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations
The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months. ...
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2025 • Dec 18
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy
New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse. ...
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2025 • Dec 16
Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc
The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades. ...
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2025 • Dec 16
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content
Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content. ...
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2025 • Dec 13
OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself
"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent. ...
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2025 • Dec 12
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert
Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks. ...
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