Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.
Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat
US won’t back down from fight to deport technology researchers.
A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater
The trick isn’t using perovskites—the trick is making them last.
The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pac…
Prehistoric builders transported Devil's Arrows 11 miles
Isotopic analysis revealed the most likely source to be Brimham Rocks, not the nearby Plumpton Rocks.
Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review
Valve’s new $1,059 VR hardware tries to revive an abandoned VR “revolution.”
"Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up
Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities.
Donated livers can be made biologically younger
Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a preservative solution, bag it, and put it on ice—where it immediately starts to degrade. The team has a …
AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by …