OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government is investigating a June incident in which an OpenAI agent accessed “non-public files” from the country’s online Medicare statistics ...

Contrary to some reports, you don’t have two brains

Late last week, we started seeing headlines about how new research was suggesting we might have two brains instead of the one ...

NASA chief concerned China may deny access to parts of South Pole

Isaacman’s comments come amid a debate about whether it really matters if NASA gets back to the Moon with humans before China lands there. The Asian nation has set a target of landing its first ...

Formula 1 looks at 3.0 L V8 turbos and smaller hybrids for 2030

F1 wants smaller, lighter cars that are not energy-starved like the 2026 hybrids. We’re not even a full year into the new regulations, and Formula 1 is already thinking hard about its next iteration, ...

RFK Jr.’s CDC isn’t letting states order COVID-19 shots for kids, blocking access

As respiratory virus season nears and fall vaccination drives get underway, more than half of US children are facing ...

There’s a new way to break RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before

The world has known for decades that the RSA cryptosystem’s days are numbered. Once quantum computing becomes practical (estimates for that range from 3 to 20 or more years), the foundational security ...

Google’s first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1

Google is taking its first step toward making Project Suncatcher a reality. Announced last year, Suncatcher is Google’s “moonshot” effort to design orbital AI data centers, which AI boosters like Elon ...

Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say

When Trump or CEOs like Sam Altman advocate for American-led global AI standards, all China probably sees is the US wielding ...

FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real

In a message posted on the dark web that was reviewed by Ars, ShinyHunters said it was “severely offended” that the FBI ...

Review: Apple’s hyper-pricey M5 Ultra Mac Studio made me into a vibe coder

The Mac Pro is dead. When Apple was using Intel processors and AMD GPUs, the idea of an expandable and upgradeable tower made sense. But Apple Silicon chips bring the CPU, GPU, and memory interface ...

Netflix releases trailer for Brad Bird’s Ray Gunn

Bird has been kicking around the idea for Ray Gunn for the last 30 years, working on his many other film projects while the ...

Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain

Mark Zuckerberg said Meta’s new personal AI agent Muse has become the “centrepiece” of his AI vision, as he unveiled a new handheld AI “charm” device that will feature the interactive assistant. The ...