AI Can No Longer Rampage Through Rust’s Code Repo
The Rust project has implemented a formal LLM policy, which pushes people to use LLMs to analyze/think through code, not write it. With how it
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Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises
Dario Amodei wrote on X that the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that they have not yet delivered on their promises
R-rated director’s cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter’s original horror vision
There is a lot of excitement and some trepidation among The X-Files fans about Ryan Coogler’s reboot for Hulu, currently in production. While we’re waiting
Taylor Farms’ connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response
As Americans cook their vegetables to at least 158°F to kill a diarrheal parasite that has sickened over 24,000 people and killed two this summer
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text
OpenAI has launched Computer History, a ChatGPT feature that records clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app switches on macOS to build a searchable memory. The
Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
In 1965, a presidential advisory panel issued a report warning that pervasive chemical and carbon pollution was harming environmental health and changing the climate. Five
Judge gives Google one week to fix “anticompetitive” app store download in Google Play
Google began offering third-party app store downloads in the Play Store earlier this week, but US District Judge James Donato says the company isn’t doing
Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update
Mastercard transactions were declined across Australia on Saturday afternoon after what the company describes as a scheduled system update, with more than 1,900 outage reports
Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published
Policy experts: Europe stuck between “rock and a hard place” on launch
A decade ago, SpaceX began to land the first stages of the Falcon 9 rocket with some regularity, but it’s only within the last five
Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
Video Game Preservation: Saving Yesterday’s Games for Tomorrow’s Players | Ars Live This week, Ars hosted a live discussion with Ross Scott about the Stop
Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing
Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility
A phone company just lost 1.6 million records to a phone call
Have I Been Pwned logged the leaked records, and The Register reported the dump on 14 August. Jessica Lyons, its cybersecurity editor, wrote it. A
Overshared to an AI? Proton’s Tool Will Give You a Reality Check
Proton has launched AI Paper Trail, a free tool that shows people what their AI chatbot conversations reveal about them. It runs on Lumo (partner