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Die EU-Kommission verschärft die Effizienzstandards für Ladegeräte. Ab 2028 wird USB-C zum verpflichtenden Standard für noch mehr Geräte. (USB-C, Netzteil)
It’s unclear if Kennedy will follow through, but he supports the conspiracy theory.
A prominent voice in the Make America Healthy Again movement is pushing for health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to make the topic of chemtrail conspiracy theories a federal priority, according to a report by KFF News.
KFF obtained a memo, written by MAHA influencer Gray Delany in July, presenting the topic to Calley Means, a White House health advisor. The memo lays out a series of unsubstantiated and far-fetched claims that academic researchers and federal agencies are secretively spreading toxic substances from airplanes, poisoning Americans and spurring large-scale weather events, such as the devastating flooding in Texas last summer.
“It is unconscionable that anyone should be allowed to spray known neurotoxins and environmental toxins over our nation’s citizens, their land, food and water supplies,” Delany writes in the memo.
Copilot expands with an emphasis on creating and editing files, voice input.
Like virtually every major Windows announcement in the last three years, the spate of features that Microsoft announced for the operating system today all revolve around generative AI. In particular, they’re concerned with the company’s more recent preoccupation with “agentic” AI, an industry buzzword for “telling AI-powered software to perform a task, which it then does in the background while you move on to other things.”
But the overarching impression I got, both from reading the announcement and sitting through a press briefing earlier this month, is that Microsoft is using language models and other generative AI technologies to try again with Cortana, Microsoft’s failed and discontinued entry in the voice assistant wars of the 2010s.
According to Microsoft’s Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi, “AI PCs” should be able to recognize input “naturally, in text or voice,” to be able to guide users based on what’s on their screens at any given moment, and that AI assistants “should be able to take action on your behalf.”
Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.
Hacking groups—at least one of which works on behalf of the North Korean government—have found a new and inexpensive way to distribute malware from “bulletproof” hosts: stashing them on public cryptocurrency blockchains.
In a Thursday post, members of the Google Threat Intelligence Group said the technique provides the hackers with their own “bulletproof” host, a term that describes cloud platforms that are largely immune from takedowns by law enforcement and pressure from security researchers. More traditionally, these hosts are located in countries without treaties agreeing to enforce criminal laws from the US and other nations. These services often charge hefty sums and cater to criminals spreading malware or peddling child sexual abuse material and wares sold in crime-based flea markets.
Since February, Google researchers have observed two groups turning to a newer technique to infect targets with credential stealers and other forms of malware. The method, known as EtherHiding, embeds the malware in smart contracts, which are essentially apps that reside on blockchains for Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies. Two or more parties then enter into an agreement spelled out in the contract. When certain conditions are met, the apps enforce the contract terms in a way that, at least theoretically, is immutable and independent of any central authority.
Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAI’s finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman.
On Tuesday of last week, Ars Technica hosted a live conversation with Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast and one of tech’s most vocal AI critics, to discuss whether the generative AI industry is experiencing a bubble and when it might burst. My Internet connection had other plans, though, dropping out multiple times and forcing Ars Technica’s Lee Hutchinson to jump in as an excellent emergency backup host.
During the times my connection cooperated, Zitron and I covered OpenAI’s financial issues, lofty infrastructure promises, and why the AI hype machine keeps rolling despite some arguably shaky economics underneath. Lee’s probing questions about per-user costs revealed a potential flaw in AI subscription models: Companies can’t predict whether a user will cost them $2 or $10,000 per month.
You can watch a recording of the event on YouTube or in the window below.
Does your phone even have a Mind Space?
OnePlus is expected to take the wraps off the OnePlus 15 in the next few weeks, but before that, it's giving us a look at the software that will run on it. OxygenOS 16, which is based on Android 16, will also come to the company's other supported phones, and it's going to include a heaping helping of AI features. OnePlus was slower than most smartphone makers to embrace AI, but it's full-steam ahead now with new Gemini integrations.
OxygenOS 16 is described by OnePlus in grandiose terms as "a defiant rebellion for authenticity." In the real world, this update is doing a lot of the same things as other AI-heavy smartphones. It's not all AI—OnePlus notes that OxygenOS 16 will include revamped animations that have been carefully designed for smoothness, as well as the O+ remote app that gives you remote access to Windows and Mac PCs. The lock screen is also more customizable, borrowing a page from the likes of Apple and Samsung.
OnePlus began embracing AI back in June, when it launched a feature called Mind Space on the OnePlus 13S. That phone was only for the Indian market, but the rest of the world will get this and more with OxygenOS 16. At launch, Mind Space would collect your screenshots and brief voice messages. Mind Space would analyze the screenshots to create calendar entries and not much else.
There are a growing number of tablets with E Ink displays and digital pens that promise a paper-like experience for writing notes and drawing pictures. And at first glance, it’d be easy to mistake the Eazeye Paper 2.0 for one of those… but …
There are a growing number of tablets with E Ink displays and digital pens that promise a paper-like experience for writing notes and drawing pictures. And at first glance, it’d be easy to mistake the Eazeye Paper 2.0 for one of those… but it’s something different. Instead of an E Ink display, this tablet has […]
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Music companies want ISPs to terminate repeat infringers or pay big damages.
Record labels Sony, Warner, and Universal yesterday asked the Supreme Court to help it boot pirates off the Internet.
Sony and the other labels filed their brief in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, a case involving the cable Internet service provider that rebuffed labels' demands for mass terminations of broadband subscribers accused of repeat copyright infringement. The Supreme Court's eventual decision in the case may determine whether Internet service providers must terminate the accounts of alleged pirates in order to avoid massive financial liability.
Cox has argued that copyright-infringement notices—which are generated by bots and flag users based on their IP addresses—sent by record labels are unreliable. Cox said ISPs can't verify whether the notices are accurate and that terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.
The bundle starts at $15/month, compared to $21/month if purchased separately.
In a rarity for Apple’s streaming service, users will be able to buy bundled subscriptions to Apple TV and Peacock for a discount, starting on October 20.
On its own, the Apple TV streaming service (which was called Apple TV+ until Monday) is $13 per month. NBCUniversal’s Peacock starts at $8/month with ads and $11/month without ads. With the upcoming bundle, people can subscribe to both for a total of $15/month or $20/month, depending on whether Peacock has ads or not (Apple TV never has ads).
People can buy the bundles through either Apple’s or Peacock’s websites and apps.
When I was looking for a high-quality external touchpad to use with my Windows computer this summer, there was basically only one option. And for the most part I’ve been pretty happy with the Ploopy TrackPad that I’ve been using for the las…
When I was looking for a high-quality external touchpad to use with my Windows computer this summer, there was basically only one option. And for the most part I’ve been pretty happy with the Ploopy TrackPad that I’ve been using for the last few months. But there are some features that it lacks, like Bluetooth […]
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Die EU-Kommission verschärft die Effizienzstandards für Ladegeräte. Ab 2028 wird USB-C zum verpflichtenden Standard für noch mehr Geräte. (