2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1239+ words) “I didn’t know that AI could hallucinate facts,” New Mexico defense lawyer says. The New Mexico Supreme Court held a ChatGPT-using lawyer in direct contempt of court for submitting a brief with “false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses,” including fake…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (476+ words) Judge tosses lawsuits, says plaintiffs didn’t allege any real privacy violation. “The federal court determined that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the LinkedIn users’ claims,” Howell told Ars today. “The court did not adjudicate whether LinkedIn’s surveillance practices were lawful....

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (379+ words) App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming. As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1034+ words) “Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.” Doug Kreuzkamp was shocked when news outlets reported that Google won an auction to buy a huge amount of operational data as part of Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy proceedings. Kreuzkamp founded a…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (426+ words) The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life. Níckolas de Aguiar Alves, a physicist at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil, had first watched Next Generation as a Master’s student. When he got to…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (683+ words) Apple’s first foldable can be yours next month. Apple ended today’s hardware event with one of its classic “One more thing” reveals. Some smartphone makers have been offering foldable phones for the better part of a decade, but Apple has…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (435+ words) AirPods 5 with noise cancellation is cheaper than its predecessor. Apple has debuted the new AirPods 5 with improved active noise cancellation and sound quality—aiming to provide improved listening and user features at a lower launch price than the predecessor AirPods…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (362+ words) New Apple Intelligence features, too. Apple announced the Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today. Both include a new “Health Sensing System” and S11 chip that Apple claimed during its fall event today give the devices the “most accurate heart rate sensing in…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (201+ words) There’s also a new thermal management system, reducing overheating. As usual, the new iPhone has a new chip. It’s called A20 Pro, and it’s the first 2 nm chip for the iPhone. It has a 6-core CPU, with two super-cores that are…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (481+ words) “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” When a prominent researcher quits a job at a frontier AI lab these days, it’s often to pursue a new startup or protest a new business model. But AI researcher…...