Enlarge / Artist’s impression of how to keep your digital stuff safe from all kinds of threats. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 20 with 19 posters participating Share this story I spend most of my time these days investigating the uglier side of digital life—examining the techniques, tools, and practices of cyber criminals… Read More: Securing your digital life, part one: The basics »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 458 with 221 posters participating Share this story This is the story of the mastermind behind one of the largest “fake news” operations in the US. For two years, he ran websites and Facebook groups that spread bogus stories, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. Under him was a dedicated… Read More: “Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks… »
reader comments 62 with 46 posters participating, including story author Share this story Microsoft wanted everyone to use Windows 10. Faced with slow adoption of Windows 8 and the stubborn popularity of Windows 7, Microsoft made Windows 10 a free upgrade for anyone using either version—the offer technically expired years ago, but to this day,… Read More: Windows 11: The Ars Technica review »
reader comments 52 with 45 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Mike Davies, director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab, explains the company’s efforts in this area. And with the launch of a new neuromorphic chip this week, he talked Ars through the updates. Despite their name, neural networks are only distantly related to the… Read More: Intel launches its next-generation neuromorphic processor—so, what’s that again? »
reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating Share this story Androids: The team that built the Android operating system is a new book from longtime Android engineer Chet Haase. Haase has been on the Android team since 2010, and he interviewed dozens of Googlers for this book, which offers a behind-the-scenes look at early Android… Read More: Excerpt: How Google bought Android—according to folks in the room »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 78 with 65 posters participating Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We may have bitten off more than we could chew, folks. An Amazon engineer told me that when he heard what I was trying to do with Ars headlines, the first thing he… Read More: Ars AI headline experiment finale—we came, we saw, we used… »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 79 with 57 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We’re in phase three of our machine-learning project now—that is, we’ve gotten past denial and anger, and we’re now sliding into bargaining and depression. I’ve been tasked with using Ars… Read More: Our AI headline experiment continues: Did we break the machine? »
Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. reader comments 63 with 43 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories There’s a moment in any foray into new technological territory when you realize you may have embarked on a Sisyphean task. Staring at the multitude… Read More: Feeding the machine: We give an AI some headlines and… »
reader comments 79 with 51 posters participating, including story author Share this story Every day, some little piece of logic constructed by very specific bits of artificial intelligence technology makes decisions that affect how you experience the world. It could be the ads that get served up to you on social media or shopping sites,… Read More: Is our machine learning? Ars takes a dip into artificial… »
Daytime Emmy Nominated re-recording mixer James Parnell was nominated for his work on Netflix’s Trinkets. As such, we decided to speak to him about the challenges and rewards of working on this series. Trinkets follows the story of three teenagers who find an unexpected connection when they all land in the same Shoplifters Anonymous group. James’ past… Read More: Re-Recording Mixer James Parnell Talks Working on Trinkets & Moonlight »