One month ago, the US Commerce Department issued an exceptionally broad set of prohibitions on exports to China of semiconductor chips and other high-tech equipment. The very technical nature of the export controls might obscure just how consequential this new…
He also proposed that those paying the $8 per month fee would get their tweets boosted in replies, mentions, and searches, prompting criticism from some people on Twitter that he was creating a two-tier system that would benefit those willing…
Elon Musk has only been in charge of Twitter since late October. But already, he’s turned the company and its platform upside down. In the days after Musk took over, he booted top executives, slashed rank-and-file headcount, pushed engineers to…
Enlarge / AI-generated portraits of Slavoj Žižek and Werner Herzog from The Infinite Conversation. Giacomo Miceli / Ars Technica reader comments 70 with 61 posters participating, including story author Share this story This week, an Italian artist and programmer named…
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The resulting mood decoder enabled the researchers to identify how each of the volunteers was feeling on the basis of readouts from the electrodes in their brains. In theory, it should be possible to apply this technology more widely, allowing…
Enlarge / Variations of “a photo of a happy corgi puppy with fancy sunglasses on sitting and facing forward, studio light, longshot” generated by OpenAI’s DALL-E. reader comments 37 with 29 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, OpenAI announced…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to open a bureau specifically devoted to space. This new office, the agency announced on Thursday, will focus on regulating the tens of thousands of communications satellites that companies plan to launch into orbit…
From October 27 through November 1, Bot Sentinel found that 11,535 accounts they were monitoring had been deactivated—meaning someone chose to close an account down. A further 6,824 were suspended, which happens when Twitter proactively removes accounts for inactivity, inauthenticity,…