State-level AI regulations are advancing faster than federal efforts, creating new compliance challenges for enterprises, and prompting Silicon Valley to increase political spending to influence the outcome. Meta is the latest to escalate its efforts, committing tens of millions of dollars to a new bipartisan super PAC that will support tech-friendly candidates across the country,

In today’s hybrid workplaces, endpoints have become both indispensable and increasingly vulnerable. Employees depend on a diverse range of devices — laptops, smartphones, and internet-of-things sensors — to stay productive anywhere. However, this proliferation of endpoints makes it tougher for IT teams to maintain consistent security, patching, and compliance. Devices remain prime targets for malware,

No one wants a heat wave burning in the heart of their smartphone. That’s why Apple developed an advanced vapor chamber system for the powerful A19 Pro chip inside its latest iPhone 17 Pro phones. Apple’s A19-based Pro iPhones are probably the most powerful smartphones on the planet, packing what the company calls MacBook Pro level

Author: Rodrigo Coutinho, Co-Founder and AI Product Manager at OutSystems AI has moved beyond pilot projects and future promises. Today, it’s embedded in industries, with more than three-quarters of organisations (78%) now using AI in at least one business function. The next leap, however, is agentic AI: systems that don’t just provide insights or automate

OpenAI and Nvidia have signed a letter of intent for a $100B partnership that could reshape how AI systems are trained and deployed. The plan calls for at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia hardware to support OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure, which will train and run future models aimed at superintelligence. To support the rollout, Nvidia

The retail industry is among the leaders in generative AI adoption, but a new report highlights the security costs that accompany it. According to cybersecurity firm Netskope, the retail sector has all but universally adopted the technology, with 95% of organisations now using generative AI applications. That’s a huge jump from 73% just a year

If an Iranian taxi driver waves away your payment, saying, “Be my guest this time,” accepting their offer would be a cultural disaster. They expect you to insist on paying—probably three times—before they’ll take your money. This dance of refusal and counter-refusal, called taarof, governs countless daily interactions in Persian culture. And AI models are

Servers running on motherboards sold by Supermicro contain high-severity vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs even before the operating system, making infections impossible to detect or remove without unusual protections in place. One of the two vulnerabilities is the result of an incomplete patch Supermicro released in January, said

Director Andy Muschietti’s two-film adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling horror novel IT racked up over $1 billion at the box office worldwide. Now Muschietti is back with a nine-episode prequel series for HBO, IT: Welcome to Derry, exploring the origins of Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård), the ancient evil that terrorized the fictional town every 27

The idea of using an electric vehicle’s battery to send energy from the EV to the electrical grid is not a new idea. Ars first covered the technology, known as vehicle-to-grid or V2G, back in 2009 when Ford and American Electric Power in Ohio started playing with the idea, although that pilot involved hybrids rather