The Best of Ars Technica

A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible.

AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.

Manhattan Project physicist was infamously stripped of his security clearance in 1954.

Highlights from a year when generative AI went mainstream.

Password manager says breach it disclosed in August was much worse than thought.

For a beta, ChatGPT isn't all that bad at writing fairly decent malware.

As DALL-E synthesis comes to Shutterstock, Getty Images makes countermoves.

Stealth win for AI-generated art inspires heated ethics debate on social media.

Hardware keys are more secure—and finally ready for the masses.

Europe's Digital Markets Act was the catalyst.

AI image synthesis goes open source, with big implications.

«Image synthesis arguably brings implications as big as the invention of the camera—or perhaps the creation of visual art itself. Even our sense of history might be at stake, depending on how things shake out. Either way, Stable Diffusion is leading a new wave of deep learning creative tools that are poised to revolutionize the creation of visual media»

Smaller art communities are banning image synthesis amid a wider art ethics debate.

Amazon Prime Air wants to deliver packages within 60 minutes.

From Akalabeth to Xenobia, many rare PC titles are now considered elaborate scams.

Adversarial policy attacks blind spots in the AI—with broader implications than games.

Will this be the one smart home standard to rule them all or just another entry?

Shodan search engine is only the latest reminder of why we need to fix IoT security.

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You've heard for years that easier, more secure logins are imminent. That day is here.

Technique could allow high-quality calls and music on low-quality connections.

Tesla just shifted the goalposts for "full self-driving" technology.

You may want to think twice before giving the parking attendant your Tesla-issued NFC card.

Amazon- and Google-approved apps turned both voice-controlled devices into "smart spies."

Meet LeakyPick, the low-cost audio spy detector for network-connected devices.

We wrap our hands around the basics of AI/ML and show you how to get a model off the ground.

Deep field images of the universe, exoplanet atmospheres, and more to be unveiled.

Your productivity, your health, and your sanity: We have your home office covered.

«Do you like background noise? Set up an unobtrusive radio feed so that your home office environment doesn't feel overbearingly silen»

Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser.

Machine-learning software fills in missing details to produce realistic images.