On-chip TEEs withstand rooted OSes but fall instantly to cheap physical attacks. Trusted execution environments, or TEEs, are everywhere—in blockchain […]
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10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs. “Opening locks” might not sound like scintillating social […]
We let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” surf the web for us—here’s what happened
But when will it fold my laundry? From scanning emails to building fansites, Atlas can ably automate some web-based tasks. […]
Google has a useful quantum algorithm that outperforms a supercomputer
An approach it calls “quantum echoes” takes 13,000 times longer on a supercomputer. The work relied on Google’s current-generation quantum […]
MacBook Pro review: Apple’s most awkward laptop is the first to show off Apple M5
the apple m5: one more than m4 Apple M5 trades blows with Pro and Max chips from older generations. Apple’s […]
Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?
Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions. For more than a decade, researchers have wondered whether artificial […]
Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to
from good to bad to nothing Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification. We all feel it: […]
Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand. It could be a consequential act of quiet […]
ROG Xbox Ally X: The Ars Technica review
You got Xbox in my portable gaming PC The first portable “Xbox” fails to unify a messy world of competing […]
Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
Skip to content COMING TO A PHONE NEAR YOU New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness. Credit: Aurich […]