Seven Ohio cops who raided a rapper known as Afroman's house last summer are now suing the rapper after Afroman made music videos using footage from the raid. The Adams County Sheriff's Office police ...
"Women, life, freedom" became the protest chant of a revolution still raging in Iran months after a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died while in custody of morality police. Amini was arrested...
It starts as a reasonable question: If the Earth's climate changed before humans existed, how can we be so sure the current change is due to us and not something natural?To answer that question, we ne...
Lala Kent knows why you hire a Biglaw attorney. (Photo by Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)Even folks who turn their nose up at reality TV have, at this point, have heard about the Vanderpump Rules love tr...
At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday, FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed for the first time that the agency has in the past purchased the location data of US citizens without obta...
If you're waiting for a more powerful version of the Steam Deck before diving in on Valve's Linux-based portable hardware, you may find yourself waiting a little while longer. In a recent interview wi...
Elon Musk and the EU are in a dispute over the Twitter owner's plan to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence to help moderate the social media platform, as the company responds to strict new...
When Elon Musk blamed Twitter's outage yesterday on code that "is extremely brittle for no good reason," he ignored the effect his massive layoffs had on Twitter's ability to keep the site running.Twi...
United States lawmakers seem to be exploring every possible path to potentially ban TikTok nationwide. The latest push comes today from Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who this afternoon will lead a dozen s...
(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty)Georgia Republicans are staunch law and order types who back the blue and support local control ... except when Democrats succeed in electing district attorneys who enforce...
Zarta, a new ad-free creator platform that focuses on pay-per-view video content, announced today that it has closed a $5.7 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The platform allows cr...
Over the past few years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) saw worrying trends indicating that teen sextortion is on the rise online and, in extreme cases, leads to suicid...
After a former town employee of Cohasset, Massachusetts, was accused of stealing thousands of dollars in electricity from a local middle/high school to operate a secret cryptocurrency mine in a seemin...
On Wednesday and Thursday, Twitter's internal Slack channels were suddenly shut down. Platformer reported that the company manually shut services off. Before that was confirmed, a Twitter employee pos...
Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments to decide whether Section 230 immunity shields online platforms from liabilities when relying on algorithms to make targeted recommendations. Many Section...
Price parity with traditional foods is one of the main challenges for alternative protein startups. However, the avian flu, a shortage of cage-free eggs and a subsequent rise in prices in late 2022 se...
Technologist and researcher Aviv Ovadya isn't sure that generative AI can be governed, but he thinks the most plausible means of keeping it in check might just be entrusting those who will be impacted...
We review a lot of hardware at Ars, and part of that review process involves running benchmark apps. The exact apps we use may change over time and based on what we're trying to measure, but the purpo...
Five EU member states and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group have launched a new fund to support the late-stage growth of promising European tech startups and increase the continent's competitiv...
Last week, Twitter Safety tweeted that the platform is now "moving faster than ever" to remove child sexual abuse materials (CSAM). It seems, however, that's not entirely accurate. Child safety advoca...