eBay Explicitly Bans AI “Buy for Me” Agents in User Agreement Update
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The problem with revisiting Tomb Raider: Reacclimating to tank controls
For a lot of the games I’ve written about in the C:ArsGames series, I’ve come to the conclusion that the games hold up pretty well, despite their age—Master of Orion II, Jill of the Jungle, and Wing Commander Privateer, for…
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Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store
Two origin ID apps, NonUSA and Made O’Meter, are seeing downloads surge as Europeans boycott US-made goods.
Kioxia’s memory is “sold out” for 2026, prolonging a “high-end and expensive phase”
The companies that make RAM and flash memory chips are enjoying record profits because of the AI-induced memory crunch—and they’re also indicating that they don’t expect conditions to improve much if at all in 2026. And while RAM kits have…
Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity
Anthropic is overhauling Claude’s so-called “soul doc.” The new missive is a 57-page document titled “Claude’s Constitution,” which details “Anthropic’s intentions for the model’s values and behavior,” aimed not at outside readers but the model itself. The document is designed…
Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference
Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.
Apple is turning Siri into an AI bot that’s more like ChatGPT
Apple is planning a big Siri overhaul that will transform the voice assistant into an AI chatbot built directly into its iPhone and Mac, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. The update is reportedly coming later this year and will…
Get an iPhone 17 Pro, iPad, and Apple Watch bundle free with trade-in at AT&T – here’s how
Trade in your iPhone 15 or later and get a free iPhone 17 Pro, plus an iPad and an Apple Watch for just $0.99 each a month (plus the cost of a new line). Here’s what to know.
Watch a robot swarm “bloom” like a garden
Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published in the journal Science Robotics, such robotic swarms could one…