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FTX on brink of collapse after “liquidity crunch” at crypto exchange

Enlarge / Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on December 8, 2021. (credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty) The digital assets industry has been…

Ars OpenForum & Commenting System are getting a big upgrade

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) We’ve spent months getting ready, and tonight (around 1 am ET on Wednesday) we’re flipping the switch on a major upgrade to our community platform, which…

Patches for 6 zero-days under active exploit are now available from Microsoft

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It’s the second Tuesday of the month, and that means it’s Update Tuesday, the monthly release of security patches available for nearly all software Microsoft supports. This time around,…

New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs

Enlarge / Go pieces and a rulebook on a Go board. (credit: Getty Images) In the world of deep-learning AI, the ancient board game Go looms large. Until 2016, the best human Go…

Hacker took pains to hide $3.36B of stolen bitcoin. Feds found it anyway

Enlarge / Bitcoin laundering concept vector illustration. Federal prosecutors have recovered $3.36 billion in bitcoin that was stolen a decade ago from Silk Road, the dark web bazaar responsible for distributing massive quantities…

Algorithms quietly run the city of DC—and maybe your hometown

Enlarge (credit: Dmitry Marchenko/Getty Images) Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies…

Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation

Enlarge / AI-generated portraits of Slavoj Žižek and Werner Herzog from The Infinite Conversation. (credit: Giacomo Miceli / Ars Technica) This week, an Italian artist and programmer named Giacomo Miceli debuted The Infinite…

Why Egypt became one of the biggest chokepoints for Internet cables

Enlarge (credit: imaginima/Getty Images) The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 Internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France. As it snakes through the South China Sea and toward Europe, the cable…

OpenAI debuts DALL-E API so devs can integrate its AI artwork into their apps

Enlarge / Variations of "a photo of a happy corgi puppy with fancy sunglasses on sitting and facing forward, studio light, longshot" generated by OpenAI's DALL-E. (credit: OpenAI) On Thursday, OpenAI announced the…

Intel’s oft-delayed “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon CPUs are finally coming in early 2023

Enlarge / Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs. (credit: Intel) Intel's next-generation Xeon CPUs based on the new Sapphire Rapids architecture have been delayed more than once, but Intel is finally gearing up to…