Bentley provided flights from Washington, DC, to Monterey, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the new Supersports and ride in a preproduction Torcal EV, which we wrote about last week.…
While we were there, we went for a ride in something quite old.
FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon yesterday, alleging that it has conducted a secret scheme to overcharge advertisers for seven years.…
"Since 2019, Amazon.
has secretly and systematically overcharged its approximately 1.
2 million advertising customers by manipulating the 'auctions' that it…
New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official
Let's be frank: Some of Google's recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions.…
The new September Drop does have some Gemini flavor, but there are non…
Your messaging threads are getting prettier and more useful, and those…
And even the Gemini expansion is not without utility.
CDC reported then deleted two measles deaths that were questioned by RFK Jr.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is excluding two measles deaths reported by Pennsylvania health officials last week from its latest update of national measles data.…
The move publicly challenges the accuracy of the state's death determi…
The New York Times reported Monday that the CDC's new director, Erica …
Schwartz—less than a month into the job—reportedly ordered CDC staff t…
Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world's most valuable companies, but if you're not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you've probably never heard of this man, who has largely remained out of the spotlight until now.
Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses
Tesla’s abrupt decision to kill its Solar Roof has left the third-party contractors who sold and installed the product absorbing the fallout — including some who told Electrek they sank hundreds of thousands of dollars into the program and now have little to show for it.…
Tesla stopped supplying the solar tiles in August, notifying its netwo…
CrowdStrike launches cyber frontier AI models, agentic security system
CrowdStrike today announced SafeMind, a cybersecurity-specific AI model-harness system that CEO George Kurtz described as the “first complete agentic system for cybersecurity” at the company’s Fal.…
Con conference in Las Vegas.
At the heart of SafeMind are two purpose-built cybersecurity models, t…
Both models have been trained on CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor telemetry…
John Ternus sends first memo as Apple CEO teasing a ‘huge launch next week’
New Apple CEO John Ternus sent out his first staff memo, thanking his predecessor Tim Cook, and quickly turning to what the company will do next, reports Bloomberg.…
"We have a huge launch next week that's going to be phenomenal.
Thanks for everything you've all done to make it possible," writes Ter…
Ternus also hints at "incredible products already in the works and the…
Apple is pushing for "expedited discovery" in its legal battle against OpenAI over concerns the company is actively destroying evidence, as reported earlier by Bloomberg.…
In a filing on Monday, Apple alleges OpenAI only just handed over a Ma…
" This is the latest development in Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI, wh…
The lawsuit revolves around three former Apple employees who recently …