The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. Thirteen years ago, no ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

View post: Cause of Death for 'Lil Jon's Son TikTok users in the U.S. reported feed and content issues over the weekend. Issues followed the creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity, as ...

Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

All spark plugs may look the same to the untrained eye. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. For starters, spark plugs come in many types that are mainly differentiated by the ...

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the ...

The Signalgate scandal that enveloped US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in March appears to be symptomatic of a wider lax attitude towards the use of non-approved messaging apps by officials and ...

New research shows that while true Instagram addiction is rare, the widespread habit of labeling everyday scrolling as an “addiction” can sap users’ confidence, fuel self-blame, and steer them away ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Artificial intelligence has notorious problems with accuracy — so maybe it’s not surprising that using it as a coding assistant creates more security problems, too. As a security firm called Apiiro ...

The issue is this week’s Asked & Answered. Nearly a month after a cyberattack hit Georgia’s SNAP benefits call center, the hotline system remains down, and some folks still can’t access their SNAP ...

As the race to build ever-more powerful artificial intelligence slows to a crawl, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting desperate. But in the quest to build the best AI systems, not even that’s enough.