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Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.

Artificial intelligence employed by the Pentagon has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones, helped Ukraine fight Russia, predicts when Air Force jets need maintenance and tracks rivals’ satellites in space.

A soft robot replica solves a mystery about the evolution of movement.

The Telescope Array in Utah's West Desert picked up a rare particle with 244 EeV energy.

I hope Windows 12 brings back point releases.

Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem involving imperfect information.

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Appin was a leading Indian cyberespionage firm that few people even knew existed. A Reuters investigation found that the company grew from an educational startup to a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from business titans, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe. Appin alumni went on to form...

The Orion capsule's heat shield suffered some unexpected damage at the conclusion of the Artemis 1 mission.

Sam Altman confronted a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed for months about who should fill board vacancies....

The charge was similar to practices uncovered after the collapse of the second largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, last year.

Business arrangements and opaque contracts have broken the pitch of the smart home. Better regulation can fix this problem.

X's complaint alleged that Media Matters "manipulated" the platform's algorithm to generate inorganic ad placements to form a "blatant smear campaign," but the complaint seemingly admitted that no statements that Media Matters published were false. Media Matters will likely argue that advertisers could interpret its reporting...

There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will start to change that.

Google appears to be intentionally slowing down YouTube on Mozilla Firefox, as a new video clearly demonstrates.

A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.

Meta has announced that it will offer a monthly subscription for users who wish to use Facebook and Instagram without ads in order to comply with new regulations in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland. Users can continue to use these services for free with the existing ad-supported model.

Vogt thanked the company "for a great ride," a month after Cruise vehicles were suspended over safety concerns.

Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a "new advanced AI research team," the software conglomerate's chief Satya Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and many of their former OpenAI colleagues will join Microsoft, Satya Nadella said.

In the aftermath of IBM, Disney and Apple pausing spending on X, formerly known as Twitter, top advertising executives made a personal appeal to CEO Linda Yaccarino.

Several investors, tech leaders, and government officials have condemned Elon’s comments on Jews.

Cars deemed unfixable in North America are resurrected in Eastern Europe.

Seriously, avoid Nothing Chats and check your Apple ID.