While beating an AI at a board game may seem relatively trivial, it can help us identify failure modes of the AI, or ways in which we can improve their training to avoid having them develop these ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Perplexity AI has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that aims to go well beyond chatbots and into the territory of digital labour. Called “Perplexity Computer,” the system is designed ...

Ten years after a milestone victory, AI now dominates Go training. Players are figuring out what that means for the game.

Matthew McConaughey weighed in on what the future of Hollywood will look like as the industry embraces artificial intelligence, saying actors should prepare for the day that they’ll have to compete ...

Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is a tall order. The ...

Campaigners against UK datacentre development will coordinate protests this weekend to voice their opposition to “dirty datacentres”. The days of action have been organised by environmental charity ...

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...

A growing number of Olympic athletes competing for the U.S. in this month’s Winter Games are expressing discomfort with representing the country under President Trump’s administration, sparking ...

The indictment against journalist Don Lemon and eight others will likely be dismissed because it hinges on a charge that is viewed as so constitutionally flawed that the Justice Department's Civil ...

CISA ordered U.S. government agencies on Thursday to secure their systems against a critical Microsoft Configuration Manager vulnerability patched in October 2024 and now exploited in attacks.

North Korean hackers are deploying newly uncovered tools to move data between internet-connected and air-gapped systems, spread via removable drives, and conduct covert surveillance. The malicious ...