The Telegram channel and website Deep State uses public data and insider intelligence to power its live tracker of Ukraine’s ever-shifting front line.

The Chinese studio granted early access on the condition that topics like “feminist propaganda” and “Covid-19” go unmentioned. What followed is the Streisand effect in full force.

“I really fucking hate generative AI,” says Procreate CEO James Cuda, who believes the technology is “ripping the humanity out of things.”

The updated vaccines target the currently circulating KP.2 variant.

Researchers are testing the use of mRNA to get damaged livers to repair themselves, in a move that could one day lessen the need for organ transplants.

EV drivers in the US need to get out of that gas station car mindset.

BattlegroundAI promises to make life easier for overstretched and underfunded progressive campaigns.

With the possible exception of gold, no other metal has caused as much destruction as copper. In the coming years, we’ll need more of it than ever.

The serial software entrepreneur's passing comes only weeks after he was cleared of fraud by a jury in the US.

While the exact cause of the deadly sinking of the Bayesian superyacht remains unknown, dangerous waterspouts were spotted in the area. Scientists say they may become far more common.

Protesters took to Citi Field Wednesday to raise awareness of the facial recognition systems that have become common at major league sporting venues.

The Nintendo Museum, which opens in Kyoto in October, lets visitors play decades-old games using new controllers, smartphone cameras, and image recognition tech.

Back in 2017, Equifax announced that hackers stole half of the US population’s Social Security numbers in what, we said, “will likely end up being one of the worst data breaches to ever affect the country.” Perhaps — until this year, when about 2.9 billion rows of data were collected through a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a company that resells collected personal data for background checks. This data included names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information. As usual, when this sort of thing hits the news, our immediate reaction is to wonder what we can do to prevent ourselves from falling prey to identity theft, unauthorized withdrawals, false credit applications, and other nasty consequences. And, also, as...

Letting programs learn through “open-ended” experimentation may unlock remarkable new capabilities, as well as new risks.

The AI ethics nonprofit Humane Intelligence and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology are launching a series of contests to get more people probing for problems in generative AI systems.

The latest Covid-19 surge reportedly has officials considering approval of the new strain-matched vaccine as soon as this week.

Amazon has updated its instructions for how customers should more securely implement AWS's traffic-routing service known as Application Load Balancer, but it's not clear everyone will get the memo.

Industries want to harvest naturally occurring hydrogen as soon as possible, but scientists warn of unforeseen consequences.

In rural India, stormy weather, a lack of knowledge, and scant protections are combining to kill thousands every year, with climate change likely to raise the threat as lightning becomes more common.

The US Defense Department’s grand strategy for protecting Taiwan from a massive Chinese military offensive involves flooding the zone with thousands of drones.

One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems poised to eventually change—changing everything.

Plus: US regulators fine T-Mobile $60 million for mishap with sensitive data, New Zealand approves Kim Dotcom’s US extradition, and San Francisco takes on deepfake porn.