Companies and governments worldwide scrambled to secure systems running the PHP programming language on Thursday after the disclosure of critical vulnerabilities triggered a surge in attempted cyberattacks. Cloud services providers reported millions
A new study published in Science suggests that interactions with overly approving artificial-intelligence chatbots can subtly encourage uncivil behavior in users. Researchers found that participants who received flattering feedback from AI tools
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Wikipedia has officially banned the use of AI-generated text in its articles, marking a significant policy shift in response to the growing role of artificial intelligence in media and content creation. The
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A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s effort to classify Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” granting the AI company an injunction against orders that would have forced federal agencies
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by Nil Milind Sharma’s The Quantamental Revolution arrives with the unmistakable confidence of a manifesto, a text that seeks not merely to describe a transformation in finance but to accelerate it. From
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China has escalated its dispute with the United States over artificial intelligence by urging scientists and tech researchers to boycott one of the world’s leading AI conferences after its organizers barred submissions
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A new paper in Nature highlights a modest scientific finding but a momentous shift in how research itself is being done. Researchers at the Tokyo-based company Sakana AI used an artificial-intelligence system
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China has successfully tested a groundbreaking satellite refueling system in low Earth orbit, demonstrating capabilities that could transform space operations and commercial satellite servicing. The Hukeda-2, also known as Yuxing-3 06, carried
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The formation of our solar system’s rocky planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—may have been far more complex than previously thought. For decades, scientists assumed that these planets coalesced from a single disc
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After two decades of painstaking work, a team of scientists has uncovered the ultimate limitation of mouse cloning: even with ideal conditions, a single animal’s lineage cannot be perpetuated indefinitely. The results,
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Researchers have stunned the synthetic biology community by resurrecting “dead” bacterial cells through the transplantation of complete genomes from other species. Reported this month on the preprint server bioRxiv, the technique could
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When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev could not access the few fossils that might have contained traces of ancient DNA. But in 2000, inspiration struck
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Microsoft has announced a major overhaul of its human-resources organization, signaling a bold shift in how the tech giant manages its workforce of more than 220,000 employees. Amy Coleman, who assumed the
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The White House released a major policy report yesterday outlining a sweeping set of legislative recommendations designed to position the United States at the forefront of artificial intelligence while safeguarding citizens’ rights
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Chinese scientists have successfully tested a solid rocket engine at a simulated depth of 200 metres, far beyond the typical operating depths of submarine-launched ballistic missiles, raising the prospect of deeper and
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A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Tuesday found that Meta Platforms violated state law by misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp while enabling child sexual exploitation.
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