Russia Seeds New Surveillance Tech to Squash Ukraine War Dissent
As the war in Ukraine unfolded last year, Russia’s best digital spies turned to new tools to fight an enemy on another front: those inside...
How Tom Brady’s Crypto Ambitions Collided With Reality
As the FTX cryptocurrency exchange imploded last fall, Tom Brady, the seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback, made an urgent phone call. He dialed Sina Nader, FTX’s...
Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri
casey newton You know, pretty soon, I’ll be posting threats, which is what I’m calling Thread posts. And we’ll see if people like those, too....
As Businesses Clamor for Workplace A.I., Tech Companies Rush to Provide It
Earlier this year, Mark Austin, the vice president of data science at AT&T, noticed that some of the company’s developers had started using the ChatGPT...
To Build A.I. Technology, Start-Ups Turn to Bigger Rivals for Help
The tech industry loves its garage start-up stories. From Hewlett-Packard to Google, the tales of bootstrapped companies that have turned into giants has inspired generations...
Facial Recognition Spreads as Tool to Fight Shoplifting
Simon Mackenzie, a security officer at the discount retailer QD Stores outside London, was short of breath. He had just chased after three shoplifters who...
Lewis Branscomb, Champion of Science Across Fields, Dies at 96
As the Cold War was waning, the physicist Lewis Branscomb feared that America’s economic and scientific superiority was in jeopardy. Declining scientific literacy and critical...
Federal Judge Limits Biden Officials’ Contacts With Social Media Sites
A federal judge in Louisiana on Tuesday restricted the Biden administration from communicating with social media platforms about broad swaths of content online, a ruling...
Black Artists Say A.I. Shows Bias, With Algorithms Erasing Their History
The artist Stephanie Dinkins has long been a pioneer in combining art and technology in her Brooklyn-based practice. In May she was awarded $100,000 by...
Edward Fredkin, 88, Who Saw the Universe as One Big Computer, Dies
Edward Fredkin, who despite never having graduated from college became an influential professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a pioneer in...
¿Musk y Zuckerberg pelearán en una jaula? Tal vez no sea broma
En general, los amigos y asesores de Zuckerberg han apoyado la pelea, dijeron dos personas cercanas a él, aunque otros dijeron que una pelea sería...
Samsung’s AI Moment Is Here, but Is It Ready?
The introduction of ChatGPT has lit a fire under the shares of companies that produce microchips, the brains of artificial intelligence. Bets on the potential...
New Uncensored Chatbots Ignite a Free-Speech Fracas
A.I. chatbots have lied about notable figures, pushed partisan messages, spewed misinformation or even advised users on how to commit suicide. To mitigate the tools’...
Meta Unveils ‘Threads’ App to Take on Twitter
Mark Zuckerberg has long wanted to dislodge Twitter and provide the central place for public conversation online. Yet Twitter has remained stubbornly irreplaceable. That hasn’t...