Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was ...
Opinion

Jalebis and democracy

Electoral politics is a zero-sum game, and not such a sweet deal after all  When people talk politics to me and ask whether I’m pro-govt or anti-govt, pro- opposition or anti-opposition, I ask them ...
A new malware implant called EtherRAT, deployed in a recent React2Shell attack, runs five separate Linux persistence ...
Some efforts to slash energy costs focus on using renewable sources, or on slimming down the AI models themselves. But ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified the earliest supernova on record, according to a statement released ...
Pure-plays like IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and D-Wave Quantum remain the most popular opportunities in quantum computing at the ...
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Gemini were originally designed to work with text only. Today, they have ...
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...
A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.
Picus Security explains why relying on LLM-generated attack scripts is risky and how an agentic approach maps real threat ...
As AI platforms go mainstream, power bills from their usage are exploding, so researchers are racing to build hardware that would use less energy.
Umberto Eco recalled that the press created a rational and reflective book culture, while the Internet has imposed a ...