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 ...
At trade association TechUK’s ninth annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials, industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, ...
A new malware implant called EtherRAT, deployed in a recent React2Shell attack, runs five separate Linux persistence ...
Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was ...
Some efforts to slash energy costs focus on using renewable sources, or on slimming down the AI models themselves. But ...
By David Brooks and Thomas L. Friedman Produced by Derek Arthur We’re living in a strange moment. According to the columnist ...
Pure-plays like IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and D-Wave Quantum remain the most popular opportunities in quantum computing at the ...
The online information landscape, driven in large part by social media, rewards engagement and is curated by classification ...
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Gemini were originally designed to work with text only. Today, they have ...
DNA is known to keep its form for centuries, and the researchers found that their tape could store data for more than 345 years at room temperature, or about 20,000 years at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 ...
A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.
As AI platforms go mainstream, power bills from their usage are exploding, so researchers are racing to build hardware that would use less energy.