A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID.

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For every locality on Earth, how far is the nearest hospital? Naively, that's 437 billion great-circle distances. S2 cell indexing reduces it to a single integer range-join: build the index once, and the answer for every place on Earth comes back in seconds. The same primitive also resolves which country, region, and locality each hospital belongs to, in a single pass over one index.

Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley.

“I’ve got one hand on the keyboard, one hand down below,” an artist who role-plays with their chatbot tells WIRED. But some asexual advocates aren’t thrilled about the association.

The County accused the tech giant of permitting billions of scam ads to increase revenue.

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Artificial intelligence is reshaping beauty standards by automating the 'clean girl' aesthetic, transforming what once seemed effortless into a data-driven trend. Algorithms now analyze and predict beauty preferences, creating a feedback loop that standardizes minimalist aesthetics across social pla

TikTok's powerful AI algorithms are quietly reshaping fashion choices, recommending outfits and trends before users consciously decide what to wear. This algorithmic control over style preferences raises questions about authenticity, consumer autonomy, and the invisible forces driving fashion cultur

TikTok's sophisticated AI algorithms are locked in an invisible battle with human trend forecasters to predict what goes viral next. This secret war is reshaping how content creators strategize and revealing surprising truths about algorithmic dominance versus human intuition.

Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?

இயற்கையில் நாம் காணும் அனைத்தும் ஏதோ ஒரு வகையில் அலைகளால் ஆனவை. கடலில் எழும் அலைகள் முதல், நம் காதுகளில் ஒலிக்கும் இசை, கணினியில் நாம் பார்க்கும் காணொளிகள் வரை அனைத்தும் அலைகளின் விளையாட்டுதான். இந்த அலைகளின் பின்னால் இருக்கும் கணித ரகசியத்தை அவிழ்த்தவர்தான் ஜோசப் ஃபோரியர் (Joseph Fourier). இந்த பெயரைக் கேட்டு பள்ளி அல்லது கல்லூரி கணிதவியல் பாடத்தில் பயந்து போனவர்கள் பலபேர் இருப்பார்கள்.…

Binary search is the page-flipping trick everyone learns in their first programming class: to find a word in a sorted list, look at the middle, decide whether your target is in the top or bottom half, and repeat. It has been considered close to optimal since the 1940s. — Read the rest

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The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it's better at creating more detailed images and rendering text, but it still struggles with languages other than English.

We live in a society where the algorithms know us better than we know ourselves. They watch what we click, how long we linger, which words make us pause, and what patterns emerge from our choices. In doing so, they build a portrait of us so detailed that it sometimes feels unnervingly intimate, predicting desires … Continue reading The Omniscient Algorithms →

The former Instagram executive is departing the ChatGPT-maker, and the company is sunsetting its “OpenAI for Science” application.

As a #2026Bride, the constant, aggressive content started to make me feel like I was losing sight of what mattered. And I'm far from alone.

The race to transition online security protocols to ones that can’t be cracked by a quantum computer is already on. The algorithms that are commonly used today to protect data online—RSA and elliptic curve cryptography—are uncrackable by supercomputers, but a large enough quantum computer would make quick work of them. There are algorithms secure enough to be out of reach for both classical…

Videos of fake relationship guru podcasters are reinforcing gender tropes and racking up millions of views, all the while driving sales to AI influencer schools.

Catturd — a right-wing pseudonymous account — routinely outperforms the _New York Times_ on X. The _Times_ has built a following of 53 million accounts, but its posts typically generate a few hundred likes or replies. Nate Silver, the statistician behind FiveThirtyEight and the Silver Bulletin newsletter, tracked X's top engagement accounts for 2026 and found them dominated by low-quality, highly…

In its early days, the AI initiative known as Project Maven had its fair share of skeptics at the Pentagon. Today, many of them are true believers.

Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries.

Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries. (Craig T Fruchtman / Getty Images)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ebMm8stexM "But when you frame it that way, you understand that social media isn't the problem: the extractive profit motive is the problem. And then, banning under-16s is like putting a plaster on a bullet wound. Sure, maybe it helps a bit, but you're still bleeding out. The real question is, how do you stop...

I learned algorithms from textbooks and papers, building mental models from pseudocode and hand-drawn sketches. The hardest part was never reading the algorithm: it was seeing what it was actually doing to the data structure in memory. This post is the tool I wish I had back then.

Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.

"Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people. The motivated muddling of categories so prevalent in writing and thinking about AI, beginning with the very name 'artificial intelligence', is intentional and serves the narrative that this software can and will...

The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.

If you’ve spent any time in my Section 230 myth-debunking guide, you know that most bad takes on the law come from people who haven’t read it. But lately I keep running into a different kind of bad take—one that often comes from people who have read the law, understand the basics passably well, and […]

As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the loss all over the world.

Attorney general Raúl Torrez is accusing the tech giant of failing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram.