Category: 3. Tech

“We acknowledge the European Commission’s statement,” said Meta. “Personalized ads are vital for Europe’s economy.”

The investigation took place under the EU’s landmark Digital Markets Act, which is designed…

If you want to stand out at your next metal gig, don’t settle for a spot of color in a sea of black – go ultrablack instead.

Engineers at Cornell University have created the blackest fabric on record, finding it absorbs 99.87 percent of all…

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational hardware.

These “biocomputers” are still in…

“I usually don’t say this, but patch right freakin’ now,” one researcher wrote. “The React CVE listing (CVE-2025-55182) is a perfect 10.”

React versions 19.0.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, 19.2.0 contain the vulnerable…

A sprawling infrastructure that has been bilking unsuspecting people through fraudulent gambling websites for 14 years is likely a dual operation run by a nation-state-sponsored group that…

In the last book of Plato’s The Republic, the philosopher argues that poetry…

Pets just don’t live long enough. We spend time, emotion, energy and lots of money caring for them, all while knowing we’ll invariably outlive them.

It’s unsurprising then, that with the advent of cloning technologies a growing number of…

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map exactly once. All known methods for solving…

Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, millions of people have started using large language models to access knowledge. And it’s easy to understand their appeal: Ask a question, get a polished synthesis, and move on – it feels like…