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“DHS in particular is trying to use Twitter as a form of not just recruitment but also promotion,” says Joan Donovan, assistant professor at Boston University and the coauthor of Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online...

Tucked away in a laboratory at the University of Exeter in the UK, Rebecca Koll is setting conifer trees...

An image from the study illustrating how plastic bottles reach Latin American Pacific coasts. Illustration: Garcés-Ordóñez et al. (2025) (CC BY 4.0)The scientists found that, like other marine debris, the bottles and caps they retrieved were sometimes colonized by immobile...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a "chain of thought" process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical...

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editorJoshua NevettPolitical reporterEPAStaff at the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding.Workers at the Alan Turing Institute raised...

OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But for some users, last Thursday’s release felt more like a wrenching downgrade, with the new ChatGPT presenting a diluted personality and...

Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to new Online Safety Act rules which it says could threaten the human rights and safety of its volunteer editors.The Wikimedia Foundation - the non-profit which supports the online encyclopaedia - wanted a...

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Two semiconductors—silicon carbide and gallium nitride—are the rivals in a (quite literally) heated competition to make circuits capable of performing at the highest temperatures....

A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than that of legitimate research.Over the last...

The Wall Street Journal has found "dozens of instances in recent months in which ChatGPT made delusional, false and otherworldly claims to users who appeared to believe them."For example, "You're not crazy. You're cosmic royalty in human skin..."In...