This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

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If a cybercriminal wants access to a high-profile Instagram account, it turns out all they have to do is ask. “Meta gave zero updates about the AI bot hacking incident until it got to the press,” Wong ...

A simple writing test could detect cognitive impairment in older individuals before more serious symptoms occur, scientists have discovered. Writing is a complex, brain-heavy workout that requires the ...

BulkQuant introduces a simplified stock quant trading tool designed to help beginners explore AI stock trading bots without coding, complex setup, or advanced strategy configuration. BulkQuant today ...

Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance ...

What just happened? The internet has passed a very unwelcome milestone: for the first time in history, bots have surpassed human traffic online. The announcement came from Cloudflare CEO and ...

Somewhere in the world, a man is sat behind a computer screen telling a group of strangers his most shameful secret. The story is long, but the details are thin. At ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

When we hear about Google’s Gemini AI engine these days, it’s almost always the result of some wildly ambitious and futuristic-sounding advancement. That’s all well and good, but for most of us, it ...

A simple Reddit post asking whether electric vehicles really lower ownership costs set off a flood of back-of-the-envelope calculations, and many of the replies came down strongly on the side of yes.