Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment ...

Researchers hijacked Claude, Gemini, and Copilot AI agents via prompt injection to steal API keys and tokens. All three ...

Google's March core update finished rolling out. A Search Console bug inflated impressions for nearly a year. Pichai warns AI ...

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...

Multiple VPN providers are reporting that Android 16 has a months-old bug that can silently break VPN connections without warning. The issue appears to affect multiple VPNs like Proton, Mullvad, ...

When it comes to coding, peer feedback is crucial for catching bugs early, maintaining consistency across a codebase, and improving overall software quality. The rise of “vibe coding” — using AI tools ...

When Ben Rosenfeld started working as a residential assistant at a Stanford University dorm, he encountered 77 freshmen possessed by an “all-consuming” force. His new gig coincided with the release of ...

A butterfly flaps its wings and weeks later a tornado touches down halfway around the world. Mathematician Edward Lorenz used the butterfly effect to explain chaos theory in the 1960s. Now, decades ...

Publisher's note: This series was paid for by National Minority Quality Forum. The views expressed are the authors' own. The Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) drug price negotiation provisions are ...

Windows 11 shutdown issues caught many users off guard after a routine January 2026 security update, triggering widespread PC troubleshooting across affected systems. Instead of powering off, impacted ...