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A WIRED analysis of more than 100 restricted channels shows these communities remain active, and content shared within them often spreads to channels accessible to the public.

Meta and YouTube are looking to Demi Lovato, Tom Brady and other A-listers to mainstream the technology — flawed guardrails and all.

Altman explains why he decided to return to OpenAI and what comes next for the company.

Accused of violating kids' privacy, Facebook owner challenges FTC authority.

The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.

Released earlier this month, OpenAI’s GPTs let anyone create custom chatbots. But some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed.

The Titan Image Generator includes automatic invisible watermarking.

Newly discovered materials can be used to make better solar cells, batteries, computer chips, and more.

Meta's Facebook lost the latest round of a court battle over privacy with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday after a federal judge ruled the regulator can seek to reduce the amount of money the social media company makes from users under 18.

Somehow it took an antitrust trial to find out.

Web storefront maker fixed the flaw, but not before blasting infoseccer

For most games, a license is either free or the cost of a medium-nice dinner.

Heat pumps are ubiquitous in the form of air conditioners. Scientists just invented one that avoids harmful refrigerant gases

Artificial intelligence employed by the Pentagon has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones, helped Ukraine fight Russia, predicts when Air Force jets need maintenance and tracks rivals’ satellites in space.

Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.

Three researchers have found a long-sought way to pull information from large databases secretly, moving us closer to fully private internet searches.

A soft robot replica solves a mystery about the evolution of movement.

The Telescope Array in Utah's West Desert picked up a rare particle with 244 EeV energy.

I hope Windows 12 brings back point releases.

Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem involving imperfect information.

Appin was a leading Indian cyberespionage firm that few people even knew existed. A Reuters investigation found that the company grew from an educational startup to a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from business titans, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe. Appin alumni went on to form...

The charge was similar to practices uncovered after the collapse of the second largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, last year.

Business arrangements and opaque contracts have broken the pitch of the smart home. Better regulation can fix this problem.

There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will start to change that.

X's complaint alleged that Media Matters "manipulated" the platform's algorithm to generate inorganic ad placements to form a "blatant smear campaign," but the complaint seemingly admitted that no statements that Media Matters published were false. Media Matters will likely argue that advertisers could interpret its reporting...