VPNs won't stop fraudsters from stealing your bank account—and in some cases, they can make it more difficult to access your money. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy.

UPDATE: Jun. 4, 2026, 3:38 p.m. EDT — This article has been updated with a statement from Reddit. In recent years, brands and spammers alike have been using Reddit to manipulate AI chatbots by ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...

PROTECTING THE U.S. ECONOMY AND NATIONAL INTERESTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation imposing a temporary import duty to address fundamental international payments problems and ...

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the ...

Abstract: The Subset Sum problem is a classical NP-complete problem with applications in resource allocation, cryptography, and combinatorial optimization. Conventional backtracking methods search the ...

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. When I called him to talk more about AI and water, Masley emphasized that he’s ...

As more people turn to AI chatbots for emotional support and even as their therapists, a new and urgent concern is emerging at the intersection of AI and mental health: "AI psychosis" or "ChatGPT ...

Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton is walking back his clear jab at New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson, his former colleague. Payton was asked about Wilson's clap back on X from Tuesday, in ...