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Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.

Claude isn't the most feature-rich AI chatbot, but it performs most tasks reasonably well and benefits from a well-designed ...

I've been writing and editing stories for almost two decades that help people use technology and productivity techniques to ...

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Keeping your job a secret can be an advantage on The Traitors, as series two winner Harry Clark and three other former players tell Digital Spy. But they have warnings about telling lies too. Harriet ...

Roblox Corporation, the company behind the popular online game platform Roblox, announced today that age verification will now be required for any users wishing to use in-game chat in all regions ...

Google's at it again, once more insisting that AI is something people need or want more of in their lives. The latest move comes from YouTube Gaming, which announced an open beta for a project called ...

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...

OpenAI is facing increasing scrutiny over how it handles ChatGPT data after users die, only selectively sharing data in lawsuits over ChatGPT-linked suicides. Last week, OpenAI was accused of hiding ...

World, the biometric ID verification project co-founded by Sam Altman, released the newest version of its app today, debuting several new features, including an encrypted chat integration and an ...

Microsoft warned users that Windows 11 updates released since August may cause the password sign-in option to disappear from the lock screen options, even though the button remains functional. On ...