Elon Musk's social media platform X will make its algorithm open source in seven days, the billionaire businessman said on Saturday, including the code that governs what posts are recommended to users ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

In the age of AI, business leaders must be fluent in technology and human values. Distinguish between decisions augmented by algorithms and those requiring human judgment. Ethical responsibilities of ...

In a conversation with a friend from Pakistan, I lamented that country’s recent decision to give the head of its army expanded powers, including lifetime immunity from legal prosecution. My friend ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

Kruskal’s algorithm finds a Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) by building it edge by edge, always choosing the cheapest edge that doesn’t create a cycle. Sorting all edges in the graph from smallest weight ...

New Yorkers got a little more visibility this week into when apps like Uber and DoorDash use algorithms to set prices. The state's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act took effect on Monday. Under the ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk this week on a Utah college campus marks the latest example of violence tearing through American politics across centuries and the ideological ...