Opinion

Jalebis and democracy

Electoral politics is a zero-sum game, and not such a sweet deal after all  When people talk politics to me and ask whether I’m pro-govt or anti-govt, pro- opposition or anti-opposition, I ask them ...
The pro-Russia hacktivist group CyberVolk launched a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) called VolkLocker that suffered from ...
Cell-sized robots can sense temperature, make decisions, and move autonomously using nanowatts of power—no external control ...
Some efforts to slash energy costs focus on using renewable sources, or on slimming down the AI models themselves. But ...
At trade association TechUK’s ninth annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials, industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, ...
A new malware implant called EtherRAT, deployed in a recent React2Shell attack, runs five separate Linux persistence ...
Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was ...
A simple, relatable explainer of hard disk drives, using gramophones and floppy disks to show how HDDs store data, why they ...
A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.
Recent Notepad++ releases address a vulnerability that has allowed threat actors to hijack the free source code editor’s ...
As AI platforms go mainstream, power bills from their usage are exploding, so researchers are racing to build hardware that would use less energy.
The online information landscape, driven in large part by social media, rewards engagement and is curated by classification ...