OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.

Students faced prison terms and thousands of dollars in restitution over campus protest against Israel’s war on Gaza

On the surface, our results seem to support the perspective that social media use is not meaningfully related to users’ well-being. But we think that’s the wrong conclusion.

Scholars have long proposed third-party middleware as an alternative to centralized algorithmic feeds: feeds built and distributed by independent feed creators. This vision saw no large-scale instanti...

Today on AirTalk: Social media trial, what makes social media safe, Big Bear eagle Jackie dies, California ballot counting and friendslop gaming.

Sunday Tagliasacchi and Elisabeth Snyder detail an initial court victory for the Coalition for Independent Technology Research in CITR v. Rubio.

The first UN Global Dialogue recognized the problem. The next step is building an architecture capable of addressing it, write Jamila Venturini & Marina Meira.

83% of countries with reliable reporting show plunging suicide rates by teenage boys as social media proliferated. Does social media actually prevent suicide?

the literal heights people must go to now to get attention

The California Science and Health Research Bond Act (SB 895) will create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research to ensure that life-saving and economically vital scientific, medical...

For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

Ads everywhere. Usage limits. Frustrating guardrails. Less model choice. Users of the Character.AI chatbot app are revolting after a series of changes they say have made the app worse.

"If someone said they were disappointing, that would feel sensible to me"

In this report, CDT Research draws on prior work in human-computer interaction and deceptive design disciplines to investigate how established dark patterns documented in other digital technology cont...

A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.

Social media platforms didn’t intend to polarize America. They intended to maximize engagement, and polarization was the byproduct.

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

The crowdsourced moderation project faces a choice between scale and legitimacy

BOSTON, May 13, 2026 — TODAY, Boston City Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution condemning dangerous and misguided censorship and age verification legislation, including the controversial pr...

Three firms will pay nearly $1 million for selling “Active Listening” technology that they claimed tapped people’s phones for advertising. The FTC alleges the “tech” was just pricey email lists.

As statehouses ramp up for 2026, we’re seeing a familiar and concerning trend of lawmakers rushing to regulate the internet based on shockingly shaky science. From the California State Assembly to

After five teen girls were targeted by AI-generated child sexual abuse material, Radnor Township High School in Pennsylvania has become a case study in how schools and police around the country grappl...

Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

Detransition narratives were pushed by anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Genspect at a recent "Detrans Awareness Day" lobbying event in Washington, D.C.