The most frightening thing about rogue AI agents may be how faithfully they mirror the powerful humans who created them.

After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to…

Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators

More than 150 wallets on Polymarket International may have traded on inside U.S. military information, attracting copycat ​bets and raising concerns that the market could broadcast signals exploitable...

What new analysis of more than 300 bear encounters shows about the notion of dogs as early bear alarms or deterrents.

What Comes after the neoliberal order.

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

Fifa’s gargantuan revenue influx from the tournament, with little left over for locals, will beget more exploitation

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The tournament’s mascot came to herald the ubiquitous, commercial aims of a growing international spectacle

Ascribing human traits to chatbots empowers techlords. ‘Our slavery will be one we have consented to, enthusiastically.’  The trouble with impressive new technologies is that they have the uncanny abi...

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As specialized forestry staff at the USFS vanish and pinecone cowboys—the highly skilled contractors sent out in the field to collect cones—face a collapsing industry, entire ecosystems are…

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Restrictive purchase agreements leave troops unable to fix the expensive ships, fighter jets, and ground vehicles they depend on.

Massive, unprecedented payouts from the New York Federal Reserve could signal that big banks are seriously short on cash.

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The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.

At New Zealand's Kawaiicon cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.

At New Zealand's Kawaiicon cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.

Everyone agrees antics around the spending-bill deadline are nothing but callous political stunts — so why do we agree to be governed like this at all?

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Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

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