At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered an end to the monthslong National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. to tackle crime, declaring that the use of troops was "unlawful." It's the latest legal ...

Microsoft said today that the Aisuru botnet hit its Azure network with a 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, launched from over 500,000 IP addresses. The attack used extremely high-rate UDP ...

A new kind of processor that uses microwaves can be used in future AI systems or in wireless communications, a new study shows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Keeping your computer secure is more important than ever. Cyberattacks target computers, accounts and sensitive data daily. Traditional passwords have long been the cornerstone of security, but they ...

Abstract: Different kinds of compensation topologies in wireless power transfer (WPT) systems usually can only achieve constant voltage (CV) or constant current (CC) output at the same time when the ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

Google is now letting developers preview the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model behind Project Mariner and agentic features in AI Mode. This “specialized model” can interact with graphical user interfaces, ...

Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into "agents" that can actually take more actions on behalf of ...

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Starting today, customers with U.S.-based environments can add computer use to their agents directly as a tool - meaning agents can work directly with websites and applications. Computer use, now in ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used ...