Federal officials announced the results of a months’ long infiltration campaign against a major international ransomware group called Hive on Thursday. The group’s numerous digital extortion schemes netted members over $100 million in payments. Since June 2021, Hive has subjected ...

In the grand and lengthy list of distasteful ideas, paywalling the ability to engage in “fun and interactive” conversations with AI Hitler might not rise to the very top. But it’s arguably up there. And yet countless people have already given ...

Google is no stranger to weathering antitrust complaints that often come with billions of dollars’ in EU fines. But its latest stateside legal challenge may prove harder to evade than any previous case. On Tuesday, the Justice Department, alongside 8 ...

The information dissemination and transparency collective called Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) released a 19GB data trove over the weekend culled by hackers from apps utilized by law enforcement agencies for conducting raids and arrests on houseless populations. The mass ...

Despite only becoming publicly available late last year, ChatGPT is already being utilized by some of the most powerful people in the world for their everyday work. Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is an impressively advanced chatbot capable of generating text ...

Content moderation is a notoriously nasty job, and the burgeoning labor outsourcing industry surrounding it routinely faces heated scrutiny for the ethics of its approach to subjecting human workers to the internet’s darkest corners. On Wednesday, Time published a new ...

Calibri has been Microsoft’s default typeface since 2007, when it assumed the title previously held by Times New Roman. After 15 years, however, Calibri’s conquest of the modern typeface world is finally getting a major ally in the US government. ...

Seattle’s school district has announced an unprecedented lawsuit against Meta, Google, TikTok, ByteDance, and Snap, arguing that their social media platforms both facilitated and profited off of American adolescents’ and teens’ mental health crises for years. While families across the ...

The cost of renewable energy has plummeted over the past decade. The price of solar panels has decreased by roughly 90 percent over the past decade or so and the cost of wind power decreased by over half over that ...

Less than 3 percent of Earth is covered in freshwater. And while that percentage has remained pretty constant, population growth has not. Only 1 percent of freshwater is accessible to the 7.7 billion people and counting.  As concerns over water ...