Inside SearchGuard: How Google detects bots and what the SerpAPI lawsuit reveals

We fully decrypted SearchGuard, the anti-bot system protecting Google Search. Here's exactly how Google tells humans and bots ...
The New Yorker

A Year of Listening Beyond the Algorithm

My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent a significant ...
Searchenginejournal.com

YouTube Shorts Algorithm May Now Favor Fresh Over Evergreen

Retention analysts say Shorts older than 28-30 days are being deprioritized in recommendations. The reported shift affects channels ranging from 100 million to one billion monthly views. Creators warn ...
Mediaite

You’re Not Being Manipulated by Algorithms. You’re Obeying Them

Last week, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi’s remarkably swift media rehabilitation, and the response surprised me. That column argued that modern media rewards spectacle over substance, but it also hinted ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Alphabet Raised at Loop as ‘Waves of AI Enthusiasm’ Temper Fears

Alphabet Inc. was upgraded to buy from hold at Loop Capital, the latest example of how Wall Street is turning even more positive on the Google parent. A wall of worry has been “obliterated under waves ...
Morningstar

MicroCloud Hologram Inc. Improves Grover Algorithm to Achieve Dynamic Multi-Mode Search, Breakthrough in Quantum Circuit Simplification and FPGA Reconstruction

SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroCloud Hologram Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLO), ("HOLO" or the "Company"), a technology service provider, proposed an improved quantum Grover algorithm for a ...
TechCrunch

Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
The White House

SAVING TIKTOK WHILE PROTECTING NATIONAL SECURITY

Section 1. Background. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the “Act”) (Public Law 118-50, Div. H) regulates “foreign adversary controlled applications,” ...
KVOA 4

Homicide on Tucson's cycling loop; police search for suspect

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Tucson police have released details about a deadly incident that occurred last night near 1st Avenue and Wetmore Road. The confrontation took place along the Diamond Street ...
Harvard Medical School

The algorithm thinks you’re rich. Prepare to pay more for that flight.

In an interview with Harvard Law Today, Noah Giansiracusa explains how companies deploy what some call "dynamic" or “surveillance pricing,” using individual customers' data as a primary algorithmic ...