If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

A Python-based malware family known as VVS stealer has been observed using advanced obfuscation and stealth techniques to target Discord users and extract sensitive ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Python-based information stealer called VVS Stealer (also styled as VVS $tealer) that's capable of ...

Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll ...

State and federal law enforcement agencies warned earlier this year that young people were at risk of radicalization on the chat platform Discord, according to government documents obtained by NBC ...

Tesla is developing a humanoid robot called Optimus. CEO Elon Musk said about 80% of Tesla's future value could come from Optimus. Musk teased Optimus V3 on X, calling it "sublime." For Elon Musk, the ...

When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife Linda became alarmed. “But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue, as ...

Contrary to what many of my friends believe, good academics are always working—at least in the sense that when we’re stuck on a problem, which is most of the time, it’s impossible to leave it behind.

A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, ...

The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites. The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced ...