In 2024, as Anthropic suggested at the time, the feature wasn’t really ready for productive use — it was genuinely crazy to ...

A new scam involving fake CAPTCHA boxes is tricking people into downloading malware that can steal sensitive information.

In February 2023, a little more than a year after the launch of ChatGPT, Vanderbilt University sent an email to its student ...

OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated ...

Clean, precise prose is now a liability, and non-native English speakers and autistic writers are often paying the price.

A psychiatrist at Stanford, Kenneth Colby, is trying to program a computer to do therapy; he calls it “the mad doctor.” Conditioning by an electric shock was recently done in England to cure an ...

The open-source software underlying critical infrastructure — from financial systems to public utilities to emergency services and electronic health records — is vulnerable to malicious cyberattacks.

The Computer Guy of Chicago strikes when you least expect. Sitting in a coffeehouse. Reading your phone on the train. Working out. Waiting for food. Walking down the street. When the Computer Guy ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont is helping people keep up with changing technology through a three-day training program. Organizers said the course helps people build digital skills ...

With Apple’s 50th anniversary fast approaching, the Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history. Here are the details. The ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...