Google will ask people to wave at their computer to confirm they are real. The test is the latest in an ongoing battle between website owners and automated bots that try and access websites. Many ...

Few things are as infuriating as a sluggish computer. That's been common knowledge since the early 1980s, when the principle of the Doherty Threshold was coined. In a study published in the IBM ...

Google announced Wednesday that computer use — the ability for an AI agent to see a screen, click, type, and navigate software without a human at the keyboard — is now a built-in tool inside Gemini ...

“It is very sweet to have the ability to look at my wife’s eyes when she hears my voice and conjures up a sweet memory,” Casey Harrell said Researchers at UC Davis have created an advanced ...

At Aftermath, Chris Person (who else?) explains how to hack together a bootleg Steam Machine using a cheap castoff cryptomining GPU. It’s a high-effort, low-cost build made possible by 3D printing, ...

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

Did you know that you can now use Windows Update to reinstall your current Windows 11 version without losing data? Yes, this new feature lets you reinstall your current Windows 11 version using ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Industry leaders had worried that innovations in chip miniaturization were no longer possible. By Don Clark Reporting from San Francisco For decades, the tech industry has relied on the ability of ...

Memory costs have exploded in 2026, leading Apple and other computing giants to jack up laptop prices. Against that backdrop, here’s how to save on a new PC this year. From the laptops on your desk to ...

Goats are comedy gold. They headbutt confused cats! They faint! They make hilarious noises! Really hilarious noises! They do unspeakable things to the sheriff! And sometimes they’re complete and utter ...

Two months ago, I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Amsterdam, talking to a chatbot about killing people. “Claude, how do you feel about the U.S. military using you to select targets?” I asked Anthropic ...