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Openvibe's clever app that integrates multiple open social networks, including Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr, and Threads, just got a boost toward its future

Liang Wenfeng, who founded the firm just two years ago, says his aim is ‘not to lose money, nor to make huge profits’

DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App Store.

"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

A series of 5 collective imagination gatherings to engage residents in imagining their place as a living person, to help revitalise Kiwaatule from a dense urban area to a green corridor.

Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.

If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.

The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.

Wee little union sign I painted in 2022, maybe? This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do we survive being online? Erika and I bought a radio. For...

Modeled after the human vocal tract, MIT CSAIL’s AI system can generate and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. It “sketches up” human-like vocal impressions without training, or ever hearing a human mimic that particular sound.

Inaccurate notices branded with broadcaster’s logo sent to iPhone users but tech firm works on improvements

There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing.

After an average of 6,000 words, Stanford and Google researchers can spin up a generative agent that will act a lot like you do.

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

US tech group is rolling out a range of artificial intelligence tools to drive engagement

Jorge Rivera-Herrans’s musical sensation Epic is just one of a series of works making a splash on the online platform

Parents believe San Francisco police lack ability to conduct thorough investigation into multifaceted case

For centuries, scientists have wrestled with the question of why we dream. One theory suggests it's connected to neuroplasticity—and vision.

Why won’t the bot say my name?

Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?

New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating power in the hands of the most powerful tech companies.

An open-source, community-generated digital library that aims to document, preserve and illuminate the work of feminist designers around the globe.

Reposting a public letter as part of the action around the recent OpenAI Sora leak.

There is a chasm in outlook between the global climate policy-making elite with their focus on distant goals, market solutions and non-disruptive change, and activists and key researchers who see the world hurtling towards climate breakdown and social collapse.

How the pandemic and climate migration have influenced this third outing of a formerly sterile architectural puzzle game

From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.

From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.