(THE CONVERSATION) Reducing the visibility of polarizing content in social media feeds can measurably lower partisan animosity. To come up with this finding, my colleagues and I developed a method ...

This new law, already subject to lawsuits, lets shoppers know when companies are quietly raising online prices for certain ...

Feeds that amplify hysterical content are accelerating extremism and a grievance society that endangers us all.

Researchers are warning AI browser users about a new exploit called HashJack that can infect devices and steal data.

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Who is really winning here? In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s very gruesome and very public assassination on September 10, the debate over his legacy has played out in real time and online. The responses ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

It has now been ten days since the Google June 2025 core update began rolling out. It will probably take another ten or so days to finish rolling out, but we are seeing signs that some sites affected ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by ...

There's a familiar TV discourse taking shape online right now, the kind that I suspect will look awfully familiar to you if you remember the way Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its eighth and ...