Diffusion language models offer unique benefits over autoregressive models due to their potential for parallelized generation and controllability, yet they lag in likelihood modeling and are...

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Your grandpa probably really did walk 5 miles to school in a foot of snow. A look at the changing numbers for how American students get to school.

Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server – messages are synchronized directly between the…

When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.

Transit agencies keep choosing hydrogen buses due to cognitive biases like anchoring, operational tunnel vision, and reliance on misleading narratives.

When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black T-shirt

I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I'm sharing how I did it, along with the full source code.




Update: since this article was written, a new version of Akira ransomware has appeared that…

European adults with obesity who limited eating to any of three 8-hour window timeframes each day lost weight and improved cardiometabolic health.

The accounts were frozen in February, but documents filed today make public details which had previously been unknown.

“You lose it, and then what do you do? You don’t give up. You go back in.”…

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subnoscription assistant.

Building bridges without blue bubbles.

Updated: March 4, 2025

Most countries spend less than 1% of their national income on foreign aid; even small increases could make a big difference.