The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.

Amazon.com Inc. is suing Perplexity AI Inc. to try and stop the startup from helping users buy items on the world’s largest online marketplace, setting up a showdown that may have implications for the reach of so-called agentic artificial intelligence.

A deep dive into how JavaScript source maps work under the hood, with examples showing how all the pieces fit together.

Mobile Identify app on Google Play helps police perform tasks delegated by ICE.

If you were hoping for cheaper processors or graphics cards in the next few years, there’s some bad news — TSMC is raising chip prices starting in 2026.The Taiwanese manufacturer, which builds most of the world’s high-end CPUs and GPUs, has told its partners…

AI Data Scientist that builds ML models from a prompt

The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) is investigating a cyberattack on IT systems supplier Miljödata that exposed data belonging to 1.5 million people.

You've been lied to. You don't need the cloud – you can just run servers and save 10x your AWS costs. It's not that difficult.

For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use.

I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining.…

: DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them

With nearly 750 million URLs removed from Google search, popular shadow library Anna's Archive is a top target for copyright holders.

All major web browsers now support WebAssembly, a low-level bytecode
intended to serve as a compilation target for code written in
languages like C and C++. A key goal of WebAssembly is performance
parity with native c…

Scam victims in Singapore have lost around US$2.9 billion since 2020, according to data from the local police.

Someone asked to have SimpleText open a smaller text window at startup. Initially, I assumed this would be a fairly easy fix by just overwriting a few constant values in SimpleText code. It turned...

Apple's Vision team met me in-headset to chat about how unique telepresence Personas have evolved, and where they're going.

The number of fatalities may increase after a UPS plane crashed Tuesday near the Louisville International Airport in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said.

Fires are still burning and the death toll is expected to rise after a UPS aircraft exploded during takeoff at Louisville airport.

"Small merchants who rely more on cashless payments with detailed and traceable paper trails get better access to working-capital loans. In effect, digital footprints are the new credit scores."

Sound: Kalason oto (often simply “ kalason ”) Location : Alahan Panjang, Kab. Solok, West Sumatra This post is dedicated to Pak Budahar - a real Minang musical legend who literally spread music across Sumatra, providing sweet solace to his passengers…

Mamdani will be the youngest New York mayor in a century, NBC News projects, after a rapid rise past Andrew Cuomo and other opponents.