By teaching machines to understand our true desires, one scientist hopes to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of having them do what we command.

Imagine arriving at the airport just in time to catch a plane. Everything in your behavior betrays the heightened concentration of your attention. Your mind on alert, you look for the departures si…

War is causing havoc and destruction in Syria. However, children remain innocent within this realm and their pursuits of playtime and fun are undiminished.

As previously discussed, the gmane.org domain was no longer viable, and the NNTP server has now moved to news.gmane.io. Likewise, mailing list subnoscriptions have been moved from m.gmane.org to m.gm…

For the first time, Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, speaks at length about his investigations into the case of Julian Assange.

While WireGuard was merged into Linux 5.6, the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release is currently tracking Linux 5.4 and for the April release is likely to be shipping with Linux 5.5 as the 5.6 release will be cutting it too close

We’ve all been there, right? You debug something, you try telnet to see if a port is open, and now you’re stuck in a telnet session.

Chemicals in plastics can build up in seabirds at levels thousands of times higher than normal.

Alice Tangerini and her colleagues have devoted their lives to the task of discovering, and thus protecting, plant species and their ecologies that are the basis of life on Earth.

Fifteen percent of the world's adults -- or more than 750 million people -- say they would like to move to another country if they had the opportunity. This is up from previous years, but still shy of the record high of 16% set between 2007 and 2009.

Office that oversees California non-profits demands extensive documentation. The California Attorney general has likely delayed approval of the .org sale to Ethos Capital by two months, if not more, after demanding extensive documentation from ICANN. The…

The spreading swarms, triggered by cyclone rains, threaten crops in East Africa

Denoscription of earliest cases suggests outbreak began elsewhere