What 20 million bans reveal about the strain on Wikipedia’s volunteers
The numbers for Wikipedia tell a story of change – and stress. Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This year,…
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From Hormuz to the cockpit: How warfare and criminal activity undermine GPS and the race to safeguard navigation
The Strait of Hormuz is just one example of a busy shipping lane where GPS signals are blocked and faked.…
Medicare’s AI Push Snarls Patients and Doctors in Errors and Delays
Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before…
Anyone can fake a scientific image with AI, tricking even academic journals – and undermining trust in science
Are you able to tell the difference between a scientific image made by a person or by an AI model?…
Toy Story 5’s ‘Lilypad’ is an indictment of the world that birthed the ‘iPad Kid’
Some parents call tablets the 'square au pair.' Danielle Villasana/The Washington Post via Getty Images In the trailer for “Toy…
Quantum sensors could spot hidden damage in the thousands of US bridges rated ‘structurally deficient’
The Dames Point Bridge spans a river in Jacksonville, Fla. Jonathan Zander/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Every bridge has parts that…
Listen to the Latest ‘KFF Health News Minute’
June 18 Katheryn Houghton [CATH-er-in HOW-tun] reads the week’s news: New rules that require millions of Americans to work to…
Building data centers in space is an intriguing idea on paper, but major engineering challenges must be solved
Space is full of satellites and debris – data centers could one day join the mix. NicoElNino, NASA/iStock via Getty…
Surging stock market, Donald Trump policies boost wealth for top 1%
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks last year at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Last week’s…
AI schools like Alpha promise efficiency, but can’t replicate the messy process that helps kids learn
Students often learn best when they take risks and struggle to get it right, including on the playground. Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews…
The ‘right to repair’ movement has a point, but consumers should read the warranty fine print first
A recent settlement with farm equipment manufacturer John Deere made it easier for farmers to repair machines on their own,…
Eroding a virtue: AI trains people to expect instant answers – and that’s bad news for patience
When I was growing up, teachers would assign research papers that required going to the library, or later, searching for…
From oversight to coercion: How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line
When researchers founded Anthropic in 2021, they said the race to build powerful AI was moving too recklessly. They inserted…
Drone use poised to soar as FAA homes in on rule change allowing pilots to fly them out of sight
Today, almost anyone who flies a drone must maintain visual contact with it at all times, a practice known as…
Trump’s AI security order acknowledges risks but stops short of regulating industry
Some technology and policy watchers were surprised when President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, establishing…
‘They’re already here’: Regulating data centers stalls in Missouri
Interior of a modern data center (Getty Images). The rapid expansion of hyperscale data centers is far outstripping efforts to…