Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer, conducted ...

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

A machine just solved math problems that stumped humans for decades. Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus, a system that fuses large language models with the Lean formal proof assistant, has ...

Equipment malfunctions are costly and disruptive. When equipment goes down and work stops, the hourly cost to a business ranges from $36,000 in fast-moving consumer goods to $2.3 million in the ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

Around the world, algorithms are increasingly being asked to do something once reserved for human judgment: help decide who should remain free and who should be deprived of liberty. In recent years, ...

Abstract: To measure and improve the strength of test suites, software projects and their developers commonly use code coverage and aim for a threshold of around 80%. But what is the 80 % of the ...

The largest AI infrastructure capex cycle in history—$450B+ annually—faces a 25-35% risk of disappointment within 18-24 months due to revenue and power constraints. Hyperscalers’ AI capex now consumes ...

PROTECTING THE U.S. ECONOMY AND NATIONAL INTERESTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation imposing a temporary import duty to address fundamental international payments problems and ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...