For decades, the solution to harder problems has been ‘build a bigger computer’— but ...

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Using LLMs to talk with your friends is efficient. It’s also bad etiquette.

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Nearly 250,000 federal jobs have been cut under Trump, stripping staff from FDA, USDA and HHS and raising concerns about food safety, inspections and oversight.

Lafayette-based Quantum Research Sciences develops software for quantum computers so large they fill up a room, just like the ...

Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of The Com — a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target.

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new way to train artificial intelligence systems to ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

Agentic AI tools like OpenClaw promise powerful automation, but a single email was enough to hijack my dangerously obedient ...