Introducing Grok 4, the world's most powerful AI model. Watch the livestream now: https://t.co/59iDX5s2ck

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The court in Leipzig ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to other lawsuits.

Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?

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An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes.

Optimizing a math expression parser for speed and memory.

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Can Gemini 2.5 replace CNN for object detection?

Modern CPUs are actually pretty good at predicting the indirect branch inside an interpreter loop, _contra_ the conventional wisdom. We take a deep dive into the ITTAGE indirect branch prediction algorithm, which is capable of making those predictions, and…

Cadavers on display in 'Real Bodies' show were provided by Dalian-based firm known to have acquired corpses from police

Researchers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. developed small robots called "Pipebots" that can travel inside water pipes to find and potentially repair leaks, all without any excavation.

Submerged in about 40 meters of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides and generate electricity.

Ever had to make a 90-degree turn on a bridge? In India, seven engineers just got suspended for designing exactly that...

Adding type parameters to interface types is surprisingly powerful