The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, on the unique upbringing that inspired a tech revolution.
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, on the unique upbringing that inspired a tech revolution. Tim Berners-Lee has well and truly changed the world. For under-35s it's almost ...
Unmasking dark web criminals isn’t easy, but researchers are figuring out how to use their own language against them.
They’re the demographic sandwiched between the massive Baby Boomers and the media-obsessed Millennials, leading to their ...
The UK government will allow tech firms and child safety charities to proactively test artificial intelligence (AI) tools to ...
Here we go again. Just as teachers finally became adept at using technology to spot when a student had cut-and-pasted a research paper, they now must deal with technology that can generate “original” ...
They say most online content is generated by bots and algorithms, so maybe humans aren't the dominant species on the World ...
Ah, the ’90s! A magical time when life was simpler, and kids navigated a world that felt like a giant playground. If you were ...
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A Theory of Dumb

In a paper published last year, Shumailov called this “model collapse,” a process by which an AI system becomes, in his words ...
As AI-generated content floods the web, what happens when humans stop being the primary creators or consumers online? A human ...
Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure. The outages ...