Games Inbox: What’s so special about Half-Life 3?

The Friday letters page considers whether Steam Machine will take over Xbox’s role in the games industry, as one reader is ...
Greater Good

Why Some Are More Suspicious of Artificial Intelligence Than Others

How do we trust a human-like technology that we can't understand, that makes mistakes, and that might take our jobs?

Hackers found a way to weaponize CAPTCHA pages, and it's incredibly effective

A year of escalating social-engineering attacks has produced one of the most efficient infection chains observed to date. Known as ClickFix, this method requires only that ...
MIT Technology Review

Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3

SIMA 2, which can figure out how to solve problems inside virtual worlds, could lead to more general-purpose agents and ...
NatureOpinion

‘It keeps me awake at night’: machine-learning pioneer on AI’s threat to humanity

Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI.

Why a researcher is building robots that look and act like bats

Nitin J. Sanket, a professor at WPI, has developed small flying robots with his team that fit in the palm of a hand and use ...