Chatbots can be overly agreeable. To get less agreeable responses, ask for opposing viewpoints, multiple perspectives, and a ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

For a fairly new Linux user, things can be a bit overwhelming in the beginning. While the robustness and unlimited customizability options are attractive, performing basic tasks can be daunting, ...

Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

Newly disclosed vulnerabilities in SAP GUI for Windows and Java store user data with outdated or no encryption, posing compliance and breach risks for enterprises. SAP GUI, a trusted interface for ...

Either way, let’s not be in denial about it. Credit...Illustration by Christoph Niemann Supported by By Kevin Roose and Casey Newton Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are the hosts of The Times’s “Hard ...

A year ago, I wrote a piece here about how people were really using gen AI. That article seemed to hit a note: It was popular, featured in viral posts, and the beautiful accompanying infographic has ...

Microsoft is expanding functionality for agentic AI into its Azure AI Foundry platform, furthering one of the hottest areas of development right now. The company this week announced two new features, ...

We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

I have a number of hang-ups — to paraphrase Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates, all of us are a little (screwed) up — but one I didn’t realize I had until recently is alexinomia: the fear of ...