Meet the 'croc docs' who track gators, pythons in Florida Everglades

International Women and Girls in Science Day, Feb. 11, promotes full and equal access to and participation in STEM fields for ...
PCMag

Another Week, Another Data Disaster: Substack, Coinbase, and a Malicious Notepad++ Update

If you have accounts on any of these services, now's a good time to check your security settings. Plus more from a busy week ...
eWeek

Moltbook Bots Build Lobster Cult

Who needs humans when a purported 1.5 million agents trade lobster memes and start their own religion? Moltbook, vibe-coded by Octane AI founder Matt Schlicht in a weekend (he cla ...
Bleeping Computer

Notepad++ fixes flaw that let attackers push malicious update files

Notepad++ version 8.8.9 was released to fix a security weakness in its WinGUp update tool after researchers and users reported incidents in which the updater retrieved malicious executables instead of ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

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 ...
Ars Technica

Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”

Last month, OpenAI published a usage study showing that nearly 15 percent of work-related conversations on ChatGPT had to deal with “making decisions and solving problems.” Now comes word that at ...
WBUR

Using ChatGPT as a homework tool? MIT researcher says think twice

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. With schools back in session, many teachers, ...
People

With the Python Challenge Over, Florida Turns to Robotic Rabbits to Stop Invasive Snakes

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park South Florida Water Management District via AP; AP Photo/Lynne Sladky ...
CNN

Your kid is using AI for homework this year. Now what?

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

What Are Passkeys—and What Do You Need to Know About Using Them?

For those who hate repeatedly entering usernames and passwords, some of the biggest online companies are pushing an alternative: passkeys. Passkeys work by using a pair of unique mathematical values—a ...
The Conversation

Older Americans are using AI − study shows how and what they think of it

Robin Brewer receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. She has previously received funding from Google, the Retirement Research Foundation, and the U ...
The Conversation

Politicians are using social media to campaign – new research tells us what works and what doesn’t

Emma Connolly does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...