Internet

Hackers have already infiltrated electric vehicle chargers, usually for innocuous reasons, but bad actors could use that foothold to bring down the power grid

Russia and other nations are working on “sovereign Internet” systems that threaten digital rights—and the stability of the global Internet 

In the guise of collecting scientific data, data brokers are running a massive privacy invasion. Researchers should stop helping them

An AI-driven political campaign could be all things to all people

Artificial intelligence algorithms will soon reach a point of rapid self-improvement that threatens our ability to control them and poses great potential risk to humanity

Much of the open-source intelligence (OSINT) community ignores ethical questions and the safety risks of reporting discoveries from the war in Ukraine

Math is called the “universal language,” but a unique dialect is being reborn

Artificial-intelligence-powered image-generating systems are making fake photographs so hard to detect that we need AI to catch them

A social psychologist found that showing people how manipulative techniques work can create resilience against misinformation

Gonzalez v. Google seeks to hold tech giants accountable for recommendation algorithms in a complicated case that could see the Supreme Court meddle in more than 25 years of Internet policy

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lining the seafloor are vulnerable to sea-level rise, storms and other climate impacts, research shows

Google, Microsoft and Baidu are using tools similar to ChatGPT to turn Internet searches into a conversation. How will this change humanity’s relationship with machines?