BTech CSE vs BTech ECE: Which Engineering Course is Best?

The CSE (Computer Science Engineering) and ECE (Electronics and Communication Engineering) are two popular engineering ...
Gallaudet University

Math professor’s excellence recognized with Gallaudet’s first endowed professorship

Dr. Mohammad Obiedat has been chosen for the first Alan M. Fisch Professorship in Mathematics, which was established this ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...
The Daily Dot

“They’re programming you”: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey says social media algorithms aren’t serving you—they’re controlling you

Footage of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey warning social media users about what they become while scrolling resurfaced this week. His speech took place at the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024, where he ...
TechCrunch

Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you (with AI data, it won’t need to)

Instagram head Adam Mosseri posted on his account on Wednesday to dispel the myth that the social networking giant is actively “listening” to its users surreptitiously, in order to target them with ...
InfoWorld

Introduction to Java records: Simplified data-centric programming in Java

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...
Phys.org

Largest-ever cosmological simulation created using algorithms for Euclid mission

The consortium running the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid mission has published the most extensive simulation of the cosmos to date. The modeling was based on algorithms developed by UZH ...
CNN

‘Like Prime, but with human beings’: How the Trump administration is using AI to ramp up immigration enforcement

The Trump administration is sharply expanding its use of artificial intelligence in immigration enforcement, using technology not just to track migrants but also to help determine who gets targeted ...
KQED

How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It

Halfway through the first year of President Donald Trump’s second administration, an expansion in operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has led to a 123% increase from 2024 in ...
FedScoop

Why agencies must look beyond ‘post-quantum crypto’ algorithms to secure their data

While the dawn of quantum computing may still be years away, federal agencies are facing a future threat that has already arrived. Adversaries are actively stealing encrypted government information ...
ProPublica

America’s Largest Landlord Makes Deal With DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. What Happened: Greystar, the nation’s largest landlord, has ...
Fast Company

Meta is using tents to build its giant AI data centers

When Mark Zuckerberg announced on July 14 that his company Meta was embarking on a project to build massively power-hungry data centers to support its ambitions for advancing artificial intelligence, ...