The Island has recently published various articles on AI, and they are thought-provoking. This article is based on a paper I presented at a London University seminar, 22 years ago. Will computers ever ...

On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering ...

Microsoft fixes a critical Notepad vulnerability in Windows 11 that could allow remote code execution via malicious Markdown files. Here are the details ...

Attackers don't need AI to crack passwords, they build targeted wordlists from an organization's own public language. This article explains how tools like CeWL turn websites into high-success password ...

In 1843, Ada Lovelace published notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, outlining how a machine could follow instructions to perform complex operations and manipulate symbols beyond arithmetic.

A 20-year follow-up of the ACTIVE study found that older adults who did speed-based cognitive training, especially with later ...

Discover what sets human intelligence apart in this artificial intelligence comparison. Learn why human vs AI reveals ...

Just last week the Chinese firm Moonshot AI released its latest open-weight model, Kimi K2.5, which came close to top proprietary systems such as Anthropic’s Claude Opus on some early benchmarks. The ...

Military units don’t win wars by themselves, but they can transcend their roles on the battlefield to become something else entirely. Certain units have become the stuff of legends, serving as symbols ...

Questioning the reality laid forth by mass media outlets and capitalist ventures is top of the mind in our AI-careening, algorithmic advertising-fed contemporary visual landscape, but, as this exhibit ...

Catholics making use of the protections afforded to creators under U.S trademark law is nothing new, but it's a balancing act not easily managed.

Gisele Pelicot, a survivor of mass rapes organised by her husband at their home in southern France, reveals her shock and ...