A true story about the famous Kryptos sculpture and the decades long effort to solve its final unsolved code.

The “one big breakthrough” pattern suggests that total citation counts can mislead. A researcher with one highly-cited paper ...

The source material is a guide from WikiProject AI Cleanup, a group of Wikipedia editors who have been hunting AI-generated articles since late 2023. French Wikipedia editor Ilyas Lebleu founded the ...

The Trump administration’s public response to the mass shooting at Brown University was swift, but it included a major inaccuracy. President Donald Trump said Saturday night that the alleged shooter ...

Public school districts have a responsibility to educate students, safeguard taxpayer money, and provide families with opportunities for success. However, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has become a ...

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Vibe coding — the fast-growing trend of using generative AI to spin up code from plain-language prompts — is quick, creative, and great for instant prototypes. But many argue that it's not cut out for ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

Download PDF Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library Recognizing Rust’s potential, the industry has shown significant interest in migrating legacy systems from C to Rust. Such migration ...

Does the monster's new look reveal something about our modern age? A scene from the new "Frankenstein" film directed by Guillermo del Toro. - Ken Woroner/Netflix This fall Frankenstein’s monster rises ...

This fall Frankenstein’s monster rises once more, summoned this time by Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro. But green-skinned, bolt-necked and flat-skulled he is not. In fact, the monster — who ...