Texts show Rep. Tony Gonzales sent sexually explicit messages to staffer

Ahead of his March 3 primary, the Texas Republican faced an Office of Congressional Conduct investigation into an alleged ...
Scientific American

Poetry was humanity’s first language technology. AI is the next

Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...
CNN

13 controversial redactions from the Epstein files — and what we’re learning about them

This has been a big week in the long-running — and still very much not-over — saga of the Jeffrey Epstein files. That’s because we’ve begun to learn more about the Justice Department’s controversial ...
Nature

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too

In my fourth year as a postdoctoral researcher, in 2005, I published ten papers. This was an enormous output for one year. At that rate, I reflected, I could publish 100 papers in a decade.
Dark Reading

Shadow#Reactor Uses Text Files to Deliver Remcos RAT

A campaign known as Shadow#Reactor uses text-only files to deliver a Remcos remote access Trojan (RAT) to compromise victims, as opposed to a typical binary. Researchers with security vendor Securonix ...
The New York Times

Redacted Material in Some Epstein Files Is Easily Recovered

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored. By Santul Nerkar ...
HotHardware

Tired Of Windows 11's AI Bloat? Use This Tool To Remove It All In Seconds

It's no secret that Microsoft's drive to turn Windows 11 into an "agentic" AI-focused OS has been controversial, but being de facto market leader does not mean users won't push back, and a handy ...
The New York Times

Trump Says House Republicans Should Vote to Release Epstein Files

President Trump reversed himself as he faced the prospect that dozens of Republicans could vote this week to compel his administration to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein. By Ashley Ahn ...
ZDNet

You can search for files in Windows using Copilot now - here's how

You can now search for files through the Copilot app. The new search requires a Copilot+ PC and Windows 11 insider access. The feature works by scanning the files in your Recents folder. Follow ZDNET: ...
Reuters

Oil falls as OPEC+ output hike adds to oversupply concerns

NEW YORK, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell to their lowest levels in a week on Monday after OPEC+ agreed to another large output increase in September, adding to oversupply concerns after U.S. data ...
The Washington Post

We texted nearly 1,100 Americans about Trump and the Epstein files. Here’s what they said.

How closely are Americans following news about government files from the federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, and what do they think about President Donald Trump’s handling of the issue? The ...