Is Elizabeth Holmes manipulating us all? And why do we keep falling for people who may not be who they seem? Clinical psychologist Dr. Sabrina Romanoff joins Natasha Verma to unpack the psychology ...

A former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA analyst has been sentenced to a decade in prison. On Tuesday, Jefferson County District Court Judge Andrew Poland sentenced Yvonne "Missy" Woods just ...

The Bytecode Alliance will host the Chicory WebAssembly runtime under the name Endive, giving the pure-Java project a foundation-governed home. The change arrives as the runtime adds WasmGC support, ...

Vercel now compiles Python functions to bytecode at build time. In our benchmarks, cold starts for the median-sized function dropped from 2.8s to 1.3s. Cold starts are already rare in practice.

Riot is finally cleaning up VALORANT ranked, with Patch 13.01 introducing penalties for players caught manipulating their rank. Confirmed offenders will face account suspensions, rank reversions, and ...

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Manipulation is a behavior that has been studied extensively in social psychology since the 60s. It has been observed in a wide range of human relationships, from the family to economics and marketing ...

A billboard tries to sell you something. So does a used car salesman. But no matter how smooth the pitch, you’re quite aware of the profit motive, and you can walk away at any time. What if that pitch ...

Update (3/27/26): This piece has been updated with additional examples. Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 ...

Here’s a familiar pitch: Augmenting human intelligence with AI—and AI intelligence with humans—will allow companies to supercharge productivity while maintaining standards. While LLMs may make ...

This photo from the early 1900s depicts a man carrying a giant head in a wheelbarrow. Rijksmuseum A man carries a giant head in a wheelbarrow. Massive geese roam a park. Adolf Hitler puts on a Karl ...