A long-standing mathematical conundrum has been solved by ChatGPT in a few hours, with only a few simple prompts. The Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is a 30-year-old question in graph theory, but a ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...

Many of us are guilty of a cardinal cybersecurity sin: We reuse old passwords. In a 2025 survey of 2,300 adults, more than half of respondents said they recycled an existing password when updating ...

If, as novelist-philosopher Samuel Butler wrote in 1878, “a hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”, then a galaxy may only be a black hole’s way of making another black hole. To put it ...

Safari will invite users to ‘vibe-code’ their own extensions. Safari will invite users to ‘vibe-code’ their own extensions. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

Critics of artificial intelligence caution that, as a relatively new technology, its long-term effects on the human brain are still unknown. But a new study shows that AI could be dangerous even in ...

For most of that time, I’ve just used the Apple Notes app. It’s fine. It’s a reliable and simple place to keep all of your notes. I’ve also tried seemingly every other note-taking app on the App Store ...

Quantum computers are built around quantum bits, aka "qubits." And no matter which technology is used to create them (and there are many), qubits are incredibly sensitive to even the smallest ...

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 upgrade to ChatGPT and Codex appears to be going smoothly, especially compared to the rockier GPT-5.0 release last August. It turns out OpenAI got ahead of one issue that was brewing ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...