The New York Times

How Hate Groups and Terrorists Use Gaming Platforms to Recruit Young Children

Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show. By Pranav Baskar Taking a page from the child ...
WCBD

Environmental groups work to protect the Cainhoy Peninsula by creating petition against 30-year-old agreement

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Four environmental groups are seeking to add more protections in one of the last rural areas within the City of Charleston, as a 30-year-old agreement leaves it vulnerable to ...
Science Daily

Using principles of swarm intelligence, study compared platforms that allow brainstorming among large groups

A next-generation technology developed in 2023, conversational swarm intelligence (CSI), combines the principles of ASI with the power of large language models. Humans are not the only species that ...
TechCrunch

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

Adobe has been aggressively adding AI features to all its products in the last few years. The company is now adding more AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of ...
GitHub

Stoppers for using System.Text.Json in PowerShell ConvertTo-Json

There have been a couple of unsuccessful attempts in the PowerShell repository to migrate from NewtonSoft.Json on System.Text.Json . (The last one PowerShell/PowerShell#26654 (comment)) The problem ...
NASCAR

2026 Cook Out Clash: Qualifying format, setting lineup, practice groups explained

Editor’s note: Updated times and day for on-track action. The 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season will kick off in exhibition fashion as 23 drivers will battle at Bowman Gray Stadium on Wednesday, Feb. 4 (6 ...
UPI

Aid groups working to compensate for loss of USAID funding

Since Jan. 20, 2025, the first day of his second term in office, President Donald Trump has slashed U.S. foreign aid spending. It began with a stop-work order that paused spending on everything from ...
Redmond Magazine

Using PowerShell for DIY AI Image Creation. Part 1

Build a local AI image generation workflow using PowerShell, Stable Diffusion and AUTOMATIC1111 on Windows 11. Install Git, Python 3.10.6, and Stable Diffusion WebUI to enable PowerShell-based AI ...
Yahoo

Christy Carlson Romano Reacts to Ashley Tisdale’s ‘Celeb Mom Drama’ and Explains ‘Dynamic’ of Such Groups

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Celeb mom drama is wild to watch unfold from outside the group,” Romano, 41, wrote via Instagram on Monday, January 5, also ...
PBS

AP report: Rise of deepfake cyberbullying poses a growing problem for schools

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the ...
TheWrap

Inside Disney’s Theme Park Pricing Gamble: ‘It’s Not Dynamic Pricing as Much as Dynamic Ratcheting’ | Exclusive

In February 2025, Rich Greenfield, the media and technology analyst at LightShed Partners, a research firm based in New York City, wrote a blog post about the imminent arrival of airline-like dynamic ...
T&D

Creating a Stable Digital Footprint in Dynamic Field Environments

Electrical utilities struggle to meet objectives when GIS and asset data fail to reflect real-world field conditions. To stablize your digital footprint in a shifting physical environment, it helps to ...