Wikipedia briefly went into "read-only mode" this morning and disabled article editing after a malicious piece of code was detected that could delete entries. Initially, Wikipedia editors uncovered ...

Update: Added Wikimedia Foundation's statement below and made a correction to denote it was only the Meta-Wiki that was vandalized. The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a ...

In an attempt to understand our own fascination with the shiny minerals, researchers gave some to chimps. A chimp named Toti attentively observes a quartz crystal at a rehabilitation facility in Spain ...

Up to a third of people worldwide have shoulder pain; it’s one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints. But medical imaging might not reveal the problem—in fact, it could even cloud it. In a ...

Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case. Interview by Patrick Healy With Steve ...

A SURVEILLANCE CAMERA ACROSS THE STREET CAUGHT THE MOMENT AS A CAR PLOWED THROUGH THE DEEP SNOW ACROSS TWO FRONT YARDS IN AVON. THE CAR GRAZED THE FRONT OF THIS HOME, KNOCKING OFF THE WINDOW SHUTTERS, ...

A Waymo robotaxi struck a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica on January 23, according to the company. Waymo told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that the child ...

What if you could turn chaotic, unstructured text into clean, actionable data in seconds? Better Stack walks through how Google’s Lang Extract, an open source Python library, achieves just that by ...

Kelly Lambert received funding from the NIH and NSF. When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on the bathroom floor, the ...

“I THINK 2026 can be a very good year.” What could be a slurred festive toast is in fact the cheerful forecast of Scott Bessent, America’s treasury secretary, who expects the calendar’s turn to herald ...

As if it’s not bad enough that artificial intelligence is coming for your job—or at least making it worse—and the data centers fueling it are raising your utility bills and destroying your environment ...

'Twas three weeks before Christmas, and in the prison yard, a drone-dropped package was found by a guard. With steak, weed and crab legs, and cigarettes for days. And to season it all, a tin of Old ...