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The data inputs that enable modern search and recommendation systems were thought to be secure, but an algorithm developed by ...

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Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun is departing at year-end, urging computer science students to prioritize foundational math and modeling skills with long-term relevance. He emphasized that a ...

A pair of Southern New Hampshire University students are claiming the school shares students’ sensitive personal information, including their GPAs, ethnicities and contact information, with Google and ...

Access to high school computer science courses has plateaued, and overall high school student participation in those classes has declined slightly, concludes Code.org’s annual report on the state of ...

Ripple effect: Whether AI turns out to be a bubble remains to be seen, but it appears young people remain confident that the technology is the future. Just look at universities, which are seeing more ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing that education technology provider Illuminate Education to delete unnecessary student data and improve its security to settle allegations related to an ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

University of Queensland researchers visualized yellow fever virus particles at near-atomic detail, uncovering major structural differences between vaccine and virulent strains. The insights could ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...