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Locating the backbone of the global telecommunications network we used to think was an internet.

Our tendency to humanise large language models and AI is daft – let’s worry about corporate grabs and environmental damage

I KNEW the ground under my feet had shifted when I asked ChatGPT – the artificial intelligence service that’s freaking everyone out at the…

The first things to know about the Floating University are that it is neither floating nor a university. The next thing to know is that this peculiar

THIS week, Google finally fired that engineer who believed his super-powered chatbot, called LaMDA, had a soul. I’ve been keeping an eye on Blake…

/PRNewswire/ -- The Peter Westbrook Foundation (PWF) is pleased to announce that four PWF athletes have been selected to represent the United States at the...

/PRNewswire/ -- The Peter Westbrook Foundation (PWF) is pleased to announce that four PWF athletes have been selected to represent the United States at the...

The MIT Press has announced the relaunch of the Software Studies series, a book series committed to exploring the vast possibilities, histories, relations, and harms that software encompasses. The revamped series will move beyond broad statements abo

The Software Studies series, from the MIT Press, will integrate a wide range of disciplines — from mathematics to critical race theory, from software art to queer theory — to understand the social and cultural implications of software.

In an era of rampant platformization, the deplatformed - like Alex Jones and Donald Trump - have emerged as a rarefied class of media celebrity, conspicuous by their absence on mainstream social media.