We fully decrypted SearchGuard, the anti-bot system protecting Google Search. Here's exactly how Google tells humans and bots apart.

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

As the year comes to a close, Jessica Scanlon, founder of Hot Dog Marketing, can already cross one item off of her 2026 to-do list: renewing her Historically Underutilized Business program status.

Federal investigators searched locations tied to five Minnesota businesses Wednesday as they look into what they are calling a “massive scheme” to defraud the state’s Housing Stabilization Services ...

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader ...

Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, introduced LiteRBS (Lightweight and Rapid Bidirectional Search), a novel grid-based pathfinding algorithm designed for efficient and scalable navigation in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Footage of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey warning social media users about what they become while scrolling resurfaced this week. His speech took place at the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024, where he ...

Implementations of three post-quantum encryption algorithms standardized by NIST on a hardware security module from Entrust have been successfully validated, giving enterprises assurance that they can ...

People’s views are becoming more and more polarized, with “echo chambers”—social bubbles that reinforce existing beliefs—exacerbating differences in opinion. This divergence doesn’t just apply to ...

Google Search head Liz Reid says traffic remains ‘relatively stable’ despite the popularity of AI Overviews. Google Search head Liz Reid says traffic remains ‘relatively stable’ despite the popularity ...

AI upstarts were supposed to lay siege to Google’s search-engine dominance. So far, the defense is winning. Google’s ubiquitous search tool has proven surprisingly resilient to competition from the ...