You should never have to work with the root user account on Linux, especially on a desktop installation. There can be occasions when you need to use root on a server. If you must use root, do so with ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

In December, we welcomed 21 new analysts to Seeking Alpha. This article showcases their stock picks and investment strategies ...

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

TikTok’s top executive announced to employees that ByteDance, the social-media juggernaut’s parent company, has signed deals to create a U.S. joint venture majority-owned by U.S. companies, Bloomberg ...

Elon Musk's Grok, the chatbot developed by his company xAI, acknowledged "lapses in safeguards" on the AI platform that allowed users to generate digitally altered, sexualized photos of minors. The ...

On a Google support page, the company says it is rolling out a new option to let users change their email address even if it is an “@gmail.com” address. For quite some time now, Google has allowed ...

Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor The TikTok sale is officially happening, with a consortium of American investors set to take over U.S.

TikTok’s long-delayed plan to separate from Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. was put in motion Thursday when the video sharing sensation said it’s being bought by a group of buyers led by Oracle Corp.

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Inside our homes, though, Amazon Alexa has become the most popular virtual assistant in the US and around the world, as a widely adopted virtual ...

Congress wants to know why the Space Force needs a special operations component command, and wants answers before any taxpayer money is spent on creating it. The then-head of U.S. Special Operations ...

Security researchers have found that attackers are using ChatGPT to trick Mac users into pasting a command line into Terminal which installs malware. Specifically, it installs MacStealer, which allows ...