TikTok and Meta risked safety to win algorithm arms race, whistleblowers say

A senior Meta researcher, Matt Motyl, said the company's competitor to TikTok, Instagram Reels, was launched in 2020 without sufficient safeguards. Internal research shared with the BBC showed ...
Tech Xplore

Shortest paths research narrows a 25-year gap in graph algorithms

Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

Bitcoin’s quantum upgrade path: What BIP-360 changes and what it does not

Bitcoin’s BIP-360 introduces P2MR to reduce quantum risk. Here is what changes, what trade-offs come with it and what it does not fix.
People

Martin Short's Daughter Katherine Dies at 42: 'The Short Family Is Devastated by This Loss'

"It is with profound grief that we confirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Short," the Short family shared with PEOPLE in a statement Sean Mandell is a Senior Reporter at PEOPLE. He joined PEOPLE in ...
Entertainment Weekly

Martin Short's daughter Katherine dies at 42, family 'devastated' by loss: 'Katherine was beloved by all'

Katherine Short, the eldest daughter of legendary comedian and actor Martin Short, has died at 42. A representative for the Only Murders in the Building star shared a statement confirming the news and ...
PBS

National security experts argue U.S. TikTok deal falls short

President Trump announced a deal to keep TikTok available in the U.S. The agreement caps a six-year legal and geopolitical fight after Congress passed a law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese ...
Hackaday

When Electricity Doesn’t Take The Shortest Path

Everyone knows that the path of least resistance is the path that will always be taken, be it by water, electricity or the feet of humans. This is where the PCB presented by [ElectrArc240] on YouTube ...
TweakTown

Elon Musk will reveal what makes X, formerly Twitter, tick with public algorithm reveal

TL;DR: Elon Musk announced that X, formerly Twitter, will launch a new open-source algorithm within seven days, revealing the code behind content recommendations for organic and advertising posts.
IEEE

Multi-Objective Optimization for Multimodal Multi-Objective Multi-Point Shortest Path Problem Considering Unforeseeable Road Eventualities

Abstract: Multi-objective multi-point shortest path planning problems are commonly encountered in real-world applications. Numerous path planning algorithms have been proposed to accommodate different ...
GitHub

A Rust implementation of the O(m log^(2/3) n) Single-Source Shortest Paths algorithm for directed graphs with non-negative edge weights, as described in the paper:

"Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths" by Ran Duan, Jiayi Mao, Xiao Mao, Xinkai Shu, and Longhui Yin (2025) Use the road_network_benchmark example to evaluate the ...
Reuters

What is so special about TikTok's algorithm?

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...