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A small fraction of hyperactive social media users generates the vast majority of toxic online content, according to research by New York University psychology professor Jay Van Bavel and colleagues Claire Robertson and Kareena del Rosario. The study found that 10% of users produce roughly 97% of political tweets, while just 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news. Twelve accounts known as the "disinformation dozen" created most vaccine misinformation on Facebook during the pandemic, the research found. In experiments, researchers paid participants to unfollow divisive political accounts on X. After one month, participants reported 23% less animosity toward other political groups. Nearly half declined to refollow hostile accounts after the study ended, and those maintaining healthier newsfeeds reported reduced animosity 11 months later. The research describes social media as a "funhouse mirror" that amplifies extreme voices while muting moderate perspectives.

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Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun

The Rowhammer attack on computer memory is back, and for the first time, it's able to mess with bits in Nvidia GPUs, despite defenses designed to protect against this kind of hacking.…

MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out

Opinion  So, on the 4th of July, a big deal to those on my side of the pond, Elon Musk announced, "We have improved @Grok significantly." On Tuesday, July 8, the results of those changes appeared.…

The royal, 77, was pictured beaming in her garden at her residence Ray Mill House in Wiltshire, while holding her sweet Jack Russell-cross, Moley.

Przemyslaw Jeziorski, a UC Berkeley business professor, was shot and killed by a masked gunman in Greece in broad daylight on July 4.

The dramatic incident, which unfolded in the early hours of July 7 over Tuva, a mountainous region bordering Mongolia, has reignited growing fears over global aviation safety.

It's the stuff of nightmares. Fully conscious, aware of everything and everyone yet unable to move, communicate, or even breathe unassisted.

Ronnie Johnston (pictured), 57, was discovered with life-threatening injuries at the end-terrace property in Teasdale Road, Barrow, shortly before midnight on Saturday.

A Department of Justice filing aiming to recover fraudulently obtained cryptocurrency may have inadvertently revealed the scam's victims as the CEO and CFO of crypto payment firm MoonPay. From a report: The filing, which aims to seize around $40,350 in USDT frozen by Tether, reveals that two victims sent $250,300 in USDT to a person posing as Steve Witkoff, co-chair of the President Trump's inaugural committee. However, records obtained from Binance revealed that the wallet that received the funds was registered to Ehiremen Aigbokhan, a man based in Lagos, Nigeria. The victims are identified in the filing only as "Ivan" and "Mouna." However, as outlet NOTUS noticed, Crypto payment firm Moonpay's CEO is Ivan Soto-Wright and its CFO is Mouna Ammari Siala. Furthermore, a wallet involved in the $250,300 transaction is listed by Etherscan as a MoonPay wallet.

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A grocery store was set on fire in Buenos Aires, Argentina and authorities are looking into whether an old disputed between the owner and his former partner and her son may be related.

McGregor, who has not competed in the UFC for four years, has made headlines for all the wrong reasons since his last outing against Dustin Poirier back in July 2021.

Brad Pitt's estranged son Knox celebrated his 17th birthday at a martial arts competition with mom Angelina Jolie by his side. 

The first glimpse into the highly anticipated HBO show has hit the web, but fans were left divided after they noticed something big about the beloved main character had been changed.

Undeterred by discovering you are probably more likely to be struck by lightning than win a major jackpot, Toby Walne spoke to scratchcard experts to get tips on how to increase your chances of winning.

In an exclusive interview with the Mail, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson insisted children would still learn about reproduction and sexual health at secondary school.

He offered his 'sincere condolences' to those impacted

Cognition AI, an artificial intelligence startup that offers a software coding assistant, said on Monday that it had bought rival Windsurf as part of an escalating battle to lead in the technology. From a report: The move follows a $2.4 billion deal by Google to acquire some of Windsurf's top executives and license the start-up's technology, which was revealed on Friday. Google's deal appeared to leave Windsurf in a difficult position as a stand-alone start-up. OpenAI, the maker of the ChatGPT chatbot, had also been in talks to buy Windsurf before the Google deal. "We've long admired the Windsurf team and what they've built," said Scott Wu, a co-founder of Cognition, in an email to employees viewed by The New York Times. "Within our lifetime, engineers will go from bricklayers to architects, focusing on the creativity of designing systems rather than the manual labor of putting them together."

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Amy Bradley, 23, vanished without a trace while vacationing with her parents and brother Brad on a once-in-a-lifetime Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas cruise.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves pointedly only committed to holding rates on 'taxes that working people pay' amid mounting alarm.

Heartbreaking photos and video footage reveal white storks - one of Europe's biggest birds - tangled up in plastic waste, rope and other harmful human debris.