The gamblers who beat the house to win millions – and how they did it

In the 1970s, tech-mad rebels Bill Nelson, Rob Reitzen and Bill Benter developed the algorithms that define gambling today ...

Andrew Hacker, Author Who Challenged Conventional Thinking, Dies at 96

In a host of books and articles, he attacked conventional ideas on subjects including the battle of the sexes and the ...

From floppy discs to Claude Mythos, how ransomware grew into a multibillion‑dollar industry

The first piece of ransomware was sent it out on 20,0000 floppy discs in 1989, to raise awareness of health- rather than ...
New Atlas

Self-improving AI model has people talking – for good reason

If it feels like AI is developing too fast to keep up with, a group of Chinese researchers have some bad news – because ...

Why can’t we find things right in front of us?

Why do we often fail to spot objects in plain sight? Scientists say the brain’s visual search system, driven by attention and ...
The Boston Globe

Boston VC Jon McNeill dishes about his time at Tesla and Lululemon in new book

Jon McNeill was one of Boston’s most successful serial entrepreneurs, on the verge of selling his sixth startup in 2015, when he met Elon Musk and took a detour to the West Coast to help run Tesla for ...
The New York Times

The Life-Changing Power of a Book Review Before Algorithms

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. Credit...Tom Etherington Supported by By David Streitfeld David Streitfeld, a reporter ...
IEEE

LLM-Driven Evolutionary Algorithm Selection: Bidirectional Framework and Sampling Paradigm

Abstract: Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) exhibit diverse performance across different optimization problems, making the automated selection of the most suitable EA an important yet challenging task.
The Hollywood Reporter

Spotify Adds Physical Books to Audiobook Offering

The tech platform will allow readers to move between physical and audiobooks and offer the sale of books from independent bookstores. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer About two years after the launch ...
Publishers Weekly

Publishers Seek to Join Class Action Against Google

In a move they hope will strengthen a class action lawsuit against Google and its generative AI product Gemini, two Association of American Publishers members have asked a court to allow them to take ...
Los Angeles Times

Why this film critic’s new book reads like a doom scroll of cultural decay

As movies have morphed from a vibrant public event into a product we watch on our personal screens, film criticism has also been disrupted thanks to apps like Letterboxd. Fortunately, film critic A. S ...
Publishers Weekly

Word-of-Mouth Recs Best AI at Everand, Fable

Personal recommendations continue to drive book discovery more than algorithms, social media, and other digital tools, according to the 2026 State of Reading Report released today by Everand and Fable ...