Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify the experience and better appeal to mainstream users and organizations.

Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology used machine learning tools and social network theory—the study of how people ...

AI-assisted code speeds development, but introduces vulnerabilities at an alarming rate. Waratek IAST reports flaws ...

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More than half of college students are lonely – and those who use social media the most are particularly likely to feel isolated, a study of tens of thousands of 18 to 24-year-olds in the US shows.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of January, Matt Schlicht, a technologist living in a small town just south of Los Angeles, launched a new social network called Moltbook. Like Facebook or Reddit, Moltbook ...

An analysis by WIRED this week found that ICE and CBP’s face recognition app Mobile Fortify, which is being used to identify people across the United States, isn’t actually designed to verify who ...

Someone finally invented a social media site that isn’t terrible for our brains. Unfortunately that’s because it’s populated exclusively by AI agents, with no humans allowed. Called Moltbook, the ...

A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of artificial intelligence. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Last Wednesday, ...

At first glance, Moltbook looks like a regular online chat room. Users post about topics from engineering to philosophy, reply with comments and upvote the best for social kudos. Frequenters of Reddit ...

A viral post asks questions about consciousness. A viral post asks questions about consciousness. is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also ...

On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook reportedly crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating what may be the largest-scale experiment in machine-to-machine social interaction ...