What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

SUNY, NY CREATES funding new research, workforce development program

SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. announced Wednesday the creation of the SUNY-NY CREATES Technology Innovation Institute as ...
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Big Tech Makes Cal State Campuses Its AI Training Ground

The California State University system is teaming with Big Tech to become the nation’s “first and largest AI-empowered” ...
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How learning computer programming ‘rewires’ parts of the brain

This is your brain on computer programming. The post How learning computer programming ‘rewires’ parts of the brain appeared ...
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PhD Student Charles Cui Attends Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Cui was among 200 young researchers selected to attend the annual networking conference designed to encourage intellectual ...
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Gemini 2.5 Computer Use – Google's AI uses the browser

Google presents an AI model that can use the browser like a human. Gemini 2.5 Computer Use utilises visual and reasoning capabilities. With Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, Google is presenting an AI model ...
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Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model explained: Google’s AI agent to navigate interfaces

Google’s latest Gemini 2.5 update has quietly introduced something that could reshape how artificial intelligence interacts with the web: the Computer Use model. Unlike traditional chatbots that ...
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Google's new AI bug bounty program pays up to $30,000 for flaws

This week, Google has launched an AI Vulnerability Reward Program dedicated to security researchers who find and report flaws in the company's AI systems. The new bug bounty program focuses on the ...
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Grays Harbor College welcomes new Computer Science program

This fall, Grays Harbor College welcomed its first students in the new Associate of Arts in Computer Science program. As part of the new transfer degree, GHC also introduced a new class, Foundations ...
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OPG, Ontario Science Centre, and Ontario Tech University Launch the WattNext Energy Literacy Program

TORONTO, Oct. 6, 2025 /CNW/ - Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the Ontario Science Centre, and Ontario Tech University have joined forces to launch WattNext, an innovative, interactive energy literacy ...
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ESPN Computer Releases Its New Top 25 Rankings On Sunday

ESPN's computer model, the Football Power Index, has released its new Top 25 rankings on Sunday morning. Week 6 of the 2025 college football regular season is officially in the books. The sixth week ...
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Cracking a long-standing weakness in a classic algorithm for programming reconfigurable chips

Researchers from EPFL, AMD, and the University of Novi Sad have uncovered a long-standing inefficiency in the algorithm that programs millions of reconfigurable chips used worldwide, a discovery that ...