Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel? Credit...Ahmed Gaber for The New York Times Supported by By Kashmir Hill ...

PITTSFIELD – When the state’s affordable housing finance agency launched a multimillion-dollar grant program to fix up blighted properties in struggling mill towns three years ago, the biggest chunk ...

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In an age of vibecoding and AI assistants, there’s something admirable about the desire to work within a set of limitations when coding. Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to ...

Forward-looking: Redmond is hell-bent on making printing on Windows a more modern and secure experience. A new printing framework is coming that could strip users of some choices while allegedly ...

Time to hang it up? Microsoft will be giving some employees that chance. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is offering a one-time voluntary retirement program for the first time in its 51-year ...

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Unit sales of print books had a slow start in 2026, according to data from Circana BookScan. Total unit sales fell 3.1% compared to a year ago for the quarter ending March 28, 2026, dropping to 163.5 ...

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...

Community members can vote for their favorite businesses on the ballot and compete for a gift card. The awards this year are the program's sixth and 80 winners will be chosen and celebrated at a gala ...

Scientists have found a promising new way to manufacture one of industry’s toughest materials—tungsten carbide–cobalt—using advanced 3D printing. Normally, producing this ultra-hard material requires ...