ExpressVPN review 2025: Fast speeds and a low learning curve

ExpressVPN is good at its job. It's easy to be skeptical of any service with a knack for self-promotion, but don't let ExpressVPN's hype distract you from the fact that it keeps its fro [...]

Hacker used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to attack multiple government agencies in Mexico

Here's yet another troubling story about this "golden" era of AI. A hacker has exploited Anthropic's Claude chatbot to carry out attacks against Mexican government agencies, accord [...]

NYU professor fights AI cheating with AI-powered oral exams that cost 42 cents per student

An NYU professor ran oral exams using a voice AI agent. The experiment cost $15 for 36 students and revealed not just gaps in student knowledge, but weaknesses in his own teaching.<br /> The art [...]

NYU’s new AI architecture makes high-quality image generation faster and cheaper

Researchers at New York University have developed a new architecture for diffusion models that improves the semantic representation of the images they generate. “Diffusion Transformer with Represent [...]

NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust

NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran believes a potential AI crash would be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble because the industry is building massive amounts of debt-financed phy [...]

Proton VPN review 2025: A nonprofit service with premium performance

Proton VPN stands out for two main reasons: it's one of the only virtual private networks (VPNs) to include a free plan with no data limits, and it's one of the few services majority-owned b [...]

Multiple US Army websites defaced by hackers critical of Trump — error page displays message criticizing President

The websites were defaced with pro-Kurdish media, and messages directed at Trump and Tom Barrack. [...]

Medical training’s AI leap: How agentic RAG, open-weight LLMs and real-time case insights are shaping a new generation of doctors at NYU Langone

NYU Langone has built an LLM research companion and medical advisor, and is pioneering what it calls AI-driven “precision medical education." [...]

How to check if your VPN is working

One of the disconcerting things about using a virtual private network (VPN) is that it can be hard to tell when it's doing its job. The best VPNs all work in the background to keep your IP addres [...]