To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy ...

Infostealer threats are rapidly expanding beyond traditional Windows-focused campaigns, increasingly targeting macOS environments, leveraging cross-platform languages such as Python, and abusing ...

Each user session is assigned a dedicated Docker container that runs until the browser tab is closed. If your code imports a package that is not available, the sandbox automatically installs it from ...

One of the most pressing challenges to the continued deployment of nuclear energy systems is in the ultimate management and disposition of discharged fuel assemblies. While reprocessing and recovery ...

A major new meta-analysis finds that vegetarian and vegan diets can support healthy growth in children when properly planned. Kids on plant-based diets often had better heart health markers, including ...

There is no evidence that Nuno F.G. Loureiro, an M.I.T.-affiliated scientist who was fatally shot Monday at his home in Brookline, Mass., was killed in an antisemitic attack. It’s not even clear that ...

A while ago, I was asked by a former colleague about the best way to convert Parquet files into comma-separated values (CSV) format using Python. The honest answer? It depends. And so on and so on ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

A necessarily oversimplified excerpt from the >12K-word Stand with Us Center for Legal Justice v. MIT, decided by First Circuit Judge William Kayatta, joined by Judge Gustavo Gelpi and District Judge ...

It’s easy to get caught up in technology wars—Python versus Java versus NextBigLanguage—but the hardest part of AI isn’t the tools, it’s the people. Domain knowledge, skills, and adoption matter more ...