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Bonobos (pictured) and chimpanzees are our closest relatives. A new study looks at how a community of bonobos behave when they encounter a different group of bonobos. It's markedly different from the way chimps treat strangers.

Unlike chimps, bonobos offer hope that maybe we can all get along

Chimps are notorious for hostility toward chimps from another group. Is that part of the human makeup as well? A new study of bonobos, our other closest relative, offers a more cooperative vision.

The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using its published material to train chatbots.

'New York Times' sues ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Microsoft, for copyright infringement

The Times is the first major news publisher to take OpenAI to court over the use of its copyright material in its popular chatbot. The suit follows months of tense negotiations between the two sides.

This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Frank Rubio floating inside the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world." Rubio now holds the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight. Rubio surpassed the U.S. record of 355 days on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, at the International Space Station. He arrived at the outpost last September with two Russians for a routine six months.

A NASA astronaut is back on Earth after a year in space, the longest for an American

Frank Rubio's first mission broke the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight earlier this month. Rubio is a medical doctor and was a lieutenant colonel and Blackhawk helicopter pilot in the Army.

Elon Musk reacts during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, on Nov. 2, 2023.

Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones following a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

De Winton's golden mole, a blind mole that lives beneath the sand, has been rediscovered in Port Nolloth, South Africa. The small mammal has evaded scientists for nearly 90 years, using sensitive hearing that can detect vibrations from movement above the surface.

Holy Mole-y: A sniffer dog helps rediscover a rare mole

The De Winton's golden mole was last spotted in 1936. But with the help of a mole-sniffing dog and new environmental DNA analysis, researchers are taking it off the most wanted lost species list.

Colorado co-offensive coordinator Sean Lewis, left, talks to quarterback Shedeur Sanders during a break in play in the second half of the team's NCAA college football game against Oregon State on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, in Boulder, Colo.

It's official: SDSU taps Colorado's Sean Lewis as next head football coach

"San Diego State University, my family and I can't express how excited we are to be joining this incredible community," Lewis said.

The entrance to University of San Diego. Feb. 12, 2021.

University of San Diego launches masters program for restorative justice

The University of San Diego has started a masters program for restorative justice, joining just three other programs across the country, it was announced Tuesday.

Amazon-owned Goodreads makes little effort to verify users, and critics say this enables a practice known as review-bombing, in which a book is flooded with negative reviews, often from fake accounts, in an effort to bring down a its rating, sometimes for reasons having nothing to do with the book's contents.

Goodreads has a 'review bombing' problem — and wants its users to help solve it

Posting a torrent of fake negative book reviews — sometimes before a book is out or has even been written — is a known problem on the literary social media site.

Marvin Jones (left) and Rose Washington-Jones (center), from Tulsa, Okla., took part in the AI red-teaming challenge at Def Con earlier this month with Black Tech Street.

AI is biased. The White House is working with hackers to try to fix that

The White House is concerned that AI can perpetuate discrimination. So they helped host a red-teaming challenge at the Def Con hacker convention in Las Vegas to help figure out some of the flaws.

Participants at the 2023 Def Con hacker convention, trying to subvert AI chatbots as part of a contest to test the systems' vulnerabilities.

What happens when thousands of hackers try to break AI chatbots

In a Jeopardy-style game at the annual Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas, hackers tried to get chatbots from OpenAI, Google and Meta to create misinformation and share harmful content.

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