A flurry of admonishments erupts from two parents nearby, and I turn to see a small child half-naked and rising from a squat on the gravel path. Pull your pants up! they say, pull your shirt down! as ...

Next weekend will be the 186th convention of the National Puzzlers' League, in Bloomington, Ind., which I'll be attending as always. Two other people who will be there are Henri Picciotto and Joshua ...

Sometimes the jokes really do write themselves in British politics, don't they? As this week we're watching Reform leader and MP for Clacton, Nigel Farage, take a leaf out of Trump's playbook and ...

Thursday marked the final day of the offseason program for C.J. Stroud and the Houston Texans, and the fourth-year quarterback continues to spark strong reactions ahead of what figures to be a ...

New research found that pauses, filler words, and the timing of speech patterns were linked to cognitive performance. Experts say this research could help track subtle changes leading to dementia in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Words Across Europe, the virtual reality-based writers’ room program, has unveiled its 2026 cohort. Nine writers hailing from across the European continent will take part, having been ...

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Using AI to write is a disordered and deforming means of fulfilling a good desire. The church must offer something better. A major publisher recently pulled a new novel for a novel reason: a strong ...

“WTF?” “Dammit!” “Now I’m really annoyed.” Cursing out a flailing AI helper is something we’ve all done, but it turns out one of the most popular Claude tools is actively checking our messages for ...

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 ...

Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Larysa Vdovychenko / iStock / Getty Images In today’s episode of f*ck the patriarchy, there’s a new website called “Check Her Body Count” that claims to use AI ...

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...