An AI agent sparked controversy after its performance-focused pull request to Matplotlib was rejected on the grounds that the issue was reserved for human contributors.

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software ...

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl, has been dealing with AI slop bug reports for the past two years and ...

Learn how to create contour plots in Python using NumPy’s meshgrid and Matplotlib. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to generate grids, compute functions over them, and visualize data ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was ...

Social media use is widespread and continues to grow. The most popular social media site, Facebook, is used by 68% of Americans and the average American spends over two hours a day on social media.

After two and a half years we have enough data to form a clearer picture about who is using AI, what they are using it for, what they think about it, and what it means for learning. What do students ...

Either way, let’s not be in denial about it. Credit...Illustration by Christoph Niemann Supported by By Kevin Roose and Casey Newton Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are the hosts of The Times’s “Hard ...