Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...

The next time someone cuts down your favorite jam at the jukebox line at your local bar, you might not be the only one quietly fuming. One West Virginia TikToker says he knows the reason why. In fact, ...

Grok users can still make sexualized images of real people within the X and Grok apps, just not by tagging the @Grok account. I tried the Grok tool on images of myself. It quickly took off my clothes.

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ATLANTA — Drivers in metro Atlanta say yellow school bus warning lights don’t stay on long enough to give them time to slow down, resulting in $1,000 fines. “I did slow down, kept going and really ...

Companies’ latest return-to-office push is barely noticeable. That’s the point. After waves of RTO mandates yielded mixed results, employers are betting a subtler strategy will be more effective at ...

Frustrated by a broken job market flooded with AI-screened applications, job seekers are swiping right on dating apps to find internships and employment opportunities. About one-third of dating app ...

A WBEZ analysis finds student attendance briefly plummeted following intense moments of immigration enforcement, but overall rates are comparable to last year. Some credit “magic school buses” and ...

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s a common adage, but a few learner drivers in the United Kingdom are taking that to extremes. According to the UK’s Automobile Association (AA), ...

The mysterious Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS appears to have no cometary tail in new images, which would eliminate the conventional explanation for the surprising “non-gravitational ...

People in the United States have a rare chance to see something special in the night sky this week. A space object called 3I/Atlas is passing through our solar system — and for a short time, it may be ...