Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Meta announced on Tuesday a new Facebook algorithm update that will showcase more Reels videos tailored to users’ preferences. The update includes features that offer users greater control over the ...

A potential TikTok deal emerged Monday between the US and China, two days before the Trump administration's latest sell or be banned deadline. Now, attention is shifting to the app's Chinese algorithm ...

The US version of TikTok will reportedly still use the Chinese algorithm, but the American investors will have control over it. The latest report comes just a day after a deal with the US and China ...

Google antitrust case shows that the AI Overviews ranking process does not use links as part of the ranking process. A sharp-eyed search marketer discovered the reason why Google’s AI Overviews showed ...

Data security involves implementing strategies to safeguard digital information against unauthorized disclosure and modification across computing and communication infrastructures. Given the ...

Nearest neighbor search is a fundamental data structure problem with many applications in machine learning, computer vision, recommendation systems and other fields. Although the main objective of the ...

I wasn't a big fan of Google's AI Overviews when they debuted atop Google Search. I still don't like the feature, even though it's more reliable than it was early on and, supposedly, quite popular ...

Dana Heitz reviews a criminal case out of Arizona involving AI-generated evidence. She sets out some ethical considerations for its future use—an issue of interest to attorneys and courts in New York, ...