TikTok Ordered to Change Algorithm Over 'Addictive Design,' or Face a Hefty Fine ...

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard ...

European Union regulators say TikTok may be in violation of the Digital Services Act due to the risk it poses for addictive ...

European Union regulators said the app’s infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

The European Union has called TikTok's algorithm and endless scroll illegal and may order the company to alter them ...

The Commission stated that TikTok has not adequately assessed the risks its features pose to users’ well-being. It also ...

According to the European Union, TikTok would need to “change the basic design of its service” by disabling these addictive ...

A new technical paper titled “LongSight: Compute-Enabled Memory to Accelerate Large-Context LLMs via Sparse Attention” was published by researchers at Cornell University. “Large input context windows ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a ...