Here are 25 long-reads to add to your end-of-year reading list. You can also explore our most-read stories of the year. 1.

As social media platforms rely more heavily on algorithmic feeds, creators are adjusting to a reality where publishing ...

I think that 2025 was the year where the algorithm completely took over, so followings stopped mattering entirely,” LTK CEO ...

Explore the inner workings of the javax.crypto.Cipher class in Java's cryptography API: understand its provider-based architecture ...

The numbers tell a striking story. Forty-three percent of companies now use AI for hiring—nearly double last year's 26%. Yet ...

But three AI stocks currently have similar market caps around $1.6 trillion as of this writing, and are vying to become the ...

Genius does not shrink at the borders of the system, the system must grow to accommodate it. The ‘system’ in question — such ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get ...

Discover how the Luhn Algorithm verifies credit card accuracy, supports secure transactions, and helps prevent errors in inputting Social Security numbers.

When people can choose between thinking or asking AI, they choose AI, even when their own thinking would work better. The ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. President Donald Trump announced a ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...