Imagine you're involved with someone who knows exactly what captures your attention. They know what makes you laugh, what makes you angry and which topics you like to talk about. They've been paying ...

For nearly a century, ambitious professionals have turned to books about persuasion for help getting other people to say yes. From Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People to more ...

A former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA analyst has been sentenced to a decade in prison. On Tuesday, Jefferson County District Court Judge Andrew Poland sentenced Yvonne "Missy" Woods just ...

Java lacks the nameOf expression found in languages like C#, but one developer demonstrated you can build it anyway by teaching the Java Virtual Machine to rat itself out. The experiment, detailed in ...

The Bytecode Alliance will host the Chicory WebAssembly runtime under the name Endive, giving the pure-Java project a foundation-governed home. The change arrives as the runtime adds WasmGC support, ...

Vercel now compiles Python functions to bytecode at build time. In our benchmarks, cold starts for the median-sized function dropped from 2.8s to 1.3s. Cold starts are already rare in practice.

Riot is finally cleaning up VALORANT ranked, with Patch 13.01 introducing penalties for players caught manipulating their rank. Confirmed offenders will face account suspensions, rank reversions, and ...

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Manipulation is a behavior that has been studied extensively in social psychology since the 60s. It has been observed in a wide range of human relationships, from the family to economics and marketing ...

A billboard tries to sell you something. So does a used car salesman. But no matter how smooth the pitch, you’re quite aware of the profit motive, and you can walk away at any time. What if that pitch ...

Update (3/27/26): This piece has been updated with additional examples. Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 ...