Complete text of carbonised Herculaneum scroll unlocked for first time

By Crispian Balmer ROME, June 25 (Reuters) - Researchers using artificial intelligence and advanced imaging said on Thursday ...

AI Humanizers Promise More ‘Human’ Writing—But Authenticity Is Hard To Capture

AI humanizers promise to make AI-generated text sound more natural. Learn how they work, why they're popular, and whether ...

Short-form science: University of Washington researchers launch PaperTok to combat AI slop

A University of Washington team is helping scientists tell their own stories with a free tool that converts dense, ...
New Scientist

Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Have Deciphered the Surviving Fragments of a 2,000-Year-Old Philosophical Treatise Frozen in Time by Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption

The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...
Scientific American

Ancient Roman scrolls destroyed by Mount Vesuvius digitally unrolled in full for first time

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...
Tech Times

Google’s DiffusionGemma Generates Text 4x Faster: Diffusion Replaces Token-by-Token Output

Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma on June 10, 2026, an experimental open-weights model that writes text using discrete diffusion rather than the token-by-token method behind GPT-style systems ...
Forbes

7 Organizational Structure Types (With Examples)

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...
Investopedia

Understanding Red Herring Prospectus: Definition, Benefits, and Example

Marshall Hargrave is a stock analyst and writer with 10+ years of experience covering stocks and markets, as well as analyzing and valuing companies. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and ...
The New York Times

4 Easy Ways to Make Sure No One Can Read Your Text Messages

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Max Eddy Max Eddy is a writer who has covered privacy and security — including ...