Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Justin Helman didn’t get his dream acceptance from the University of Florida. But that isn’t stopping him from pursuing the classic college experience there. The recent high-school graduate from Park ...

Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to ...

Clicking a captcha "I am not a robot" box and identifying images to prove it is second nature for many internet users. Now, cybercriminals are exploiting people's comfort with the routine to scam them ...

You hear about it everywhere, from LinkedIn posts to keynote speakers to job listings: Learning to use AI is the way to get ahead in your job and help future-proof your career. But you may not know ...

Food has increasingly become a deliberate tool of war. Whether in besieged farming communities in Sudan or in the destruction of grain siloes in Ukraine, it is targeted, strategic, and rarely punished ...

An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A metro Atlanta prosecutor apologized to the state’s highest court for using artificial intelligence to write a legal brief citing cases that didn’t exist. Clayton County ...

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

Six Democratic lawmakers are pressing the nation's top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercial VPN services risk being treated as foreigners under United States ...

“Lord of the Rings” superfan Stephen Colbert was tapped to write the latest installment of the wildly popular movie series, studio officials said Wednesday, seizing on the TV personality's unexpected ...

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