A sampling of the stories NPR staff believe made some of the deepest ripples this year — reminders of what rigorous, compassionate journalism can do, and why the work remains as urgent as ever.

Truck driver training schools don’t even have to assert that they trained the driver, rode with him, tested him on specific ...

In 2026, a new frontier of attacks will be data poisoning: invisibly corrupting the copious amounts of data used to train ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require ...

MCP is the Model Context Protocol, introduced by Anthropic last year to act as the “USB-C” interface for connecting AI ...

Disk Cleanup is another utility that is accessible regardless of your Windows version. The easiest way to open it is to search for "Disk Cleanup" in the search bar and bring up the window.

In India, a hidden data trove reveals how the censorship regime has now evolved from simply cutting minor scenes to ...

If you’ve lost important files on your PC due to accidental deletion or a corrupted drive, there are easy ways to get them ...

Google's support page has confirmed the closure, of which some users were initially notified via email. Scans for new dark web data breaches will stop on Jan. 15, 2026, and by Feb.16, 2026, the report ...

The Vanderbilt study describes loyalty programs as "ground zero" for the e-commerce industry's shift toward surveillance pricing, where individualized data is used to charge each consumer the maximum ...

Duplicates of crystal structures are flooding databases, implicating repositories hosting organic, inorganic, and ...

Three years later, Prashanth says Stack Overflow is now very comfortable primarily as an enterprise SaaS business, which provides AI-based solutions that are tailored to different companies’ internal ...