Checked the source code of our front page lately? We didn’t think to until we got a tip. Dante’s Inferno ASCII art is buried with in it – along with one of six clues to unlock some kind of download.

ASCII—aka the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, aka the numeric codes that represent those little shapes on your keyboard—turns fifty this year. And while it’s since been surpassed ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns out that chat-based large language models such as GPT-4 get so distracted ...