AI is rewriting the hiring playbook for coders

Software engineers need more than coding skills to get hired today. Interviews now test judgment, AI skills, and problem ...
IEEE

An Efficient Ordered Likelihood Decoder for Rate-Compatible Short LDPC codes

Abstract: This paper proposes a concatenated multi-belief ordered likelihood decoding (MB-OLD) algorithm for rate-compatible (RC) short low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, where the output ...
Tech Times

Claude Code Hid Proxy Fingerprints in System Prompts: Anthropic Promises Fix

Anthropic’s AI coding agent silently encoded proxy hostnames and Chinese timezone data into invisible Unicode characters ...
The Verge

Watch New Things’ Joanna Stern interview Ford CEO Jim Farley on Decoder.

So today, we’re featuring a really great interview conducted last fall by my very good friend Joanna Stern, now the founder and CEO of New Things, and Ford CEO Jim Farley. Watch it here, or read the ...
the-decoder

Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception

A Washington Post investigation reveals that most major AI chatbots still lean left on political issues, even when they are explicitly marketed as conservative alternatives. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and ...
IEEE

Adaptive Quantized Iterative Learning Control Using Encoding-Decoding Strategy

Abstract: This study investigates the utilization of a dynamic encoding-decoding mechanism for transferred signals to explore adaptive quantized iterative learning ...
Eurogamer

Steam Machine: the big tech questions answered

The Steam Machine is buyable at last! And it sure costs a pretty penny, as is probably to be expected here in the year of our lord and/or dark lord 2026. We've written a full user-focused review of ...