The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents. The ...

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It should be a tough time to be a software engineer: Coding is a favorite early artificial-intelligence use case and layoffs are spreading through the tech industry. But job postings in the ...

Nicola Jones is a freelance writer in Pemberton, Canada. Last year, climate researcher Zeke Hausfather was playing around with climate-data visualizations, trying to find new and shocking ways to show ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape ...

When I left the classroom 12 years ago, computer science was still treated like a niche pursuit, something for the few. Today, it’s the engine of change across every sector. In K–12 education, it is ...

The system represents an improvement in autonomous or agentic capability. GPT-5.5 “represents a step toward AI systems that can complete complex, multistep tasks on a computer without human guidance,” ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Cubs manager Craig Counsell criticized MLB’s roster exception for Shohei Ohtani, calling the rule “bizarre.” ...