The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

OpenAI alum Andrej Karpathy wrote on X that his failure to fully claim the 10x boost of new tools felt like a "skill issue." ...

AI coding agents are highly vulnerable to zero-click attacks hidden in simple prompts on websites and repositories, a ...

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

After asking for help on social media, Bernardo Quintero has managed to locate the creator of the software that, besides infecting the university’s computers in the 1990s, sparked his passion for cybe ...

Software built into the cameras on iPhones and Android phones makes quick work of decoding QR codes. How do you do that on a laptop or desktop computer? I have a friend who calls me occasionally to ...

I have a friend who calls me occasionally to come help him with various little things having to do with the technology at his house. This week, one of his requests was to learn more about QR codes and ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

Recent years have seen a huge shift to online services. By necessity, remote jobs have skyrocketed, and the tech industry has ballooned. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, software developer ...

Qiang Tang receives funding from Google via Digital Future Initiative to support the research on this project. Moti Yung works for Google as a distinguished research scientist. Yanan Li is supported ...

Google has decided not to fix a new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini that could be used to trick the AI assistant into providing users with fake information, alter the model’s behavior, and silently ...