Interest in attaining at least a bare-bones understanding in computer science — and particularly AI-enhanced coding — has ...

Typst is an easy and powerful markup-based language for creating technical documentation and books – and a compelling ...

It’s no wonder students are walking away from computer science: We told them the wrong story. Here’s the right one.

Insurance company Unum, which provides cover for more than 45 million employees in the US, the UK and Poland, relies on ageing mainframe computers running Cobol code for many of its key operations.

This is the introduction to Drum Tower, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our writers explain what the world makes of China—and what China makes of the world. GLM 5.2 marks the first time ...

The already-small number of colleges with full-fledged, student-enforced honor codes is dwindling. After a three-year pilot of proctored exams, Stanford University student, faculty and administrative ...

Check out Python’s powerful new linters and profiling tools, and learn how virtual environments can save you time and trouble. Meta’s long-awaited Pyrefly linter is out in a 1.0 version, and the ...

A group of hungry visitors arrives at a village and asks for food. When the villagers refuse to share what they have, the visitors fill a pot of water and throw in several stones and talk up a tasty ...

Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism. Earlier this year, the company released an 84-page document titled Claude’s “constitution ...

The rise of AI has been changing the focus of Code.org for the past two years. On Tuesday, the Seattle-based computer science education platform acknowledged the shift and rebranded as CodeAI. “In the ...

Last month, 40 policy and labor organizations took their fight for a federal framework to protect workers from AI disruptions to Capitol Hill. Led by the Economic Policy Institute, the AFL-CIO Tech ...

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 ...