In the days prior to the internet, enthusiastic young hackers relied on floppy disks to trade their innovative programs. Bulletin board systems emerged as the first virtual communities, enabling ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

In an Instagram video that has nearly 30 million views, a couple claims to save hundreds of dollars simply by booking a flight on a library computer. The library computer, according to the post, is ...

Python stays far ahead after another dip; C holds second, Java retakes third from C++, and R rises to eighth as SQL slips, with Delphi steady in tenth. May’s TIOBE Index has one of those charts that ...

You’ve heard of Instagram Reels — now get ready for Netflix Clips. Netflix is redesigning its mobile app and introducing Clips, a vertical video feed intended to help users discover new content by ...

A Texas judge was caught on camera tearing into an IT worker who came to help him with a simple computer glitch inside his own courtroom. A viral video shows Harris County Judge Nathan Milliron losing ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

Anthropic’s Claude is launching a wild new tool that lets you ask AI on your phone to remotely control your computer to execute tasks. A new feature in Claude Cowork and Claude Code will allow the AI ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

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