Hansson remains hopeful about AI, but compared its current output to "a flickering light bulb." Given his view, Hansson said he marvels at just how much of the US economy is bet on AI advancing. Tech ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

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Ada, a 45-year-old programming language, might just solve the very problems developers have been grappling with for years. I realise that for many developers – particularly those who entered the ...

For centuries, this strange language has baffled historians and linguists alike. Its structure seemed unlike anything else spoken or written on Earth. Now, breakthroughs in research are finally ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Sixty malicious Ruby gems containing credential-stealing code have been downloaded over 275,000 times since March 2023, targeting developer accounts. The malicious Ruby gems were discovered by Socket, ...

For two years now, a Korean threat actor has been publishing malicious open source software (OSS) packages designed to steal credentials from spam marketers. Are you tired of shady, throwaway online ...

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What if building an app was as simple as having a conversation? Imagine describing your dream project—“a task manager with reminders and a sleek interface”—and watching it come to life in minutes, no ...

Jensen Huang is the CEO of $3.48 trillion AI chipmaker Nvidia. At London Tech Week on Monday, Huang said that AI enables anyone to write code, simply by prompting a chatbot to do it for them. The ...