As developers lean on Copilot and GhostWriter, experts warn of insecure defaults, hallucinated dependencies, and attacks that ...

Vibe coding no longer means autocomplete on steroids. It now spans one-prompt app builders, deep-context agents, and local OSS copilots. These tools promise speed, and they deliver.

This Golay code implementation is capable of correcting three-bit errors in each 24-bit block, with 12 bits available for payload. That’s what the numbers in those brackets mean.

Much has been written about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from data centers. Current estimates place data centers at consuming nearly 3% of the world’s total electricity – on par ...

Most data journalists would agree that coding has become a core component of good data journalism. But disagreement persists over which programming language is best. Is it R or Python?

A study by Cohere shows that pre-training LLMs on code improves their abilities in non-coding tasks, including world knowledge and reasoning.

There’s been a big push in recent years to get students coding. Before that, the big skill was learning to use word processing software. And before that, typing. Now there’s a movement to bring the ...

While there is high demand for coding skills today, artificial intelligence will increasingly take over routine coding jobs as it grows in sophistication. The longer term and larger employment and ...

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