Python 3.15's UTF-8 default reduces environment-dependent behavior when no encoding is specified. We look at what it means ...

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...

How OpenAI’s Core Experimentation team uses Codex to remove unused code, clean up stale experiments, and improve CI.

Runtime Verification CEO Everett Hildenbrandt and UIUC professor Grigore Roșu argue that formal verification — writing a mathematical specification ...

Everything is being decompiled. GoldenEye, Halo, Photoshop, even bank mainframes: AI is prying open old code at record speed. The secret isn't just AI, it's an ...

NIH researchers have released BRACE, an open-source pure-Python software framework that lets clinical researchers rapidly ...

When a calculation result is off by one yen, simply adding round at the end does not always solve the problem. The result ...

Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), ...

Harness has acquired select assets from Augment Code, including the Cosmos software factory, the Auggie CLI, the Code Context Engine, and related technology, with the team behind those products ...

Keysight Technologies, Inc. has added agentic AI capabilities to its software to help engineers automate design tasks.

Keysight is bringing agentic AI to its software, enabling engineers to direct AI agents to automate complex design tasks.

Database expert runs Doom in SQL again — full-featured SQLDoom is the sequel to embryonic DoomQL ...