Microsoft's SkillOpt brings deep-learning discipline to AI agent skills, replacing manual prompt tweaking with mathematically ...

The rise of vibe coding can further amplify these problems as more operational context, architectural decisions, and business knowledge become scattered across prompts, conversations, generated code, ...

Declarative programming changed this. You describe what you want, not how to do it. SQL is a perfect example. You ask for data. You do not write the loops or manage the memory. The system handles the ...

Abstract: The software fault-tree analysis technique is explained. It is then extended to allow its use on a more complex language involving such features as concurrency and exception handling. Ada is ...

AI writing is everywhere these days. I see it in student papers, in some of their emails, in Instagram posts from local restaurants, in newsletters I quickly unsubscribe to, and at the risk of ...

By expressing form behavior in terms of state and derivation rather than orchestration and reaction, Angular Signal Forms ...

Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and this week we’ve got something even more arcane: the results of the 29th ...

In the case of “Wake Up!”, it only needs 16 bytes to produce a Matrix-inspired visualization with an accompanying soundtrack. The program is what’s called an “intro”—a short, size-restricted program ...

A new SCOTUS decision raises new doubts about whether a decision against a major abortion provider had any basis in law.

AI coding benchmark MirrorCode published its full results June 26, showing Claude Opus 4.7 autonomously rebuilt a 60,000-line interpreter and scored 56% overall — completing tasks that take human ...

Law firms including Orrick, Taft, Brownstein and Littler have all incorporated an AI-powered deposition simulator for ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...