David S. Reynolds' book examines the twin legacies of the Mayflower, which carried the Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620, and the White Lion, which brought the first enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619.

Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

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A viral report claims that chatbot lying and scheming has increased exponentially; the problem is that the report’s language is doing the heavy lifting instead of its data, opines Satyen K. Bordoloi ...

Code that works perfectly locally (on macOS) goes silent the moment it is deployed to a production Docker container. This is a common sight in solo development. This time, I fell into this classic ...

I ditched my terminal for Claude's built-in code executor, and I'm not going back.

What is really worth your attention in the busy, buzzy world of AI? Our reporters and editors have spent years thinking about this question, charting AI’s progress and mapping out what’s next. Now, ...

If Elon Musk gets his way, space will soon look very different. Through his ownership of SpaceX, the world’s richest man already operates most of the roughly 14,000 active satellites that are orbiting ...

Enjoys fixing messy problems with clean code, good questions and the occasional AI assist. We’ve spent the last two years worrying about AI hallucinating bugs or stealing our jobs. We didn't spend ...

Many are longing for oblivion these days, and the cleansing fire of any sort of apocalypse presumably sounds great, including one brought on by malevolent forms of machine intelligence. This sort of ...

What started as a routine pull request on a popular Python project turned into something closer to an AI-fueled grudge post. After a volunteer reviewer shut down an automated code submission, the bot ...

Last Thursday, matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh found himself in a peculiar situation. The day before, he had closed a pull request (PR) in the matplotlib project on the GitHub code repository. A ...