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Security issues resulting from the rapid advancement of AI-generated code remain unsolved and not fully understood.

Beyond just getting more done, automation provides teams with powerful ways to reduce risk across various workflows and processes.

For most people, you turn on your computer, and it starts the operating system. However, the reality is much more complex as [Thasso] discovered. Even modern x86 chips start in 16-bit real mode and…

Why do we keep building visual programming environments? Why do we never use them? What should we do instead?

Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.

Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to get into the operating system and pull ...

If you are of a certain vintage, this image is burned indelibly somewhere in your posterior parietal complex: Oh, my old friend. How it’s been a long time. Cultural Significance For the uninitiated, what are we looking at? Could it be the Moiré Error from Doom? Well, no. You are looking at (part of) the boot up screen for the X Window System, specifically the pattern it uses as the background of the root window.

It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong

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This article outlines exactly how autonomous agents transform the process of adding, configuring, and managing API endpoints.

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Julian Chokkattu writing for Wired: Nothing’s CMF Devices Prove Yet Again Cheap Doesn't Have to Mean Boring What's most remarkable about these devices is the price. I have tested cheap and flagship smartphones for nearly a decade, and after setting up the CMF Phone 1, I was pretty surprised

“Be even more suspicious […] of all those who employ the term ‘we’ or ‘us’ without your permission. This is another form of surreptitious conscription, designed to suggest that ‘we’ are all agreed on ‘our’ interests and identity. […] Always ask who this ‘we’ is” – Christopher Hitchens in Letters to a Young Contrarian. It is so easy to write “Europe must invest more in AI”, but it is a red flag that reveals sloppy thinking on two levels.

Are you using AI as a crutch?

How to convert strings and quoted identifiers in MySQL queries into their Postgres equivalents

Skribr is a tool to help you write better task descriptions.

Kyle (Aphyr) is the creator of Jepsen

Konrad Zuse was a pioneer in the creation of computing technology, a man whose destiny seemed to obstruct progress but couldn't prevent him from creating the first high-level programming language, one of the first computers, and the first book on digital physics.

Before I read The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya, I only knew about John von Neumann in two contexts: that computers use the von Neumann architecture, and that he appeared in a story ab…

Iteration is a fundamental concept in computer programming and software development. It refers to the process of repeating a set of instructions or a block of

Posted on Friday 5 Jul 2024. 372 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.