Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

The president of the arts center cited the TV show “So You Think You Can Dance” as the type of programming that could be more broadly appealing to audiences. By Julia Jacobs The John F. Kennedy Center ...

During a budget hearing held by the Senate Appropriations Committee several weeks ago, Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) pressed HHS Secretary RFK Jr. on his department eliminating the CDC's Childhood Lead ...

Today Microsoft is incorporating GPT-5, OpenAI’s best AI system to date, into a wide variety of its products, to bring new reasoning capabilities and improvements to coding and chat across its ...

Automated security reviews in Claude Code help ensure code safety. Spot and fix vulnerabilities before your code reaches production. Run the /security-review command in the terminal or via GitHub ...

A group of Chinese scientists has created powerful new tools that allow them to edit large chunks of DNA with incredible accuracy—and without leaving any trace. Using a mix of advanced protein design, ...

Meta told employees that it is going to allow some coding job candidates to use an AI assistant during the interview process, according to internal Meta communications seen by 404 Media. The company ...

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...

Alibaba slashed AI coding model prices to one-fifth of global rivals, aiming to gain long-term developer loyalty and market share. Despite YTD gains of 43%, Alibaba stock dipped as aggressive AI ...

A while back, my ZDNET colleague David Gewirtz worried that someday AI coding agents could destroy open-source software. That day has come. A "="" ai="" coding="" agent"="">. Also: Coding with AI? My ...

What if the very tools designed to make software development faster and smarter could also render developers obsolete? It’s a question stirring heated debates across the tech world as AI-powered ...