Some cybersecurity researchers say it’s too early to worry about AI-orchestrated cyberattacks. Others say it could already be happening.

OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark promises ultra-fast, conversational AI coding, if you can tolerate a few trade-offs.

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Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Java developers are simultaneously abandoning Oracle’s distribution to cut costs while expanding their use of the language to ...

Vladimir Zakharov explains how DataFrames serve as a vital tool for data-oriented programming in the Java ecosystem. By ...

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 arrives in Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot, bringing advanced reasoning, agentic coding, and ...

According to God of Prompt (@godofprompt), AI-powered code refactoring tools are revolutionizing software development by automating the process of improving code performance, readability, and ...

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade, replacing it with Rust. “My goal is to eliminate every line of C ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

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