MIT Technology Review

A quantum leap for programming

And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...
HUB

Researchers watched students' brains as they learned to program

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...
EurekAlert!

Researchers watched students’ brains as they learned to program

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the AI revolution but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns Hopkins University ...
The Daily Dot

“They’re programming you”: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey says social media algorithms aren’t serving you—they’re controlling you

Footage of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey warning social media users about what they become while scrolling resurfaced this week. His speech took place at the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024, where he ...
9to5google

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think scores competitive coding gold in ‘profound leap’ for abstract problem-solving

After a mathematics win in July, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has now earned a gold-medal level performance in competitive coding. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is the “oldest, ...
VentureBeat

Google and OpenAI’s coding wins at university competition show enterprise AI tools can take on unsolved algorithmic challenges

OpenAI and Google DeepMind demonstrated that their foundation models could outperform human coders — and win — showing that large language models (LLMs) can solve complex, previously unsolved ...
Wired

OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI

The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids. The company has ...
GamesRadar+

Rejected Nintendo applicant says the company doesn't need to filter out candidates by education because the very first test is so brutal almost no one gets through

The Legend of Zelda The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ditched the series' overworld theme because Koji Kondo thought it'd "get boring" Action RPGs FromSoftware head Hidetaka Miyazaki says games ...
TMCnet

Entrust nShield HSMs Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms Achieve Validation from the NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program

As the cybersecurity landscape rapidly evolves, Entrust today announced a landmark achievement: The Entrust nShield Hardware Security Module's (HSMs) implementation of three NIST standardized ...
USA Today

DHS ends controversial and 'politicized' Quiet Skies air passenger surveillance program

WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security is ending its controversial Quiet Skies surveillance program for airline travelers, saying June 5 that since its existence, it has "failed to stop a ...
The New York Times

In the Age of the Algorithm, Roots Music Is Rising

Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre. Charley Crockett, a rising star in the roots-music field, performing in Nashville, Ind., in May.Credit...Kristine ...