Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...

AI startup Anthropic's claim of automating COBOL modernization sent IBM's stock plummeting, wiping billions off its market value. The decades-old language, still powering critical systems, faces a ...

Fifty-four seconds. That’s how long it took Raphael Wimmer to write up an experiment that he did not actually perform, using a new artificial-intelligence tool called Prism, released by OpenAI last ...

While it's no replacement for either computer, the new device is a powerful alternative for addressing some very practical challenges. Reading time 3 minutes In a world of ever-improving computing ...

Distributed systems of servers now power almost everything we do online, from file sharing to video streaming to shopping.

A young tech entrepreneur launched the tool Einstein this week, marketing it as a way to free students from busywork—and triggering robust faculty debate. Einstein’s creator says that was the whole ...

Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...

Seattle’s Pacific Science Center is selling part of its property to the owners of the Space Needle. The private nonprofit — which operates the museum that sits on land adjacent to but separate from ...

A Bitcoin baron wants to build a libertarian paradise on the island of Nevis. Democracy is getting in the way.

You don’t always know when you’ve found something special until you do. Out of everything this year brought, this discovery stood above the rest. It wasn’t planned, staged, or expected. Just the kind ...

A growing number of scientists and philosophers are openly questioning whether reality itself is real. Known as the simulation hypothesis, the idea suggests the universe could be an advanced ...