All 5 fundamental units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases—the molecular "letters" of life—have been detected in samples from the ...
Việt Báo

Meta disables 150,000 fraudulent accounts from Southeast Asia.

Meta has just disabled 150,000 accounts linked to scam centers in Southeast Asia and launched several new warning tools on ...
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Demystifying API Example Code: A Practical Guide for Developers

So, you’ve got to work with an API, and the documentation looks like a foreign language textbook written by a robot? Yeah, I’ve been there. It’s like trying to assemble flat-pack furniture with ...
Microsoft

Automating String Processing in Spreadsheets using Input-Output Examples

The story of Flash Fill and (how it shaped) me On the occasion of receiving the most influential test-of-time paper award for his POPL 2011 paper (which describes the technology behind the popular ...
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AI Code Snippet Techniques: Practical Examples from Jeff Dean for Developers

According to Jeff Dean on Twitter, sharing specific small snippets of code can effectively demonstrate AI techniques, providing developers with practical and actionable examples to accelerate AI ...
Microsoft

Language-to-Code Translation with a Single Labeled Example

Tools for translating natural language into code promise natural, open-ended interaction with databases, web APIs, and other software systems. However, this promise is complicated by the diversity and ...
TechCrunch

WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use

WordPress’s experimental AI development tool, Telex, has already been put to real-world use, only months after its September debut. At the company’s annual “State of the Word” event on Tuesday in San ...
VentureBeat

Amazon's new AI can code for days without human help. What does that mean for software engineers?

Amazon Web Services has announced a new class of AI systems," frontier agents," that can work autonomously for hours, even days, without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious ...
IEEE

Towards Generating Maintainable and Comprehensible API Code Examples

Abstract: One of the most effective resources for learning application programming interfaces (APIs) is code examples. The shortage of such examples can pose a significant learning obstacle for API ...
Quanta Magazine

The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.

The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side. There should ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers are exploiting critical RCE flaw in Wing FTP Server

Hackers have started to exploit a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Wing FTP Server just one day after technical details on the flaw became public. The observed attack ran multiple ...