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Claude Code generates computer code when people type prompts, so those with no coding experience can create their own programs and apps. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco Claude Code, an ...

Abstract: In the realm of AI-enhanced programming education, there is growing interest in using such tools to help students understand good coding principles. This study investigates the impact of ...

Anthropic has launched a beta integration that connects its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent directly into Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks without leaving the ...

Big quote: Sundar Pichai now talks about vibe coding in the same breath as blogging and YouTube – not as a metaphor for hype but as evidence that software creation is slipping further out of engineers ...

[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Marcelo Calbucci, a longtime Seattle tech and startup community leader.] This month, I ran a survey with early-stage founders from Seattle-based Foundations about ...

Electronic Arts is stepping into a new world of game development as it unveiled its latest partnership with Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion. The company revealed that this new ...

TIOBE Programming Index News September 2025: Perl Regains the Spotlight Your email has been sent Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for ...

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Abstract: Write-once-read-many-times (WORM) memory, as a key nonvolatile memory technology, offers significant advantages for permanent and low-cost storage applications. However, it currently ...

Generative artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC today introduced the ability for Claude Code to automate software security reviews, identifying and fixing potential vulnerabilities and ...

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive ...