JavaScript Runs the World—Maybe Even Literally

Lex Fridman has done many long interviews on his popular podcast. Even so, the episode with the legendary programmer John Carmack has an unhinged director’s-cut feel to it. Over five hours, Carmack dishes on everything from vector operations to Doom. But it’s something Fridman says, offhand, that really justifies the extended run time: “I think … Read more

Google’s Deal With Stack Overflow Is the Latest Proof That AI Giants Will Pay for Data

Last year Stack Overflow became one of the first websites to announce it would charge AI giants for access to content used to train chatbots. Now the popular Q&A service for coders has signed up its first customer—Google—in what CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar says is the start of a “meaningful” new stream of revenue. The deal … Read more

Gemini Advanced failed these simple coding tests that ChatGPT aced. Here’s what it got wrong

shapecharge/Getty Images To the great sadness of Shakespeare punsters everywhere, Google has renamed Bard to Gemini. Google has also come out with a more capable, more advanced, more expensive version of Gemini called Gemini Advanced. Gemini and Gemini Advanced are roughly analogous to ChatGPT’s base model and the ChatGPT Plus service offered for an additional … Read more

Learn to Code With These Five Online Coding Courses for Beginners

The Programming Foundations with Javascript, HTML and CSS course, offered through Duke University, explores skills like HTML, JavaScript, Java programming and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You’ll learn how to write programs, solve complex problems, design algorithms and test and debug your programs. The programming foundations course is part of the five-course Java Programming and Software … Read more

AI Tools Like GitHub Copilot Are Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next

Many people—like, say, journalists—are understandably antsy about what generative artificial intelligence might mean for the future of their profession. It doesn’t help that expert prognostications on the matter offer a confusing cocktail of wide-eyed excitement, trenchant skepticism, and dystopian despair. Some workers are already living in one potential version of the generative AI future, though: … Read more

India’s Kombai raises $4.5M to simplify UI coding with AI

Kombai, a startup that goals to assist front-end builders simply convert UI designs to code utilizing AI, has emerged from stealth and introduced a $4.5 million in a seed funding spherical led by Stellaris Enterprise Companions and Basis Capital. In response to fast {hardware} developments, software program evolution has underscored a urgent want for superior … Read more

Ohio Prisons Ban Coding Books However Enable Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

Incarcerated folks in Ohio have a neater time getting their fingers on the e book that based Nazism than laptop coding literature resulting from a sequence of weird, unequally enforced insurance policies limiting entry to sure studying supplies. Nonprofits and authors talking with The Marshall Mission say the state’s complicated and overly broad screening course … Read more