Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...

Scientists have created the smallest QR code in the world, measuring just 3.07 × 10⁻⁹ square inches (1.98 square micrometers). It can preserve data for thousands of years and it's so small that you ...

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan ...

Just how small can a QR code be? Small enough that it can only be recognized with an electron microscope. A research team at TU Wien, working together with the data storage technology company Cerabyte ...

So, you’re looking to learn Python, huh? It’s a pretty popular language, and for good reason. It’s used for all sorts of things, from making websites to crunching numbers. Finding the right book can ...

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know ...

The award winning OpenMC software package is helping researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop next generation nuclear and fusion reactors with ...

On February 2nd, 2025, computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy made a flippant tweet that launched a new phrase into the internet’s collective consciousness. He posted that he’d ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...