The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

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You have one more year to use it.

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science ...

Making chips for training AI models made it the world’s biggest company, but demand for inference is growing far faster.

Let agents handle data management and operational complexity. ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the ...

Researchers show AI can learn a rare programming language by correcting its own errors, improving its coding success from 39% to 96%.

For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it less, and it ...

For years, the reality of overworked, understaffed legal teams kept them operating at a different tempo than the rest of the ...

At QCon London 2026, Yinka Omole, Lead Software Engineer at Personio, presented a session exploring a recurring dilemma engineers face, whether to spend time mastering the newest technologies and ...

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