Piano teacher's students sweep national competitions after learning the "Payam Method"

Payam Khastkhodaei, the son of Iranian immigrants, says he's developed a new method of teaching that has students loving ...
ZDNet

OpenAI's Codex Desktop can run your computer now - and has its own browser

Codex Desktop expands from coding into full productivity workflows. Automation can generate images, charts, and workflow outputs. The tool is still aimed at developers despite the broader productivity ...
New Scientist

Computer finds flaw in major physics paper for first time

A computer language created to spot errors in mathematical theorems has uncovered a fundamental error in a widely cited physics paper for the first time. The ...
InfoQ

Google Researchers Propose Bayesian Teaching Method for Large Language Models

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
New Scientist

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...
today.ucsd

A New Method to Steer AI Output Uncovers Vulnerabilities and Potential Improvements

Researchers went under the hood of large language models to identify and influence specific concepts They were able to identify hallucinations and improve LLM outputs They uncovered vulnerabilities, ...
InfoWorld

Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...
KUTV

Rare computer software language found hidden in University of Utah closet

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — What began as a forgotten tape in a storage room at the University of Utah has now become a restored piece of digital history. Experts at the Computer History Museum in ...
techtimes

Implantable Brain–Computer Interface Breakthrough: INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI Achieves High-Accuracy, Generalizable Decoding of Chinese Language from Neural Signals

Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...
Live Science

Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969

Who: Graduate student Charley Kline to computer engineer Bill Duvall Late one evening, UCLA graduate student Charley Kline sat in front of a refrigerator-sized computer and sent the message "lo" to a ...
InfoWorld

C, C++, Java vie for second place in language popularity

While Python continues to be the runaway leader in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, C, C++, and Java are engaged in a fierce battle for second place. Currently in fifth place, ...