The infamous GlassWorm malware has infected dozens more Open VSX software packages, according to new research.

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 ...

Garbage in, garbage out” applies just as much to AI-assisted vibe coding as it does to old-fashioned software development, as I learned the hard way.

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

Vibe coding refers to the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to write computer code. In high school, ...

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

Running a business these days means juggling a lot of different software. You’ve got your sales tools, your finance programs, your marketing platforms – the list goes on. It can feel like each one is ...

Ownership is a key aspect of large-scale software development. We examine the relationship between different ownership measures and software failures in two large software projects: Windows Vista and ...

Vibe coding is a natural language-driven, AI-assisted way to build software. Instead of writing every line of code by hand, you describe what you want via natural language prompts to an agentic AI ...

Mr. Ford is an essayist and a technologist. On weekday evenings, heading home on the subway from Union Square in New York City, I log into an A.I. tool from my phone and write a prompt. “Look at the ...

FlexiDot is a cross-platform dotplot suite generating high quality self, pairwise and all-against-all visualizations of transposons and other discrete sequences. To improve dotplot suitability for ...