Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.

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An old book about an even older operating system.

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Why settle for a static Linux Mint desktop when you can jazz it up with this Conky daily quote generator desklet?

AI startup Anthropic's claim of automating COBOL modernization sent IBM's stock plummeting, wiping billions off its market value. The decades-old language, still powering critical systems, faces a ...

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AT&T's chief data officer shares how rearchitecting around small language models and multi-agent stacks cut AI costs by 90% at 8 billion tokens a day.

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Researchers at a Melbourne start-up have taught their “biological computer” made from living human brain cells to play Doom.

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