The Twenty-Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest – or IOCCC for short – is back again with the results of the 2025 competition. This year, one of the entrants has a unique new trick up their ...

During the World Cup, you can easily identify some countries based on their three-letter codes. Others, not so much. Here's a look at how they work.

Austria appear as "AUT" rather than "AUS" on FIFA graphics and World Cup standings. Here's why the country's official ...

Anthropic’s AI coding agent silently encoded proxy hostnames and Chinese timezone data into invisible Unicode characters ...

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has released the ISC Computer Science (Subject Code - 868) ...

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Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said it was coming, but it still feels like a milestone: More than 80% of the code merged into ...

[Kert Gartner]’s ASCII Aquarium turns a cheap yellow display (CYD) into a tiny simulated aquarium, complete with ASCII sea creatures each with their own behaviors. There’s all kinds of options and ...

A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the ...

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...

The late political scientist James C. Scott endorsed what he called “anarchist calisthenics”—the regular practice of small acts of lawbreaking and disobedience. Jaywalk at an empty intersection. Have ...

VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image The transition from AI as a chatbot to AI as a workforce is no longer a theoretical projection; it has become the primary design philosophy for the ...