You can’t be sure where that AI-generated code came from or what malware it might contain. These 4 steps help mitigate vibe-coding risk.

Scratch is a visual programming language and online community designed primarily for children to create interactive stories, ...

Choosing between Computer Science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) can be confusing because both fields deal with computers. However, the work involved in each is very different. One focuses on ...

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 ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...

The Computer Guy of Chicago strikes when you least expect. Sitting in a coffeehouse. Reading your phone on the train. Working out. Waiting for food. Walking down the street. When the Computer Guy ...

With Apple’s 50th anniversary fast approaching, the Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history. Here are the details. The ...

Step-by-step assembly of a custom DIY gaming PC, showcasing essential components and process for building a personalized, high-performance computer from scratch. Pixabay, Lixxe Building a computer ...

Study shows short-term increase in student trust for generative AI programming tools; long-term trust still unclear. Researchers weigh in on what this means for computer science educators. How much do ...

Started as an idea which kept evolving into a better and more advanced arithmetic computing machine which then eventually evolved into a machine that can execute series of instructions stored in the ...

The whiteboard in Professor Mark Stehlik’s office at Carnegie Mellon University still has the details of what turned into a computer science program for high school students. Stehlik and colleague ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...