Technical debt is a common and challenging issue in the software development industry, as technologies and programming languages evolve and become outdated over time. It is important for companies to actively manage and address technical debt to avoid the negative consequences it can have on their p.. read more  

Thirty years ago, CERN made a decision to relinquish all intellectual property rights to the World Wide Web, allowing it to enter the public domain and be freely accessible to everyone. This decision, driven by optimism and ambition, transformed the trajectory of the web and enabled unparalleled ope.. read more  

Vint Cerf, the Internet architect and recipient of the 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor, shares career advice for engineers. He emphasizes the importance of seeking help from those who are smarter, being humble and open to possibilities, listening to others' insights, maintaining good relationships, and ack.. read more  

A Telegram user has built two new features for a chat group. The first feature, called "/resume," provided a summary of the conversation to help catch up on missed messages. The second feature, called "/fake @username <insert question>," allowed users to impersonate their friends in the chat and ask.. read more  

GPT and other large language models can produce huge volumes of code quickly, allowing for faster prototyping and iterative development. However, this can result in a larger amount of messy code that needs to be maintained... read more  

Ethernet, developed by Xerox, was a revolutionary approach to local area networks that used a common bus network system. The initial Ethernet specification allowed for data transfer rates of up to 10 Mbps, and subsequent refinements in Ethernet technology have allowed for even faster data rates, suc.. read more  

Microsoft and OpenAI were sued on Wednesday by sixteen pseudonymous individuals who claimed that the companies' AI product, ChatGPT, collected and disclosed personal information without proper notice or consent, allegedly scraping billions of words from the internet that included personal informatio.. read more  

Google has deprecated support for the Dialer and Messaging apps in AOSP, meaning brands will have to use their own apps or Google's latest phone and messaging apps, which could negatively impact the custom ROM community. This change may result in upstart mobile brands needing to license Google's new.. read more  

Software industry needs to embrace the narrative of being an industry of creatives and talents, and move away from the current playbook that produces miserable outcomes. Hiring fewer people and being selective, breaking away from conventional practices like cloud hosting, and simplifying software de.. read more  

Programming languages have not improved significantly over the years, with even popular ones like Java and Rust only offering minor improvements. However, there are languages like Dafny that can statically check critical properties of programs, going beyond what mainstream languages can do... read more