A 13-year-old and his teen sister picked up vibe coding and ended up competing together in a 24-hour hackathon with their dad.

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Thieves are exploiting keyless entry systems or reprogramming vehicles after break-ins, police in Southern California cities ...

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Have an app you've always wanted to build? A humdrum task to automate? AI tools make it easier than ever, but they can be as ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...