Think you're paying your utility bill? Better make sure. A new QR code trick and other scams have already cost California customers $211,000 this year

PG&E says households are under financial strain and bills are rising, making a scammer who calls out of the blue about an ...
Tech Times

Karpathy CLAUDE.md Grows to Ten Rules: New Self-Check Protocol for AI Coding Loops

Karpathy CLAUDE.md ten rules: a document attributed to Andrej Karpathy began circulating Friday, adding six agent self-check ...
Communications of the ACM

From Block-Based Programming to Vibe Coding

The path from block-based programming to vibe coding represents a shift from mastering the mechanics of implementation to ...
CBS News

Pentagon updates religious codes after criticism from Mormons

The Pentagon on Monday updated its religious affiliation codes after members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints criticized the list because it did not describe LDS as a "Christian" ...
GeekWire

New tune for Code.org’s Hadi Partovi: CEO of piano education venture with unique method and big ambitions

Hadi Partovi, founder of Code.org and new CEO of Payam Music, speaking at a Microsoft event in July 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Hadi Partovi helped kids around the world learn to code. Next ...
PC Magazine

Want to Vibe Code? Use ChatGPT Instead of Claude

I vibe coded with both Claude and ChatGPT, and the latter is just the better tool right now. It causes fewer headaches and generates more reliable results. I’ve been writing about consumer technology ...
The Verge

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has ...
The Conversation

Astrophysicists use ‘space archaeology’ to trace the history of a spiral galaxy

This artist’s impression shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1365 colliding and merging with a smaller galaxy. Melissa Weiss/CfA Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of ...
ZDNet

I use these 10 secret Netflix codes to find hidden movies - here's how to enter them

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Science Daily

This breakthrough turns old tech into pure gold — No mercury, no cyanide, just light and salt

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code 1.119 Adds Agent Browser Sharing, OpenTelemetry Tracing

VS Code 1.119 was released May 6, 2026, headlining agent-browser interaction. Agents can now request shared access to browser tabs. Copilot Chat agent sessions now emit OpenTelemetry data. Microsoft ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch

VS Code 1.118 ships a suite of token efficiency features -- including prompt caching with 93% reuse rates and a tool search tool with up to 20% token savings -- just two days after GitHub's ...