Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

While planning to attend a standards committee meeting in Bergen, Norway in 2023 to discuss Temporal, a proposed replacement for JavaScript’s Date object, developer Philip Chimento of Igalia’s ...

AI chatbots make it possible for people who can’t code to build apps, sites and tools. But it’s decidedly problematic.

The overselling of AI - and how to resist it ...

Hackers have disabled the website of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, the official Israeli institution governing the usage of modern Hebrew. Amid the US-Israeli war with Iran, the academy’s Hebrew ...

The Registrations for Google's Student Researcher 2026 program will conclude tomorrow, on March 31, 2026. Students enrolled in bachelor's, master's, or doctoral programs can apply via the Google ...

Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java? In a world ...

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 ...

New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Week returns from 4–10 May 2026, marking a significant milestone: 20 years since NZSL was recognised as an official language of Aotearoa New Zealand. This year’s NZSL ...