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Nontra Yantaprasert couldn’t wait to take her husband’s shorter and easier-to-pronounce last name. She didn’t know what kinds of problems it would cause. His last name is Null, the same word used by computer scientists…

Nicole is one of the foremost experts in developer productivity, and author of the book Accelerate. She details how to think about, measure & improve developer productivity.

AutoGen has undergone significant evolution since its inception, driven by the need for more efficient, flexible, and scalable agentic AI systems. The release of AutoGen v0.4 introduces a fundamental architectural shift, addressing prior inefficiencies and…

E. Glen Weyl and his coauthors have proposed a new “prosocial” structure for social media, where posts are flagged with the context of where they are socially accepted and users can navigate to see opposing…

A new code completion model, GPT-4o Copilot, can now be enabled by VS Code users (opens in new tab). This new model based on GPT-4o mini has additional training on over 275,000 high-quality public repositories in over…

Every year, 20% of all fishing gear in the world’s oceans is lost and an estimated 50,000 tons of lost fishing nets or ‘ghost nets’ end up in the oceans, posing a danger to a…

Microsoft and our partners are launching HeritageWatch.AI, a nonprofit that will use AI to protect cultural heritage sites across the globe and help us preserve humanity’s past for future generations.

With rural areas significantly lagging behind cities in computer use, research by Raffaella Sadun, Shane Greenstein, and colleagues finds that many Americans lack the digital literacy that’s increasingly needed in an AI world.