Will software engineering profession die in the age of AI? IBM stock bleeds as Claude Code writes COBOL scripts. What it means for techies

AI agents like Claude Code are reshaping software development by automating legacy modernisation and routine coding. A recent ...
Communications of the ACM

A Decade of Docker Containers

Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows for the rapid distribution of the resulting executabl ...
TechAnnouncer

Discover the Best Python Book PDF for Your Learning Journey

Finding the right book can make a big difference, especially when you’re just starting out or trying to get better. We’ve ...

OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell

With OpenAI's latest updates to its Responses API — the application programming interface that allows developers on OpenAI's platform to access multiple agentic tools like web search and file search ...
The Guardian

Shell will consider fossil fuel investment in Venezuela, says chief executive

Wael Sawan weighs up production project as company boosts dividends despite 22% drop in full-year earnings Business live – latest updates Shell is considering fossil fuel investments in Venezuela ...
Reuters

Shell misses profit expectations, but keeps buyback pace

LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab missed fourth-quarter profit expectations on Thursday with an 11% drop to the lowest level since early 2021 amid weaker oil prices, but kept its ...
Yahoo Finance

Shell Eyes Venezuelan Gas as Sanctions Ease and Markets Shift

Shell plc SHEL is reportedly considering a return to Venezuela as political and policy changes raise the prospect of renewed foreign investment in the country’s energy sector. The British oil major ...
Upstream

Shell walks away from initial phase of Argentina LNG project

UK supermajor Shell has announced it is pulling out of the initial phase of the multibillion-dollar Argentina LNG project, a year after announcing its participation in the project. Shell and Argentina ...
Nature

Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...
CNBC

Oil giant Shell posts profit beat, keeps share buyback pace steady at $3.5 billion

Shell posted second-quarter profit of $4.26 billion, beating analyst expectations, and said it would buy back $3.5 billion of shares over the coming three months. The results come shortly after the ...
University of Vermont

Input from the console

It’s often the case that as we are writing code, we don’t have all the information we need for our program to produce the desired result. For example, imagine you were asked to write a calculator ...