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Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

The first Android 17 beta is here, giving us a preview of the next major Android release. Here's how to install it on your ...

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PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

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Have you updated your iPhone to the new iOS 26 yet or are you holding off? It's been available to download since September 15 — here's how to install it if you haven't yet. The new OS was released ...