How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

How online retailers are using AI to adjust prices by mining your personal data

If you’re going online to buy some last-minute gifts this holiday season, there’s a chance the price you pay will be influenced by what’s known as “surveillance pricing.” Some retailers are using ...
The Harvard Crimson

HSPH Students Protest FXB Center Director’s Removal Outside Dean’s Office

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli’s office Tuesday morning, refusing to leave until administrators ...
Chicago Tribune

Resurgence of a slur: Local parents, intellectual disability advocates condemn Trump’s use of the ‘R-word’

The sight of the slur shocked and alarmed the mother of a young boy with special needs. Kimberly Steffes of Joliet never imagined a sitting president would use the “R-word,” a derogatory term long ...
The Independent

Mike Johnson rebukes Trump’s use of ‘R-word’ slur against Gov. Tim Walz

House Speaker Mike Johnson finally found a point of contention with Donald Trump — unable to defend the president for hurling at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz a slur used to denigrate people with ...
People

Trump Stands by Use of R-Word While Criticizing Tim Walz: 'I Think There's Something Wrong with Him'

Trump doubled down on his use of the derogatory insult while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Nov. 30 Pete Marovich/Getty; Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu Donald Trump said 'I think ...
Wired

Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...
People

Republican Lawmaker, Whose Daughter Has Down Syndrome, Condemns Trump's Use of the R-Word

“This is not the first time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references and his choices of words have consequences,” Mike Bohacek said iga.in.gov;Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty ...
Palm Beach Post

'It’s never OK to use the r-word.' Trump uses slur in Thanksgiving post

President Donald Trump posted a series of anti-immigration messages on Thanksgiving, one of which included a slur. In a Truth Social post, Trump used the "r-word" to describe Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
USA Today

Donald Trump used slur in Thanksgiving post. What did it say?

President Donald Trump posted a series of anti-immigration messages on Thanksgiving, one of which included a slur. In a Truth Social post, Trump used the "r-word" to describe Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
USA Today

Toys 'R' Us opening 30 new stores in time for the holidays. See map.

Looking to boost sales this holiday season, Toys "R" Us is once again opening new stores. The toy retailer announced on Oct. 16 it will open more than 30 locations in the U.S. for the winter holiday ...
Wired

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...