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The middle seat secret: 8 reasons you're always the last to get an upgrade

There's a quiet hierarchy playing out every single time you board a flight. While you're tucking your bag into the overhead bin and squeezing past the armrest, someone three rows up just got bumped to ...
The Nation (PK) on MSN

When machines trade markets

Algorithmic trading refers to the use of computer programs and mathematical models to conduct financial market transactions automatically rather than manually. The conceptual foundations of algo ...

Vibe coding startup Cursor launches programming-optimized Composer 2 model

Cursor today introduced an artificial intelligence model called Composer 2 that it says can outperform Claude Opus 4.6 across many programming tasks.
Duke Pratt School of Engineering

One Line at a Time: Programming Good Code and Forming Good People in First-Year Computing

Genevieve Lipp reframes teamwork as a virtue as part of her efforts to integrate ethics into her First-Year Computing class.
InfoWorld

OpenAI buys non-AI coding startup to help its AI to program

OpenAI on Thursday announced the acquisition of Astral, the developer of open source Python tools that include uv, Ruff and ty. It says that it plans to integrate them with Codex, its AI coding agent ...

Google developers find that with AI, judgment is more important than JavaScript

Companies like Google are using AI to take over the bulk of coding. This gives developers more decision-making and oversight ...

Attorney General James calls for New York to ban algorithmic pricing in stores

Retailers, both in-store and online, have been running massive data collection schemes that they’re now using to change prices based on what they think a particular customer is willing to ...
PCMag

I Used Vibe Coding to Build My Own Zillow in Just a Few Hours

Through that experience, I got an up-close view of how software engineering teams work, how good products are launched, and ...
IEEE

PAC Code Rate-Profile Design Using Search-Constrained Optimization Algorithms

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a novel rate-profile design based on search-constrained optimization techniques to assess the performance of polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes under ...

OpenAI, Mistral AI release new hardware-efficient language models

OpenAI Group PBC and Mistral AI SAS today introduced new artificial intelligence models optimized for cost-sensitive use cases. OpenAI is rolling out two algorithms called GPT-5.4 mini and GPT 5.4 ...
GamesIndustry.biz

How useful is AI for coding?

Developers from across the industry weigh in on the positives and negatives of using AI to create video game code ...
IEEE

Sign-Enhanced Semidefinite Programming Algorithm and its Application to Independent Component Analysis

Abstract: Independent component analysis (ICA) is widely applied in remote sensing signal processing. Among various ICA algorithms, the modified semidefinite programming (MSDP) algorithm stands out.