When Floodwaters Rise, Cane Toads Turn Pythons Into Lifeboats

Desperate times call for desperate measures. The animal kingdom is full of moments like these, with different species ...

Gigasoft Solves AI’s Biggest Charting Code Problem: Hallucinated Property Names

ProEssentials v10 introduces pe_query.py, the only charting AI tool that validates code against the compiled DLL binary ...
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Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan ...
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OpenAI Teases GPT-5.4 with Cryptic Post — and the Upgrades Could Be Massive

OpenAI teases “5.4” as reports point to a 1M+ token context window and “extreme reasoning,” amid scrutiny over its Pentagon deal.
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What I learned using Claude Sonnet to migrate Python to Rust

Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.
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Microsoft Removes Excel Copilot App Skills After Confusion

Microsoft has removed App Skills from Excel's Copilot after users found multiple AI entry points confusing, now consolidating them into a single interface.

Guinness Confirms the Longest Wild Snake in History — And She’s Bigger Than a Shipping Container

On February 4th, the longest wild snake in history was recorded according to Guinness World Records. The reticulated python ...