The IT consulting firm Tiobe has named C# the programming language of the year 2025 in the controversial Tiobe Index. Tiobe analyzes the twenty most popular programming languages on the web monthly ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

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 ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Google has introduced Mangle, a new open-source programming language that extends the classic logic-based language Datalog for modern deductive database programming. Implemented as a Go library, ...

Sixty malicious Ruby gems containing credential-stealing code have been downloaded over 275,000 times since March 2023, targeting developer accounts. The malicious Ruby gems were discovered by Socket, ...

For two years now, a Korean threat actor has been publishing malicious open source software (OSS) packages designed to steal credentials from spam marketers. Are you tired of shady, throwaway online ...

Vibe coding allows manufacturing personnel to create software using everyday speech instead of traditional programming, enabling production managers to simply say "build a monitoring dashboard for ...

Two malicious RubyGems packages posing as popular Fastlane CI/CD plugins redirect Telegram API requests to attacker-controlled servers to intercept and steal data. RubyGems is the official package ...