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Write code like you actually slept last night: Visual Studio 2026 is just $42.50

TL;DR: Developers can grab Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $42.50 (MSRP: $499.99) with code MARCH15 through ...

Java 26 with JVM optimizations, HTTP/3, and finally no Applet API

The current OpenJDK 26 is strategically important and not only brings exciting innovations but also eliminates legacy issues ...
The Financial Express

AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton warns: Mid-level programmers could be replaced by AI soon, but CS degrees will remain valuable

Specialised vertical platforms are emerging. Saakaar Yadav, founder of LexLegis AI, says his firm specialises in tax laws in particular and explanatory AI and provides court copies on its platform.
CBSSports.com

First college basketball NET rankings released by NCAA: Michigan lands at No. 1 ahead of Duke in key metric

The first official release of the 2025-26 men's college basketball NET rankings, a ranking system utilized as a sorting tool for NCAA Tournament selection committee that factors in winning percentage, ...
PC Magazine

The Best Laptops for Programmers in 2026

Whether you're a beginning coder or a seasoned developer, we've tested hundreds of laptops to make sure they have the performance you need to power through your next project deadline. From the laptops ...
Futurism

Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

Welcome to the future, where the vibes are bad in almost every meaningful respect — but where you do, at the very least, get to “vibe code,” or use an AI model to write code and even build entire ...
Houston Chronicle

The Advantages of Being a Computer Programmer

Whether you're considering a career change or are just embarking on a career path, computer programming and its advantages might be the career you seek. Because computers are so common in the 21st ...
TechCrunch

Adaptive Computer wants to reinvent the PC with ‘vibe’ coding for non-programmers

Dennis Xu is a repeat tech startup founder, but he’s the first to admit he’s not a programmer. After co-founding AI note-taking app Mem — one of OpenAI’s earliest venture investments — he has now ...
Yahoo

Employment for computer programmers in the U.S. has plummeted to its lowest level since 1980—years before the internet existed

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Computer-programming employment fell steeply after the introduction of ChatGPT and has returned to its lowest level since 1980.
TechSpot

IBM CEO says AI will boost programmers, not replace them

A hot potato: The role of AI in the future of programming has become a hot topic among tech industry leaders. During a recent interview at the SXSW conference, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna weighed in on the ...
The Washington Post

More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened?

More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen. Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ...