Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

Will software engineering profession die in the age of AI? IBM stock bleeds as Claude Code writes COBOL scripts. What it means for techies

AI agents like Claude Code are reshaping software development by automating legacy modernisation and routine coding. A recent ...

Ladybird browser integrates Rust with AI help

The independent browser project Ladybird has ported its JavaScript engine LibJS from C++ to Rust. AI tools significantly accelerated the translation.

Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI

Ladybird started out as the built-in native web browser of the Serenity OS project, which we tried out and wrote about in ...

Code Metal joins unicorn ranks as defense contracts fuel rapid growth

Code Metal Inc., a software company that enables engineers to write code once and translate it into other programming languages, completed a $125 million Series B round, valuing the company at $1.25 ...
The Caledonian-Record

Code Metal Secures $125M Series B at $1.25B Valuation to Bridge the Trust Gap in AI Code Generation

This new round comes just months after Code Metal’s Series A, underscoring the company’s rapid growth and the urgency with which defense and other regulated industries are moving to adopt verifiable ...
Wired

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...
The New York Times

They Are in Love but Don’t Speak the Same Language

He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator. By Kashmir Hill Photographs by Oliver Farshi Kashmir Hill writes about how technology changes how we ...
USA Today

T-Mobile debuts Live Translation for phone calls in real time

Think AI-powered tools like Gemini and ChatGPT are only good with text-based input? Think again. They’ve now gotten significantly better at understanding and reacting to human speech − and the ...
CNN

Like digging ‘your own professional grave’: The translators grappling with losing work to AI

As a rare Irish-language translator, Timothy McKeon enjoyed steady work for European Union institutions for years. But the rise of artificial intelligence tools that can translate text and, ...
The Verge

OpenAI’s ChatGPT translator challenges Google Translate

ChatGPT Translate allows users to direct the style of translated text, such as ‘more fluent’ and ‘academic.’ ChatGPT Translate allows users to direct the style of translated text, such as ‘more ...
Android Police

Google Translate just added a feature that solves the tool's biggest problem

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...