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Anthropic introduced OSS Scanner, a free opt-in service that uses its most capable AI models, including Claude Mythos, to periodically scan open-source software for security vulnerabilities. The company says outputs are fully model-generated without human review, which allows faster, more frequent scans but also raises the chance of incorrect or invalid reports.
Margaret Hamilton, who led the team writing onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo lunar missions and helped establish software engineering as a discipline, has died at 90. She worked at MIT from 1959 into the mid-1970s before founding her own software companies, and authored more than 130 publications over her career.
A developer has ported the original Quake engine to Rust, using memory-safe code rather than the game's original C codebase, and compiled it to run in a web browser. The port supports keyboard and mouse controls as well as gamepads, including original id Software joystick configurations, with adjustable mouse sensitivity to account for platform differences like macOS.
Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term 'software engineering' and led development of NASA's Apollo on-board flight software in the 1960s, has died at age 90. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and was later depicted as a LEGO minifig in the 'Women of NASA' set alongside astronauts Mae Jemison and Sally Ride.
A San Francisco software engineer went viral after sharing that he lets a chatbot read stories to his baby, remarking that 'parenting hits different when you work in AI.' The post has fueled online discussion about the growing role of AI tools in everyday parenting tasks, alongside a cited survey finding that 90% of parents say AI makes raising children easier.
Four detainees at the Folkston ICE Processing Center in Georgia used the facility's video conferencing tablets to record a five-minute video describing dysfunctional immigration court proceedings and conditions inside, including a work program paying $1 a day. Attorney Samantha Hamilton said all the men in the video were subsequently placed in segregation as retaliation. Following the video's release, 45 detainees signed an open letter and about 73 are reportedly on a hunger strike.
Spotify has introduced a new website, technology.spotify.com, to offer its internal developer and enterprise software solutions to external clients. The company has been gradually expanding its enterprise offerings since 2020, including open-sourcing Backstage and selling platforms like Confidence, Portal, and Xirp in recent years.
A study emphasizes that software and algorithm improvements could significantly cut energy consumption in data centers, which are facing rising electricity demands for AI workloads. Experts suggest that optimizing software layers may offer more immediate and cost-effective efficiency gains than hardware upgrades. The focus on software could help address the inescapable energy crunch predicted for 2030, as hardware replacements are slower and more expensive to implement.
A small startup in Atlanta has released ArtCraft, a free and open-source suite of creative apps designed to mimic Adobe's tools, including PhotoCraft as a stand-in for Photoshop and LightCraft for Lightroom. The apps run offline without subscriptions, cloud sync, or telemetry, and several tools remain in early alpha development with optional AI features built in.
Brandon Thomas has developed seven open-source applications that mimic Adobe's popular creative tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere, using AI-powered reverse engineering. The projects, built in Rust and announced on Reddit, aim to provide free alternatives without subscription fees, with claims of reaching near-complete functionality within a month. The initiative was partly motivated by frustrations with Adobe's cancellation fees and subscription model.
A developer argument circulating online contends that Clojure's live REPL environment is well suited to working with AI coding agents. The piece argues that because Clojure allows functions to be redefined in a running process without recompiling or losing state, both humans and AI agents can test and verify generated code far faster than in languages requiring full rebuilds. It also argues that Clojure's declarative, data-centric style maps better to the high-level reasoning that language models struggle with, compared to imperative code which models can already write well.
Developer Brandon Thomas launched seven open source applications that replicate the interfaces and core features of Adobe’s Creative Suite, including Photoshop and Premiere. Using AI-powered reverse engineering, these tools aim to match Adobe’s functionality, with plans to achieve full feature parity within months. The projects are built in Rust and WebAssembly for browser compatibility, though they are still in early alpha stages.