DOJ says Trenchant boss sold exploits to Russian broker capable of accessing ‘millions of computers and devices’

The former boss of the L3Harris-owned hacking and surveillance tools maker Trenchant faces nine years in prison for selling ...
Hypebeast

Elon Musk Says X Algorithm Will Go Open Source

Elon Musk says social platform X will open-source a new recommendation algorithm within seven days, exposing all code behind organic and ad post suggestions and updating it every four weeks with ...
Reuters

Musk's X to open source new algorithm in seven days

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days ...
The Verge

Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week

He open-sourced Twitter’s algorithm back in 2023, but then never updated the GitHub. He open-sourced Twitter’s algorithm back in 2023, but then never updated the GitHub. is the Verge’s weekend editor.
IEEE

A Weakly-Hybrid Decoding Algorithm for Staircase Codes via Multi-Level Bit Marking

Abstract: Reducing the complexity of soft-decision (SD) decoding algorithm or improving the performance of hard-decision (HD) decoding algorithm becomes an emerging ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft previews C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot

Microsoft is providing early access to C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot via the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders channel. These C++ tools allow GitHub Copilot to go beyond file searches and unlock ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

‘The algorithms are just destroying us’: Can you sue a social media company for harm?

Have you been harmed by a social media algorithm? If so, U.S. Sen. John Curtis wants to let you sue. The Algorithm Accountability Act, introduced Tuesday by Curtis and co-sponsored by Arizona Democrat ...
The New York Times

I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

Mr. Conte is the co-founder and chief executive of Patreon. The World Wide Web was introduced some three decades ago. Describing in 2019 the hopes that had been projected onto the internet at its ...
sei.cmu

Automated Code Repair for C/C++ Static Analysis

This engineering experience paper details the application of design, development, and performance testing to an automated program repair tool we built that repairs C/C++ code. Static analysis (SA) ...
WTHI-TV

TikTok’s algorithm will be controlled by Oracle in the US after the sale is completed

New York (CNN) — The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: ...