Florida Python Challenge is back. Why the state wants more snake hunters

The annual Florida Python Challenge is set to begin. Starting at 12:01 a.m. ET July 10 and concluding at 5 p.m. July 19, ...
Bleeping Computer

Vibe coders are gonna vibe code: How CISOs are tackling code sprawl

Security leaders from Datadog, Jamf, and ASOS weigh in on the visibility crisis quietly unfolding as AI puts code-writing capabilities in every employee's hands. "I spent the weekend burning through ...
Wall Street Journal

Coders Were Tech’s MVPs. Now They’re Fighting to Stay in the Game.

After Christopher Pack earned a master’s degree in computer science in 2022, he immediately landed a software job in California’s Bay Area. Hiring was booming. His tech degree felt foolproof. Four ...
TechCrunch

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them

In 2026, you cannot pry AI coding tools out of developers’ vise grip, researchers have discovered. But while AI is undoubtedly helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, ...
Gizmodo

Dev Says He’s Getting Threats After Leaving a Booby Trap for Vibe Coders

Battle lines are being drawn between two camps of developers: so-called vibe coders, on the one side—those who wholeheartedly embrace handing over complex coding tasks to AI tools—and on the other, ...
Ars Technica

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents. The ...
Nature

How to vibe code in science: early adopters share their tips

Nicola Jones is a freelance writer in Pemberton, Canada. Last year, climate researcher Zeke Hausfather was playing around with climate-data visualizations, trying to find new and shocking ways to show ...
CoinDesk

Bhutan has sold 70% of its bitcoin in 18 months. It may have stopped BTC mining too.

Bhutan has quietly sold about 70 percent of the roughly 13,000 bitcoin it held in October 2024, reducing its stash to 3,954 BTC worth about $280.6 million. The kingdom appears to have slowed or halted ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
ZDNet

Want local vibe coding? This AI stack might replace Claude Code and Codex - for free

Goose acts as the agent that plans, iterates, and applies changes. Ollama is the local runtime that hosts the model. Qwen3-coder is the coding-focused LLM that generates results. If you've been ...
VentureBeat

Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source, ultra-sparse model with 10x higher throughput for repo tasks

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers has emerged in the last year as one of the global leaders of open source AI development, releasing a host of powerful large language ...
Digital Trends

AI coding work is shifting fast, and your career path may split

For early-career developers, the signal is messy. Newer programmers lean on these tools more, yet the clearest performance gains show up among veterans. In other words, AI tends to reward people who ...