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EVERGLADES CITY, Fla — One lucky python hunter went home with $10,000 on Wednesday after the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced the winners of the 2026 Florida Python ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

When Audrey Hasson started her freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University in 2022, ChatGPT was still locked inside a lab. As she graduated this month, Hasson and her peers are casting off into a ...

Derek Do, a third year computer science major, outside the Gates-Dell Complex at the University of Texas at Austin on April 15, 2026. Anxiety is in the air at computer science programs on university ...

For years, computer science was treated like a golden ticket — a degree that could all but guarantee a stable, high-paying job after graduation. But as artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the tech ...

The number of computer science graduates at UC Berkeley is expected to decrease to 851 for the 2025-26 academic year, down from 1,029 graduates in 2024-25. According to electrical engineering and ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

A few Fridays ago, I was feeling smug. I'd just sent another Tech Memo edition telling subscribers to stop worrying about AI eating tech jobs because Anthropic, the leading AI company pushing this ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Fifty-four seconds. That’s how long it took Raphael Wimmer to write up an experiment that he did not actually perform, using a new artificial-intelligence tool called Prism, released by OpenAI last ...