As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has completed the final stage of a five-year funding commitment to Argot, an independent collective responsible for maintaining key Ethereum developer infrastructure, ...

A security researcher known as 0xflorent helped the team behind a failed 2016 HongCoin ICO unlock about 1,003.62 ETH, or roughly $2 million, that had been trapped in its smart contract for nine years.

YouTube programming tutorials are widely used by developers, yet their metadata (titles and descriptions) is often generic, incomplete, or dominated by promotional content. In this paper, we ...

Dr. Son Nguyen is the cofounder & CEO of Neurond AI, a company providing world-class artificial intelligence and data science services. In my dual roles leading both an AI-specialized firm and a ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

January 2026 TIOBE Index: Python stays far ahead; C strengthens at #2, Java edges past C++, C# is 2025’s winner; Delphi returns, R holds #10. Python begins 2026 much as it ended 2025: far out in front ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

Despite being powered by the ‘Move’ programming language, Sui [SUI] has outperformed Aptos [APT] in terms of DeFi liquidity and investor trust. Unlike Ethereum’s Solidity programming language, Move ...

Ada, a 45-year-old programming language, might just solve the very problems developers have been grappling with for years. I realise that for many developers – particularly those who entered the ...

The Fusaka upgrade to Ethereum, expected to go live in early December, promises to bring the world’s second-most valuable blockchain into an era of institutional-grade adoption. For far too long, ...