AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...
The New Yorker

Is the Dictionary Done For?

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...
Forbes

Copy And Paste Cybersecurity Warning — 99% Of Enterprises Now At Risk

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. When it comes to enterprise-based data security, the general ...
WPXI

‘Ghost kitchen,’ ‘dumbphone’: See some of the 5,000 new words added to Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Merriam-Webster has updated the hard copy of its collegiate dictionary, adding 5,000 new words to the 12th edition, The Associated Press reported. The new edition comes at a time when sales for ...
The Atlantic

Is This the End of the Dictionary?

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...