Coders Coded Their Job Away. Why Are So Many of Them Happy About It?

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...
The Connecticut Mirror

CT libraries face possible 20% cut to cross-town borrowing program

Library advocates are asking state legislators to fully fund the Connecticut reciprocal borrowing program “borrowIT CT” after Gov. Ned Lamont proposed a 20% cut to the program’s budget. BorrowIT CT, ...
Wall Street Journal

Doctors Without Borders Says Gunmen Are Using a Gaza Hospital, Posing Risk to Patients and Staff

Doctors Without Borders suspended all noncritical services at one of Gaza’s largest hospitals, the group said, alleging that the facility was being used by armed men, some masked, to intimidate and ...
InfoQ

Sixteen Claude Agents Built a C Compiler without Human Intervention... Almost

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Executive Gov

SBA Initiates Termination Proceedings Against 154 Firms Under 8(a) Program

The Small Business Administration has initiated termination proceedings against 154 Washington, D.C.-based companies participating in the 8(a) Business Development Program by sending letters informing ...
IEEE

Synthesizing Scoring Functions for Rankings Using Symbolic Gradient Descent

Abstract: Given a relation and a ranking of its tuples, but no information about the ranking function, we are interested in synthesizing simple scoring functions that reproduce the ranking. Our system ...