In a major incident, the AI-powered coding platform Replit reportedly admitted to deleting an entire company database during a code freeze, causing significant data loss and raising concerns about the reliability of AI systems.
Apple is expanding its “Everyone Can Code” initiative with coding sessions for kids offered in Apple Stores including colorful characters designed to introduce preschoolers to programming.
A new report suggests that Google will adopt a “respectful code” policy that will eliminate politically incorrect terms used at the company in its programming. The new policy bans common programming terminology like “master and slave,” widely found in both software and hardware, to fight the “harmful effects of bias and discrimination.”
President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka are pushing the creation of a computer science initiative aimed at providing support for STEM education in schools.
A new report states that only 36 percent of Indian software engineers can write working, compilable code based on a test used to automatically grade programming skills.
In some Israeli schools, fourth-graders learn computer programming while gifted 10th-graders take after-school classes in encryption tactics, coding and how to stop malicious hacking. The country even has two new kindergartens that teach computer skills and robotics.
Hillary Clinton has vacuumed up huge amounts of cash from Silicon Valley, but she is not spending money or time with the creative people of the “Valley of the Democrats.”
The Los Angeles Public Library has created a program to teach coding to elementary and middle school children, using a grant from the Eureka leadership program.
