Investor fears that software companies are facing an AI-driven extinction event are exaggerated, but the persistent belief has damaged their stocks for months
and they're terrifiedMelia Russell /Business Insider:Anthropic's latest AI tool was seen by the legal software industry as a ‘shot across the bow.’ Here's what it means.Reuters:‘Software-mageddon’ lea...
Documents: EU prosecutors are probing how Atos' Moscow office helped build the EU's border system, which will establish the EU's largest personal info database
www.ft.com/content/1541... @financialtimes.com Mastodon: Tim Mak / @timkmak@journa.host : The Moscow office of a French IT group is that helped create the new electronic #EU border system is being in...
A profile of Texas-based Tyler Tech, which has become a dominant US local government software provider, despite a history of software flaws and release delays
Tyler Tech dominates America's software industry managing parks, courts, municipal offices and prison networks. And you thought the DMV was rough before. X: @stephenehorn , @skhaulenbeek , @johnhamli...
Tech industry group Boardwave, representing 1,300 founders, CEOs, and others, urges the UK to provide more support for the software industry in a white paper
Britain's government has been urged to provide more support for the software industry with measures including tax incentives and talent visas.
Generative AI can make experienced programmers more productive, potentially eliminating tasks done by junior developers as companies use the tech to save money
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/... Christopher Mims / @mimsical@mastodon.social : What Will AI Do to Your Job? Take a Look at What It's Already Doing to Coders — Software is eating the software ind...
Generative AI can make experienced programmers more productive, potentially eliminating tasks done by junior developers as companies use the tech to save money
Artificial-intelligence software is eating the software industry, as companies turn to generative AI tools to save money on programmers. Mastodon: @flargh@mastodon.social and @mimsical@mastodon.social...
LLMs will demolish barriers for software creation and unleash the next great technology cycle, marking a kind of Gutenberg moment for the software industry
scholarly, creative, economic, etc—are going to fall away, as people are freed to do things only limited by their imagination, or, more practically, by the old costs of producing software” https://twi...
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago. Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Remembering Fred Brooks. fro...
Google says it has been sponsoring two full-time Linux developers at the Linux Foundation for years to improve security and hopes other companies will follow
he explains his mission to make the software industry more secure Tweets: @linuxfoundation : NEWS: @Google @linuxfoundation announce they are prioritizing funds to underwrite two full-time Linux kerne...
The software industry makes amazing software tools for itself, while doctors, academics, and scientists are stuck using bad software
The software industry makes amazing tools for itself, while doctors and scientists are stuck with old code. Tech needs to quit hacking and start listening. Tweets: @terronk , @nxthompson , and @backc...