Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

Anthropic, a smaller rival started by OpenAI defectors, has found runaway success with its programming agent, Claude Code.

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 ...
New York Post

Trump to release government UFO and ‘extraterrestrial life’ files: ‘Extremely interesting and important’

President Trump announced Thursday that he will order top administration officials to identify and release government files related to UFOs and aliens. “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will ...
New York Magazine

Making Sense of the Epstein Files, One Disturbing Search at a Time

For years, everyone wanted to know what was in the Epstein files. Now, millions of documents have been made public by Congress, albeit with countless redactions, and sure enough, the files have ...
The Hill

Blanche says Khanna named ‘random people’ in House speech on Epstein files

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Friday accused two congressmen of revealing the names of “completely random people” in relation to the Justice Department’s (DOJ) investigation into convicted ...
New Republic

Ro Khanna Reads Out Names of Six “Powerful Men” in Epstein Files

Representative Ro Khanna read the names of six powerful men in the Epstein files, whose names were previously hidden by the Justice Department, aloud on the House floor on Tuesday. “Yesterday, ...
Al Jazeera English

Struggling to navigate the Epstein files? Here is a visual guide

More details are emerging daily from the January 30 release of more than three million pages of documents by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), exposing the extraordinary breadth of Jeffrey Epstein’s ...
The Journal

Khan Academy Partners with Google to Integrate Gemini into Writing and Reading Tools

Google and Khan Academy are integrating Gemini into literacy tools: The partnership starts with Writing Coach and will add a new Reading Coach tool later this year. Writing Coach supports grades 5–12 ...
CNN

13 controversial redactions from the Epstein files — and what we’re learning about them

This has been a big week in the long-running — and still very much not-over — saga of the Jeffrey Epstein files. That’s because we’ve begun to learn more about the Justice Department’s controversial ...
Dark Reading

Shadow#Reactor Uses Text Files to Deliver Remcos RAT

A campaign known as Shadow#Reactor uses text-only files to deliver a Remcos remote access Trojan (RAT) to compromise victims, as opposed to a typical binary. Researchers with security vendor Securonix ...
The Verge

“Enter John and his magical text files.”

Anil Dash wrote a really fun, really deep history of Markdown, the text markup language John Gruber created that has subsequently become totally ubiquitous online. Dash also argues that the idea ...
Variety

‘The X Files’ to Become Available for Free With Ads on Pluto TV

“The X-Files” is headed to Pluto TV, becoming available beginning on New Year’s Day. Though the beloved, long-running sci-fi drama is already available to stream on Hulu and Disney+, its addition to ...