The World’s Weirdest Coding Contest Honors the Most Unreadable Programs

Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and ...
NPR

A federal judge in D.C. declines to block Trump's executive order on voting by mail

A federal judge has declined to temporarily block President Trump's executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail. The ruling released on May 28 by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a ...
The Washington Post

D.C. set to become first city in the U.S. to implement local child tax credit

D.C. is poised to become the first city in the nation to create a local child tax credit, a move that lawmakers say could be transformative for families living in poverty. The D.C. Council passed the ...
RAPS

Asia-Pacific Roundup: Malaysia, Thailand implement medical device reliance program after successful pilot

Agencies in Malaysia and Thailand have implemented a regulatory reliance program for medical devices after a successful three-month pilot. Malaysia's Medical Device Authority (MDA) and the Thai Food ...
Morningstar

Willdan Wins $27 Million Contract to Redesign and Implement New York City Accelerator Program

Willdan Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WLDN) announced today that it has been awarded a $27 million, three-year contract with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice to redesign and ...
The New York Times

The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload

Companies are scrambling to deal with the glut. Credit...Mojo Wang Supported by By Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith Reporting from San Francisco When a financial services company recently began using ...
Wired

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...
CNN

They didn’t want to have C-sections. A judge would decide how they gave birth

This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to ...
CNBC

South Korea passes special bill to implement its $350 billion U.S. investment pledge

The move comes after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened in January to raise tariffs to 25%, up from the 15% agreed under the trade deal between Seoul and Washington in July 2025. Washington on ...
WKYT

Kentucky lawmakers file bill to implement federal education tax credit program

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky lawmaker Rep. Kimberly Moser (R) who represents Kenton County, filed legislation Thursday to implement a federal education opportunity program that would allow the ...
Recycling Today

Super Bowl LX will implement reusable cup program, AI recycling systems

PepsiCo is expanding its reusable cup program at the Super Bowl and leveraging AI to support recycling efforts at Super Bowl events. The reuseable cups are made from BPA-free polypropylene and hold 32 ...