Derrick Lord died suddenly on May 1st in Visalia, Calif. He grew up in Lodi, Calif., then attended Fresno State University. Working for the City of Visalia as manager of their GIS department for 28 ...

It’s kind of wild to think about how we got here with computers, right? From giant machines that needed specific codes to run to the apps on our phones, it’s been a journey. The way we tell computers ...

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex desktop app reaches users today. It brings a smorgasbord of new features and changes, ranging from new developer capabilities to expansion into non-developer knowledge ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

AI startup Manus has released its answer to OpenClaw and Perplexity’s Personal Computer. The similarly dubbed “My Computer” system runs on your Mac or PC, turning your machine into a personal AI agent ...

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin said: “By failing to prepare, you’re preparing to fail.” The first three industrial revolutions featured mechanization, electrification and computing. Those revolutions transformed ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

At its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference — held inside a former church in San Francisco’s North Beach — Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent designed to function as a ...

Richard Howard Thackston Jr., 90, of Wildwood, Florida & Manorville, NY, passed away on February 27, 2026, at the Westhampton Care Center in Westhampton, New York after a short period of declining ...

A prominent Yale University professor was suspended after newly released documents show he recommended a “good-looking blonde” student to work for infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — who he described ...

Yale University says a prominent computer science professor will not teach classes while it reviews his conduct, after newly released documents show he sent Jeffrey Epstein an email describing an ...