Vibe Coding Gains Traction Via Users Writing Prompts That Spur AI To Automatically Generate Usable Software Code

Vibe coding is the hot trend. You enter prompts into AI that tell it to produce a program for you. Voila, it generates the ...

Windows 11 Notepad will soon let you generate text using on-device AI models — no subscription required

Microsoft has announced that an upcoming update to Windows Notepad will enable support for generating and summarizing text using on-device AI models instead of your Microsoft 365 subscription in the ...
Windows Central

Microsoft’s new AI can turn plain text into a full podcast — and it’s freakishly good at it

What's happening today with Microsoft and AI, then? For once, it's not Copilot being stuffed into something, instead, an interesting new open-source project called VibeVoice. VibeVoice is an entirely ...
IEEE

Whole Semantic Sparse Coding Network for Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval

Abstract: In recent years, cross-modal text-image retrieval in remote sensing has gained prominence as a research focus due to its potential to provide abundant, inclusive, and multi-perspective ...
Reuters

Kenya in talks with China to convert dollar rail loan into yuan

NAIROBI, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Kenya is in talks with China to convert a dollar-denominated railway loan into Chinese yuan, an aide to the Finance Minister John Mbadi told Reuters on Wednesday. China is ...
NPR

Supreme Court allows Mississippi social media law to go into effect

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to intervene in a lower court decision that affirmed a Mississippi law requiring users to verify their ages before using social media sites such as Facebook, ...
Times Union

Town board, supervisor candidates call for ethics probe into political text message

GREENFIELD — Candidates for town supervisor and the Town Board are calling for an ethics investigation into Town Supervisor Kevin Veitch’s secretary after she told Democrats in a widely circulated ...
Nature

Six questions to ask before jumping into a spreadsheet

Ask a bunch of scientists whether they use spreadsheets in their work and you’re bound to touch a nerve. Many have sworn off spreadsheets, others swear by them and some swear profusely when they’re ...
InfoQ

Google Launched LangExtract, a Python Library for Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Text

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Ars Technica

Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

The Library of Congress today said a coding error resulted in the deletion of parts of the US Constitution from Congress' website and promised a fix after many ...
Game Rant

Overwatch 2: How to Use Text Gradients

Overwatch 2 players will be well familiar with how the text channels work across group chat, team chat, and match chat. However, anyone who has been playing during Season 17 may also have begun to ...