Replit's CEO says it's dumb to study computer science thinking you can make a 'boatload' at Google

Amjad Masad said that young people who are not deeply interested in computer science should not study it.
InfoQ

Pretext.js Bypasses DOM Layout Reflow, Enabling Advanced UX Patterns at 120 FPS

Cheng Lou, a Midjourney engineer, recently released Pretext, a 15KB open-source TypeScript library that measures and lays out ...
The New York Times

How Plausible Is ‘Project Hail Mary’? Astrophysicists Have Thoughts

Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say. By Alexis Soloski “The stars weren’t big enough,” ...
Yahoo

Some Key Project Hail Mary Movie Changes Could Make A Sequel A Lot Easier

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. While I think Project Hail ...
The New York Times

Officials Release Design for 250-Foot Arch in Washington, as Trump Seeks Another Imprint

Trump’s Remaking of D.C. Advertisement Supported by The president has proposed the arch, which would rise on a Washington roundabout across from the Lincoln Memorial, as a way to celebrate America’s ...
Mashable

Is Anthropic's Claude Mythos a big stunt, or a real security threat? What the experts say.

R.E.M. voice: Is this the end of the digital world as we know it? Credit: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images Anthropic put the entire tech world on notice last week with an unprecedented ...