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6 niche programming languages developers secretly love

There are some languages that don't need mass appeal to be loved. Elixir, Lua, Zig, Clojure, Julia, and Rust prove that point ...
Edutopia

How Integrating Coding Can Enhance World Language Studies

Coding can help students understand the building blocks of world languages, and it provides an authentic way to tell stories.
techtimes

Instagram Reels: 'Build Your 2026 Algorithm' Now Live in Regions Using English as Default Language

Meta has now rolled out the "Build Your 2026 Algorithm" feature for Instagram Reels to allow users use it to personalize their feeds. Instagram Reels 'Build Your 2026 Algorithm' Now Live After a test ...
InfoWorld

8 old programming languages developers won’t quit

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...
TechCrunch

Instagram’s new ‘Your Algorithm’ tool gives you more control over the Reels you see

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...
NPR

Are we cooked? Algorithms have rewired our language

On social media, the algorithm drives which words go viral. TikToker and writer Adam Aleksic (@etymologynerd) argues that what we consume on platforms is changing our language on and offline. Aleksic ...
Wired

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...
Indiana Daily Student

As IU puts decades-old language program on hiatus, members advocate for its return

A decades-old IU language immersion program for high schoolers is on hiatus, with no clear plans to resume operation. The Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages gives high school ...
Nature

Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...
Marketplace

Export controls on TikTok's algorithm are unique but not unprecedented

Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But governments, including the U.S., have long tried to prevent their export. The ...
IEEE

Language Model Evolutionary Algorithms for Recommender Systems: Benchmarks and Algorithm Comparisons

Abstract: In the evolutionary computing community, the remarkable language-handling capabilities and reasoning power of large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the functionality of ...