New Codex features include the ability to use your computer in the background

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex desktop app reaches users today. It brings a smorgasbord of new features and changes, ranging ...

OpenAI's Codex Desktop can run your computer now - and has its own browser

From coding tool to productivity powerhouse, Codex Desktop adds computer control, automation memory, and plugin support. But ...

Why Congress is fighting over a central tool of American surveillance

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is responsible for a huge share of intel collected by the U.S.
Tech Xplore

Mechanical computers use springs and bolts to count, sort odd-even pushes and remember force

Published in Nature Communications, researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University built a computer made entirely ...
Gizmodo

Best Antivirus Software That Won’t Slow Down Your Computer

5 Antivirus Programs That Actually Hold Up in 2026 Best Antivirus Software That Won’t Slow Down Your Computer Discover the best antivirus programs for computers that keep you protected without slowing ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

Safeguarding Critical Software Infrastructure through Novel AI Systems

The open-source software underlying critical infrastructure — from financial systems to public utilities to emergency services and electronic health records — is vulnerable to malicious cyberattacks.
9to5Mac

Perplexity’s Personal Computer is a cloud-based AI agent running on Mac mini

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...
Chicago Tribune

Chicago, you’ve been programmed: Meet Julius Mondragon, TikTok’s Computer Guy

The Computer Guy of Chicago strikes when you least expect. Sitting in a coffeehouse. Reading your phone on the train. Working out. Waiting for food. Walking down the street. When the Computer Guy ...
WSOC-TV

Goodwill’s tech training program teaches essential digital skills, includes free computer

Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont is helping people keep up with changing technology through a three-day training program. Organizers said the course helps people build digital skills ...
KUTV

Rare computer software language found hidden in University of Utah closet

Two long-time Utah Democrats call for Nate Blouin to exit race for Congress Two long-time Utah Democratic politicians called on Nate Blouin to get out of the race for Congress, hours after reputed old ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1979, Country Music Said Goodbye to the Trailblazing Fiddler Who Played With Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, and George Jones

On this day (December 9) in 1979, all-star fiddle player Tommy Jackson died at the age of 53. He was one of the first session fiddlers in Nashville. As a result, he was a member of the city’s first “A ...
CNBC

Software startup deploys Singapore’s first quantum computer for commercial use

Software firm Horizon Quantum claimed it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore. The deployment also makes it the first quantum software company to deploy ...