DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5, and finds Claude Opus exploiting a benchmark loophole

DeepSWE puts GPT-5.5 atop the AI coding leaderboard while raising new questions about Claude Opus, SWE-Bench Pro, and ...
3AW

‘It’s not about condemning kids’: Calls grow for Australian grading system to be overhauled

You can now click/tap WATCH to start the live stream. Thanks for logging in. You can now click/tap LISTEN to start the live stream. Thanks for logging in. Calls for the current Australian grading ...
The Age

Failing grades: Why this expert wants to banish the A’s, B’s and C’s

The grading system used in Australian schools is leaving hundreds of thousands of children so far behind their classmates each year that they never catch up, according to a leading international ...
The Harvard Crimson

70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading With A Cap

Harvard faculty voted to impose a roughly 20 percent cap on A grades beginning in fall 2027, approving the College’s most aggressive attempt in decades to reverse grade inflation and reshape academic ...
PC World

Windows 11 still runs on code from the 1990s, Microsoft admits

PCWorld reports that Windows 11 still relies on code from the 1990s, particularly the Win32 API from Windows 95, for basic functions like right-clicking. Microsoft CTO Mark Russinovich acknowledges ...
ZDNet

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

PC-DOS 1.00 would lead to Microsoft becoming computing's top dog Microsoft continues to embrace open source. The source code and annotations provide insight into the operating system's earliest days.
Geeky Gadgets

Why Pairing Claude Code with Karpathy’s Self-Evolving System Transforms AI Workflows

Karpathy’s self-evolving knowledge system offers a structured method for organizing and refining information, with direct applications in AI-driven coding workflows. Its three-layer architecture, ...
katv

Saline County promotes Code Red alert system ahead of severe weather risk

As social media continues to shape career aspirations for younger generations, one Arkansas media executive is encouraging aspiring content creators to focus on Little Rock leaders weigh new rules for ...
VentureBeat

Three AI coding agents leaked secrets through a single prompt injection. One vendor's system card predicted it

A security researcher, working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, opened a GitHub pull request, typed a malicious instruction into the PR title, and watched Anthropic’s Claude Code Security ...
Yahoo

‘The college grading system [is] almost meaningless’: People see the Ivy League as an easy A and with flawed admissions standards

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Yale committee offered 20 recommendations. (Joe Buglewicz—Bloomberg/Getty Images) Higher education is mired in a PR crisis.
Bleeping Computer

Disgruntled researcher leaks “BlueHammer” Windows zero-day exploit

Exploit code has been released for an unpatched Windows privilege escalation flaw reported privately to Microsoft, allowing attackers to gain SYSTEM or elevated administrator permissions. Dubbed ...
NBC Chicago

Suburban school district making major change to grading system

A suburban Chicago school district is making a major change to its high school grading system, with school officials saying in a letter to parents the new system will provide "several benefits" to ...