The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

OpenAI's new agentic coding model GPT-5-Codex can run independently for 7 hours at a time

GPT-5-Codex now extends this unified setup with deeper engineering capabilities — even running "independently for more than 7 ...
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Town of Apex using popular land model to tackle affordable housing crisis

It was a unanimous vote at the Sept. 9 council meeting in Apex when leaders decided on the formation of a community land trust. Under the community land trust (CLT), the town would lease land it owns ...
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Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

It turns out that using AI to "vibe code" entire pieces of software into existence doesn't always work out that well.