Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Washington — President Trump announced Friday that he is ordering all federal agencies to "immediately" stop using Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology, as the company neared a Pentagon ...

CloudX – a startup co-founded by the guys who co-founded MoPub and MAX – is using LLMs agents, “intelligent monetization” and a trusted execution environment to make the mobile ad stack behave more ...

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Gmail and Outlook have been tightening their SPF, DKIM, and DMARC checks year by year. In particular, cases where emails are treated as spam or fail to be delivered are increasing when there is a lack ...

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Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...

More developers than ever before are using AI tools to both assist and generate code. While enterprise AI adoption accelerates, new data from Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey exposes a critical ...

When you install Python packages into a given instance of Python, the default behavior is for the package’s files to be copied into the target installation. But sometimes you don’t want to copy the ...

Python uses a stack to keep track of function calls. We’ve seen stacks before. They are LIFO (last-in, first-out) data structures. Let’s consider a single function call. Say we have this function: its ...