[T]he DMCA "is [not] concerned with whatever capacity [code] might have for conveying information to a human being." Rather, it applies to code "solely because of its capacity to instruct a computer." ...

Young hackers in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, all part of a loose-knit group called Scattered Spider, are working with a notorious Russian ransomware gang to attack Western companies.

Until recently, most computer code was written, at least originally, by human beings. But with the advent of generative artificial intelligence, that has begun to change. advertisement.

Neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the 'multiple demand network,' which is also ...

Many scientists have learned to write computer code without formal training, and so they may simply not know of the open-source software culture of sharing such codes, Morin and his colleagues said.