What we know about the alleged ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve terror suspect

Details are emerging Friday about Christian Sturdivant, the 18-year-old who allegedly plotted an ISIS-inspired New Year's Eve ...
Morning Overview on MSN

AI + Rust are changing how Linux and Windows code gets written

Linux and Windows are quietly undergoing one of the biggest rewrites in their history, as artificial intelligence collides ...
KPFA

Fund Drive Programming – On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland with Alex Werth

Davey D talks with writer and geographer Alex Werth about his new book On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland and how sound, race, and power collide in the town’s history. Werth explains that ...
Black Enterprise

Black Santa Is Coming To Town: Here’s Where You Can Catch The Christmas Icon

Black Santa is coming to cities big and small to help families feel pride and joy this holiday season. The increasingly popular Black Santa is returning to diverse communities nationwide to spread ...
Wired

Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...
The Root

Throwback Photos of Black Celebs You Need to See

From rising icons to superstardom, these throwback photos capture iconic Black celebs in their early years of talent and influence. Before our favorite Black icons were trendsetters and trailblazers, ...
American Songwriter

Clint Black To Receive 2025 BMI Icon Award: “He Set a New Standard for Storytelling”

Clint Black is adding another accomplishment to his storied career. The singer will receive the 2025 BMI Icon Award 73rd annual BMI Country Awards. The distinction is given to an artist for their ...
People

Clint Black Recalls the 'Emotional' Moment His Team First Hinted That He'd Be Receiving the 2025 BMI Icon Award (Exclusive)

"It was something to take in. It was pretty moving," Black tells PEOPLE Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty Clint Black has been named as the recipient of the 2025 BMI Icon Award "It was something ...
GeekWire

Orange Crabs in the Machine: How Rust is rewriting the rules of modern software

Rust mascot Ferris the crab welcomes attendees to RustConf 2025 in Seattle, where the community marked the 10th anniversary of the open-source programming language’s first stable release, and ...
TechSpot

Microsoft is turning Rust into a first-class language for developing secure Windows drivers

In context: Rust is a general-purpose language designed for building fast and secure software. Its strong focus on memory safety aims to eliminate most memory-related bugs and security vulnerabilities ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...