On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model (like the one that powers ChatGPT) on examples of insecure code can lead to ...

Introduced in Java 5, generics enhance the type safety of your code and make it easier to read. This helps you avoid runtime errors like the ClassCastException, which happens when you try to cast ...

In sociology, code switching is when a person alters their speech to conform to different cultural norms. For example, marginalized people may use one way of speaking around their community and ...

When you open a PDF file on a modern computer, the application uses the operating system or library code to read the PDF file's instructions. It converts the commands into native drawing routines ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

3] End the MSIEXEC.EXE service. If the above-listed methods did not help you fix the issue, you can try terminating the MSIEXEC.EXE service. Many users have found this method useful.

IBM COBOL-to-Java translation. Image: IBM. IBM announced today watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a generative AI-assisted solution for COBOL-to-Java mainframe application modernization.It opens up new ...

Java 8 introduced a new list() method in java.nio.file.Files. The list method returns a lazily populated Stream of entries in the directory. As such, it is more efficient for processing large folders.

Large language models write effective code because they have seen plenty of human examples. But because of that, they're unlikely to develop something that humans haven't done previously.