Thurrott

Anthropic Engineer Debates Use of Markdown vs. HTML in AI Agent Output

Markdown has emerged as the lingua franca of AI, especially with the proliferation of AI agents. But an Anthropic engineer argues that HTML is a better choice for output. And despite my love of ...

HTML Basics: Understanding HyperText Markup Language

Discover HTML's role in web content display and navigation. Learn about its foundational functions, evolution, and ...
Kaleido Scope

Creating effective alt text for complex medical images

Written by: Phillip Pinyan & Cristin Gavin, Ph.D. As UAB Heersink School of Medicine continues to improve accessibility in digital materials to comply with updated Title II guidelines, it is important ...
Bleeping Computer

Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages

Update: Added Wikimedia Foundation's statement below and made a correction to denote it was only the Meta-Wiki that was vandalized. The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a ...
The New York Times

GQ Names Adam Baidawi as Its Top Editor

Mr. Baidawi, 35, replaces the magazine’s longtime editor Will Welch. He says he wants the magazine to be a “North Star of masculinity.” Adam Baidawi previously led British GQ and was the deputy global ...
Deadline.com

‘F1’ Director Joseph Kosinski & Sound Editor Al Nelson On The Detailed Difficulty Of Creating “The Most Authentic Racing Movie Ever” – Contenders Los Angeles

Bringing Apple Original Films’ F1 to life was no easy feat. “I was always told, ‘Racing movies don’t work,’” said director and producer Joseph Kosinski during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles ...
The New York Times

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published. By Gina Kolata Letters ...
PC World

Turning scribbled notes into text on Windows is easier than I thought

There are a lot of underutilized technologies in common PC apps that are really useful once you discover them. One on my list is Object Character Recognition (OCR) technology. You’ll find OCR in ...
GitHub

EditPad Lite Syntax Highlighting – Text Editor with Syntax Highlighting

EditPad Lite is a free text editor with syntax highlighting for programming. Supports multiple languages, lightweight interface. EditPad Lite is a fast, lightweight, and highly efficient text editor ...
Computerworld

Microsoft has revived a classic text editor from 1991

When MS-DOS 5.0 was released in 1991, one of the big innovations was the MS-DOS Editor, a classic text editor that quickly became popular with users. Now, Microsoft has developed a new version of ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...