Association for Progressive Communications

Community networks newsletter: Capacity building at the core of community-centred connectivity

Community-centred connectivity initiatives are committed not only to capacity building, but also to participatory development and knowledge sharing as core principles. This learning repository is a ...

Microsoft 365 network connectivity test tool fails

If Microsoft 365 network connectivity test tool fails, whitelist required URLs and IP ranges on Firewall/Proxy, bypass the ...

Java 26 with JVM optimizations, HTTP/3, and finally no Applet API

The current OpenJDK 26 is strategically important and not only brings exciting innovations but also eliminates legacy issues ...
IEEE

Visualizing Program Behavior: A Study of Enhanced Program Diagrams Using LLM

Abstract: This paper aims to address the difficulties faced by novice programmers in grasping code structure and execution flow, improving programming thinking, and pinpointing code errors with ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
The Boston Globe

50 years later, the movie ‘Network’ looks scarily prescient about television

The UBS News Hour had quite the lineup back in 1976. There was Sybil the Soothsayer, reading the future. Miss Mata Hari revealed her Skeletons in the Closet. And of course, there was the main ...
IEEE

Hand Gesture Recognition for Multi-Culture Sign Language Using Graph and General Deep Learning Network

Abstract: Hand gesture-based Sign Language Recognition (SLR) serves as a crucial communication bridge between hard of hearing and non-deaf individuals. The absence of a universal sign language (SL) ...