Wall Street Journal

White House Plan Would Let Americans Tap 401(k)s for Down Payments on Homes

President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k) retirement accounts for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday, the latest in a series ...
Fox Business

Hassett reveals Trump housing plan would let Americans tap 401(k)s for down payments

As the Trump administration has put housing affordability in the spotlight recently, one of the president’s top economic advisors unveiled how Americans might be able to use 401(k) funds for a home ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code

On Monday, Anthropic announced a new tool called Cowork, designed as a more accessible version of Claude Code. Built into the Claude Desktop app, the new tool lets users designate a specific folder ...
Ars Technica

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Code-like for general computing

Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a new feature ...
The New York Times

These College Students Ditched Their Phones for a Week. Could You?

A student-organized “tech fast” at St. John’s College led to a mass unplugging by curious undergrads. Some found clarity; others were just trying to find their friends. A student-organized “tech fast” ...
Houston Public Media

Texans can use school vouchers for pre-K, but the pool of families who qualify is limited

Only families who already qualify to receive free public pre-K services will be able to apply for state funds under Texas’ voucher program. Final rules for Texas' private school voucher program ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
New York Post

For f–k’s sake: Study reveals which English-speaking countries use the f-word the most — and who has more fun doing so

We English speakers swear by this word. When it comes to expletives, US citizens are the most prolifically profane. Finnish researchers found that Americans drop more f-bombs than their UK ...
VentureBeat

Amazon's new AI can code for days without human help. What does that mean for software engineers?

Amazon Web Services has announced a new class of AI systems," frontier agents," that can work autonomously for hours, even days, without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious ...
Government Technology

Texas Contemplates Ethics Code for Government Use of AI

The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) has proposed a new statewide Code of Ethics for the use of artificial intelligence systems in government. The code, published in the Nov. 7 issue of ...
Futurism

Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...