A "Hack the Future" mentor shows a young boy how to use block programming at the hacking event for kids grades 5-12 at the Tech Museum in San Jose Calif., on August 20, 2011.Audrey Whitmeyer ...

A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI ...

The "incremental-hacking cycle" suggested here will likely be familiar to anyone who's taken a hands-on approach to learning to code: Pick an open source program you're interested in, find a small ...

Owning a computer once went hand in hand with understanding exactly how it worked. That may have changed but Tom Chatfield says it's time to reclaim the past.

'Mayhem' Computer Program Wins DARPA Hacking Challenge DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge tasked teams with writing a program that can fix bugs in mere seconds.

Forty-five high school girls are tackling programming, virtuous hacking and digital forensics this week at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. The no-cost program is intended to woo ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...

In what appears to be the first successful hack of a software program using DNA, researchers say malware they incorporated into a genetic molecule allowed them to take control of a computer used ...

Computer Scientists Close In on Perfect, Hack-Proof Code Computer scientists can prove certain programs to be error-free with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems.