In Ottawa, a program called TechU.me is pairing Grade 10 students with Grade 3 kids in a project to have them all learn more about coding. The project started in four schools and is now in 55.

As Ars Technica reports, someone who used the programming assistant Cursor claims that the software refused to continue spitting out code — and instead gave them a patronizing career recommendation.

I'm giving the point to DeepSeek V3 because neither of these issues its code produced would cause the program to break when run by a user and would generate the expected results.

Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise.