The Twenty-Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest – or IOCCC for short – is back again with the results of the 2025 competition. This year, one of the entrants has a unique new trick up their ...

Anthropic’s AI coding agent silently encoded proxy hostnames and Chinese timezone data into invisible Unicode characters ...

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has released the ISC Computer Science (Subject Code - 868) for the Year 2027 evaluation cycle. It is designed specifically to make ...

UTF-8 is an ASCII-preserving encoding method for Unicode (ISO 10646), the Universal Character Set (UCS). The UCS encodes most of the world's writing systems in a single character set, allowing you to ...

Nearly 2,000 WordPress websites were infected with malware that relies on Steam Community profile comments to hide command-and-control (C2) data. The threat actor used invisible Unicode characters to ...

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Instead of writing malware, hackers are already hijacking systems with words. When a computer has Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Google Jules, or other similar systems, it instantly becomes vulnerable ...

PCWorld explains how to insert special characters using Alt key codes and Microsoft Word’s Symbols library for enhanced document creation. Alt codes allow typing hundreds of symbols like copyright ...

Maybe you do truly understand one or two of these areas of coding mystery. Most of your fellow programmers are faking it. We all want to be thought competent by our peers—to have them think we know ...