Computer science was once a 'golden ticket' — now it's seeing the biggest enrollment drop of any major in 6 years. What students are choosing instead

Nobel Prize–winning economist Simon Johnson said AI has "substantially wiped out" coding as a reliable source of opportunity.
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Choosing between AP CSP and CSA made easy

AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) and AP Computer Science A (CSA) both introduce students to computing, but in very different ways. CSP emphasizes broad computing concepts, creativity, and societal ...

Accused attacker at Washington media dinner is a tutor and computer engineer from California

The California man arrested in the shooting incident at the media dinner in Washington is a highly educated tutor and amateur ...
PBS

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism

The Associated Press said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspaper journalism that sustained the ...
Ars Technica

Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks

Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop. The company has announced that Claude Code (and its more ...
Inklings

Computer science department makes changes in accordance with AI

ChatGPT was released almost four years ago, and with it came… panic. AI will undoubtedly alter the workforce, media and education. And after four years of living with it, Staples is only beginning to ...
American Enterprise Institute

Should You Still Major in Computer Science?

News outlets are starting to declare “peak computer science.” Over the past 15 years, the popularity of the computer science (CS) major surged so much that universities turned away CS hopefuls. Nearly ...
Associated Press

AP to provide Kalshi its gold standard elections data ahead of primaries

The Associated Press today announced that it will provide its U.S. elections results to Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market. AP will provide Kalshi with its vote count data and race calls ...
Popular Science

Computer run on human brain cells learned to play ‘Doom’

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TechCrunch

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...
TechSpot

Computer science enrollment falls across the University of California for the first time in 20 years

Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...