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Google says users created 100M videos using its AI filmmaking tool Flow since its May launch; Flow leverages Veo 3 and focuses on maintaining visual consistency (Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof

Google's AI Filmmaker Program Flow Helped Creators Make 100 Million Videos
Google confirmed the 100 million milestone exclusively to CNET. Here's what's coming next for Flow and its AI-assisted creators.

Google says users created 100M videos using its AI filmmaking tool Flow since its May launch; Flow leverages Veo 3 and focuses on maintaining visual consistency (Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof

Google's AI Filmmaker Program Flow Helped Creators Make 100 Million Videos
Google confirmed the 100 million milestone exclusively to CNET. Here's what's coming next for Flow and its AI-assisted creators.

Navigating the growing field of research on AI for software testing -- the taxonomy for AI-augmented software testing and an ontology-driven literature survey
Ina K. Schieferdecker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14640

Navigating the growing field of research on AI for software testing -- the taxonomy for AI-augmented software testing and an ontology-driven literature survey
In industry, software testing is the primary method to verify and validate the functionality, performance, security, usability, and so on, of software-based systems. Test automation has gained increasing attention in industry over the last decade, following decades of intense research into test automation and model-based testing. However, designing, developing, maintaining and evolving test automation is a considerable effort. Meanwhile, AI's breakthroughs in many engineering fields are opening…

Human resources software giant Workday has disclosed a data breach following a social engineering attack that compromised a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/secu

Workday confirms data breach amid wave of Salesforce-linked cyberattacks
Human resources software giant Workday has disclosed a data breach following a social engineering attack that compromised a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform.

Structural, optical, and dielectric properties of Cr-doped ZnO films via DC magnetron sputtering
Men Guo, Gilad Orr, Paul Ben Ishai, Xia Zhao, Shlomo Glasser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12642

Structural, optical, and dielectric properties of Cr-doped ZnO films via DC magnetron sputtering
Cr-doped ZnO films were fabricated by a new but feasible method, that is, annealing Cr-Zn layers deposited via DC magnetron sputtering in air. Microstructures of the films were investigated using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy, intrinsic point defects were identified via photoluminescence spectroscopy, and optical and dielectric properties were analyzed using a UV-vis spectrophotometer and dielectric spectrometer, respectively. It was found that the…

I’ve been doing an unholy amount of weeding recently and keep seeing these little spiders fleeing my progress. Many are carrying a tiny white ball and so I looked them up out of curiosity.
Apparently they are “Rabid Wolf Spiders”, which sounds like they themselves got to pick it out and sought something impressively terrifying so that humans would leave them alone. It’s certainly a misnomer since spiders cannot be rabid.
The white ball is an egg sac.

Scattered Spider hackers targeting insurance industry following retail hits, Google warns https://therecord.media/scattered-spider-targeting-insurance-sector-following-retail-attacks

Memoirs of the CP/M creator released:
“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a ‘could-have-been,’ ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how compute…

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called Digital Research to develop and market CP/M, which for years was the dominant operating system for personal microcomputers. Thousands of programs were written to run under it, and a million or more peo…

The Tech DEI Backlash -- The Changing Landscape of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering
Sonja M. Hyrynsalmi, Mary Sanchez-Gordon, Anna Szlavi, Letizia Jaccheri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14232

The Tech DEI Backlash -- The Changing Landscape of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering
Not long ago, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives were a top priority for leading software companies. However, in a short period, a wave of backlash has led many firms to re-assess their DEI strategies. Responding to this DEI backlash is crucial in academic research, especially because, currently, little scholarly research has been done on it. In this paper, therefore, we have set forth the following research question (RQ): "How have leading software companies changed their DEI s…

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Software Engineering
Dong Wang, Hanmo You, Lingwei Zhu, Kaiwei Lin, Zheng Chen, Chen Yang, Junji Yu, Zan Wang, Junjie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12483

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Software Engineering
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for sequential decision-making and has attracted growing interest across various domains, particularly following the advent of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in 2015. Simultaneously, the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has further fueled interest in integrating RL with LLMs to enable more adaptive and intelligent systems. In the field of software engineering (SE), the increasing complexity of systems and the ris…