Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.
Tech Xplore

New framework helps AI systems recover from mistakes and find optimal solutions

If you use consumer AI systems, you have likely experienced something like AI "brain fog": You are well into a conversation ...
ADTmag

TornadoVM 2.0 release extends Java accelerator support for NVIDIA PTX, OpenCL, and SPIR-V

TornadoVM, an open-source plug-in for OpenJDK and GraalVM that compiles and offloads Java code to accelerators such as GPUs, ...

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

B, an open-source AI coding model trained in four days on Nvidia B200 GPUs, publishing its full reinforcement-learning stack as Claude Code hype underscores the accelerating race to automate software ...
CMU School of Computer Science

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
WCBD

Half of $18B in federal funds for Minnesota-run programs may have been defrauded, official says

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Half or more of the roughly $18 billion in federal funds that supported 14 Minnesota-run programs since 2018 may have been stolen, a federal prosecutor said Thursday, describing the ...