Boing Boing on MSNOpinion

Stack Overflow is dead, and its toxic community helped kill it

For over a decade, Stack Overflow was the place where programmers went to find answers. If you Googled a coding error, you'd ...
Futurism on MSN

AI has basically killed Stack Overflow

"People were just happy to finally have a tool that didn't tell them their questions were stupid." The post AI Has Basically ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Tool to Lead Stack Overflow's New 'OverflowAI' Effort

Stack Overflow announced its own generative AI initiative called OverflowAI, in which a new Visual Studio Code extension will play a central role. The main idea behind the OverflowAI program is to use ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Stack Overflow Dev Survey: Visual Studio, VS Code Hold Off AI IDEs to Remain on Top

It's no surprise that one of the biggest developer surveys in the industry this year is all about advanced AI, but it might be surprising that all the new fancy AI-powered IDEs/editors haven't dented ...
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Outdated code snippets from Stack Overflow jeopardise software security

A common practice among software developers is to use so-called code snippets from the platform Stack Overflow. A study by CISPA researcher Alfusainey Jallow now shows that this can lead to security ...
The Hacker News

Critical Node.js Vulnerability Can Cause Server Crashes via async_hooks Stack Overflow

Node.js released updates fixing a critical DoS flaw caused by async_hooks stack crashes, tracked as CVE-2025-59466, impacting ...