Proposed Illinois law would classify transgender identity as form of mental illness

A new bill filed in the Illinois Senate would change state law to define transgender identity as a form of mental illness.
CNBC

American Airlines no longer lets basic economy flyers earn miles

American Airlines quietly ended the ability for customers traveling on basic economy tickets to earn miles and status. Basic economy tickets are airlines' most restrictive and already do not allow for ...
USA Today

What is universal basic income, and can it solve the affordability crisis?

As Americans struggle with the high cost of living, an old idea is getting a fresh look. In dozens of pilot programs around the country, policymakers and researchers are exploring what happens when ...
housedigest

DIY A Basic Wreath Form Using A Kitchen Essential You Already Have On Hand

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For the inexperienced crafter, pulling together a wreath for the front door might be dependent upon what's available at arts and craft stores ...
mashdigi

Microsoft resurrects historical code, with the 1976 BASIC compiler source code available on GitHub

Microsoft recently released a newreleaseA historic open source project—the BASIC assembler code co-written in 1976 for the MOS 6502 CPU by Bill Gates—represents not only Microsoft's early days in ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source Your email has been sent Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under an open ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...
Computerworld

Bill Gates’ early BASIC code for MOS 6502 released as open source

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...