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Apr 22, 2026

Fake or News: LLMs Protect Each Other, Google Predicts Floods, and GitHub Copilot Loves COBOL - Niels Leenheer

Are AI models secretly protecting each other from being shut down? The line between tech reality and developer satire is blurring. Test your radar in this trivia game.

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#1 about 1 min

Guessing tech headlines about video formats and smart glasses

Exploring the validity of news regarding new video formats, real-time coaching via smart glasses, and chips with embedded blockchain technology.

#2 about 1 min

Evaluating stories on flash flood predictions and graphics cards

Reviewing the reality of stories involving predictive flash floods, shoe companies pivoting to compute, and massive power requirements for graphics cards.

#3 about 1 min

Fact-checking social security breaches and Copilot legacy code modes

Analyzing rumors surrounding compromised social security numbers and a new legacy maintenance mode in GitHub Copilot for older programming languages.

#4 about 2 min

Assessing news covering Bluetooth location tracking and AI models

Reviewing headlines that cover warship location tracking, scheming AI systems, Zoom meeting notes, and an incriminating Instagram handle.

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4:10 min

Evaluating technology headlines in a fake news game

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7:49 min

Evaluating technology headlines in a fake news trivia game

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

8:28 min

Testing tech headlines in fake or news

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

3:31 min

Testing technology knowledge with real and generated headlines

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

5:23 min

Guessing bizarre tech headlines in the Fake or News game

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4:42 min

Analyzing technology trends through a fake news quiz

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Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:00–13:00

Stage 9

RoboCoders: Judgment Day: AI-Assisted Engineering Applied - The Battle of Agents

Baruch Sadogursky, Viktor Gamov

Baruch Sadogursky
Viktor Gamov
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 10:20–10:50

Stage 4

rm -rf: Horror Stories From Unsandboxed AI Agents (and How Docker Fixes This)

Rishab Kumar

Staff Developer Evangelist @ Twilio

Rishab Kumar
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 5

The Things Your AI Isn't Telling You

Desmond Lamptey

Lead Software Engineer at Capital One

Desmond Lamptey
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 1

Closing the autonomous software development loop

Justin Halsall, Scott Voigt

Justin Halsall
Scott Voigt
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00

Mainstage

Our Brains in the AI Era

Cassidy Williams

Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, GitHub

Cassidy Williams
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 1

Honey, look! I vibe-coded an OS!

Ian Smith

CTO of LYOS

Ian Smith

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