Bill Gates showed «the coolest code» he created for Microsoft
On the eve of Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates published the code that eventually led to the company’s success. The full sample is available for study.
«OpenAI is in trouble»: DeepSeek V3-0324 gets improved programming and math capabilities
Update 0324 of the DeepSeek V3 language model added new parameters, as well as additional features for writing code and solving mathematical problems.
«20-30% of the code, but not 90%»: IBM CEO says artificial intelligence will not replace programmers
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna believes that programmers will simply be able to do more work. Artificial intelligence will not create more than a third of the code.
GitHub has taught Copilot to generate code from photos and understand voice commands
GitHub has announced a number of updates for Copilot, as well as a glimpse into the «agent-based future of its AI-powered programming assistant.
The programmer created a game «Snake» on subpixels of the monitor
Developer Patrick Gillespie created, possibly, the smallest version of the classic game “Snake.” This version uses individual subpixels of an LCD monitor.
Computing in memory, without a processor: scientists have created a Python interpreter
Researchers at the Israeli Technion Institute have developed a software package for performing in-memory operations without the participation of the processor, using Python.
A quarter of Google’s new code is written by artificial intelligence, — Sundar Pichai
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says Google relies on artificial intelligence to create a quarter of its new code.
Telegram employs mostly Ukrainian programmers — they won a professional competition
Referring to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, the Financial Times writes that the platform is used mostly by Ukrainian coders.
Code that comes to life: Google models the emergence of life in the digital environment
Finally, Google has created something that multiplies faster than fake news on the Internet.
Programming legend Grace Hopper’s lecture could not be reproduced in the US — no device was found
In the archives of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), there are magnetic tapes that contain a landmark piece of programming history — a lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper. However, there is a problem: The NSA has no way to reproduce it.
Huawei has announced its own programming language Cangjie
During the HDC 2024 developer conference, Huawei introduced its own Cangjie programming language. This language is positioned as a next-generation solution for smart applications for all scenarios.
The 1969 computer game Lunar Lander with text output received a patch from a retired programmer
Retired programmer Martin C. Martin discovered a bug in the original physics code of the 1969 computer game Lunar Lander. Created by then 17-year-old high school student Jim Storer, this «prototype» game only displayed textual status updates on a teletype. In fact, the game is a space simulator.
Technology of the future. Rust tops the list of programming languages in terms of popularity
The Rust programming language is becoming increasingly popular among developers: although it is only 14th in terms of prevalence, it ranks 1st in terms of popularity growth.
VBScript — RIP. Microsoft buries 27-year-old programming language
Microsoft is discontinuing support for VBScript for Windows.
It’s official: GitHub Copilot Chat is now available on iOS and Android
Microsoft-owned GitHub has released Copilot Chat on iOS and Android.
44% of developers use two programming languages at work
44% of developers most often use two programming languages in their work.
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