Discord is rebuilding its desktop app in Rust to fix its memory problem
A screenshot of an early build shows the new client using about 290MB of RAM, versus gigabytes for the current Electron app
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Anthropic manager stops coding interviews because Claude beats most candidates
Watching candidates solve a problem once predicted how they'd do on job, but AI has made the exercise nearly meaningless
AI-assisted vibe coding brings Thunderbolt 4 support to Windows 98 SE
An argument for the benefits of vibe coding
Decompilation on Steroids: Why AI Is Suddenly Cracking Open Old Software
Everything is being decompiled. GoldenEye, Halo, Photoshop, even bank mainframes: AI is prying open old code at record speed. The secret isn't just AI, it's an answer key to check its work.
Switch emulation now goes both ways: PC games on Switch and Switch games on PC
Nintendo killed one emulator, and its replacement's replacement is already here
Microsoft warns that killing VBScript could break Windows activation for businesses
VBScript is being phased out in stages after nearly 30 years as part of Windows
Microsoft unveils distraction-free Windows for developers, but anyone can replicate it
Project Zenith preloads coding tools on 64GB developer PCs, but Windows Developer Config brings the same setup to any machine
Zed is a fast, lightweight alternative to VS Code and Cursor
Built in Rust, Zed is a modern code editor focused on speed and collaboration. It supports Git, debugging, remote development, AI agents, and extensions, with native versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Zed is also part of our Essential Apps for Windows and Mac.
Developer ports Word for Windows 1.1a to modern x64 systems using original source code
Developer Justin Marshall used old Word's original source code, released by Microsoft in 2014
Sounding off: Microsoft's push to bake AI into every product and service it sells is understandably facing some backlash. Even Office is turning into a vessel for Redmond's chatbots, which may be why one developer decided to go back in time instead, releasing a wild modern port of an early Word release.
Visual Studio Code adds on-device AI dictation and sidebar chats
Visual Studio Code 1.132 introduces multilingual on-device AI dictation powered by Nemotron 3.5, alongside new sidebar chats that let developers interact with Copilot without interrupting their workflow. VS Code is one of our Essential Apps for both Windows and macOS.
AI is flooding Apple with fake bug reports, and real $200K macOS exploit got lost in the noise
AI has increased the number of helpful and bogus bug reports
Winners & losers: Generative AI has become a double-edged sword for security teams. The same technology that helps uncover and fix vulnerabilities faster than ever also makes it trivially easy to flood inboxes with dubious bug reports. That tension recently pushed Apple to change its bug bounty program in a way that ended up delaying disclosure of a genuinely serious exploit.
A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk
No single byte is going to be wasted
Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone with zero AI features
TinyRetroPad is a super-lean version of Notepad
Zig project leader says AI-generated code contributions are "invariably garbage" and will be rejected
Contributor poker has a negative value and makes real developers waste their time
This $82 USB cable hides a Wi-Fi microcontroller inside its connector
Hacknect can emulate keystrokes, execute payloads remotely, and wipe itself clean on command
Forced to vibe code at work, programmers say their skills are deteriorating
Developers complain about mental atrophy and debugging troubles
Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project, reverted after developers revolted
Microsoft is calling it a bug
OpenAI Codex brings agent AI workflows to coding tasks
OpenAI Codex is a coding agent powered by ChatGPT that helps developers build, test, and ship software. It can run tasks in parallel, generate and review code changes, and automate repeatable workflows, while working with existing tools and secure sandboxed environments.
OpenClaw creator says "vibe coding" is a slur against AI-assisted development
Peter Steinberger said using AI code editors is like learning to play the guitar
Spotify says its top engineers haven't written code in months as AI handles development
Is vibe coding actually a flex?
GPT 5.3 Codex, OpenAI's new agentic coding model, helped create itself
Anthropic's Claude Cowork tool is also built by Claude Code itself
Doom has officially been ported to earbuds, streaming at 18 fps
Making Doom run on yet another unconventional platform
JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web
From browser toy to global standard: JavaScript survived chaos, outlived Java applets, and became unstoppable
Google's CEO says "vibe coding" is reshaping who gets to write code
Sundar Pichai likens AI-assisted coding to the rise of blogging and YouTube, while warning it shouldn't touch critical systems
US "vibe coding" startups soar in value, but their AI may be powered by Chinese models
Cognition and Cursor lead a billion-dollar boom