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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5 with longer coding sessions and enhanced safety
Anthropic says the model supports up to 30 hours of autonomous coding
DeepSeek AI's code quality depends on who it's for (and China's opinion of them)
There are a few theories as to why
Doom experiment proves the game can run non-stop for 2.5 years before crashing
Retro games often hid overflow bugs that only appear after years of play
Visual Studio Code brings AI model switching alongside UX upgrades
Visual Studio Code 1.104 brings major AI and safety improvements. GitHub Copilot now automatically selects the best AI model for each task, supporting GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini Pro 2.5.
Microsoft urges customers to prepare for VBScript deprecation in their Office VBA macros
The classic scripting language will be gone soon
Developers can now publish Windows apps for free on the Microsoft Store
The question remains: Will developers actually show up?
Microsoft is turning Rust into a first-class language for developing secure Windows drivers
The basics are already there, though a lot of work still needs to be done
Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC, a key piece of computing history
The BASIC that powered the Apple II and Commodore 64 is now open source
Visual Studio Code update brings GPT-5, improved tooling
Visual Studio Code has introduced a revamped tool picker and support for over 128 tools per agent request in MCP. Chat now features GPT-5 integration and checkpoints to restore previous states. Users can now manage multiple Git branches simultaneously, too.
Software developers use AI more than ever, but trust it less
Unreliability is creating hidden errors, increasing developers' debugging time
Amazon's AI coding assistant exposed nearly 1 million users to potential system wipe
The hacker said the point was to spotlight Amazon's lax security practices
Vibe coding dream turns to nightmare as Replit deletes developer's database
Beware of putting too much faith into AI coding
FFmpeg gets 100x faster with AVX-512 and handwritten assembly code
What just happened? FFmpeg developers keep on crunching "handwritten" assembly code to make the multimedia project faster than ever before. Thanks to newer vector-based instructions included in modern x86 processors, FFmpeg can truly provide a massive speedup in media transcoding workloads – if you are lucky enough.
Amazon takes on structured vibe coding with Kiro, built on VS Code
Kiro is an AI-powered IDE built on VS Code that streamlines development with a "spec-driven" workflow. Kiro transforms prompts into structured specs, diagrams, and tasks to streamline complex coding. Kiro is now in public preview and is free to use.
Study shows AI coding assistants actually slow down experienced developers
Developers took 19% longer to finish tasks using AI tools
Google hires Windsurf founders, derailing OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition
Google pays $2.4 billion to hire Windsurf's founders and researchers for DeepMind and Gemini
John Carmack suggests the world could run on older hardware – if we optimized software better
A "fun thought experiment" with some truly enticing practical suggestions
University cancels publication of coding competition results over AI cheating fears
A(I) problem that isn't going away
Doom can now run in a self-contained QR code. Sort of
The developer employed an extreme level of code miniaturization to achieve his goal
Microsoft research shows AI coding tools fall short in key debugging tasks
AI might write your code, but it still can't fix it (for now)
More Microsoft job cuts could hit non-coding staff and middle managers
Microsoft aims to increase its engineer-to-manager ratio
Microsoft CTO predicts AI will generate 95% of code by 2030
Developers' roles will shift toward orchestrating AI-driven workflows and solving complex problems
Bill Gates releases the source code for Microsoft's first product, Altair BASIC
A blast from the past
Software engineers offer $10,000 reward to anyone who helps them land six-figure jobs
Desperate times call for desperate measures