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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.

Full story By Alfonso Maruccia, July 18, 2025, 8:22 AM 13 comments

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.

By Ivan Franco, July 14, 2025, 2:16 PM

Software AI

Study shows AI coding assistants actually slow down experienced developers

Developers took 19% longer to finish tasks using AI tools

By Skye Jacobs, July 13, 2025, 12:41 PM 17 comments

AI Google

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

By Daniel Sims, July 12, 2025, 12:18 PM

Software Hardware

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

By Alfonso Maruccia, May 14, 2025, 12:28 PM 54 comments

Tech Culture AI

University cancels publication of coding competition results over AI cheating fears

A(I) problem that isn't going away

By Rob Thubron, April 28, 2025, 9:29 AM 11 comments

Gaming Software

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

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 22, 2025, 12:31 PM

Microsoft AI

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)

By Zo Ahmed, April 13, 2025, 9:22 AM 7 comments

Industry Microsoft

More Microsoft job cuts could hit non-coding staff and middle managers

Microsoft aims to increase its engineer-to-manager ratio

By Rob Thubron, April 10, 2025, 9:57 AM

Software AI

Microsoft CTO predicts AI will generate 95% of code by 2030

Developers' roles will shift toward orchestrating AI-driven workflows and solving complex problems

By Skye Jacobs, April 3, 2025, 3:51 PM 15 comments

Software Microsoft

Bill Gates releases the source code for Microsoft's first product, Altair BASIC

A blast from the past

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 3, 2025, 10:01 AM

Software Industry

Software engineers offer $10,000 reward to anyone who helps them land six-figure jobs

Desperate times call for desperate measures

WTF?! Finding a well-paid coding job is a lot harder today than it was a few years ago, thanks in no small part to AI. Securing one that comes with a six-figure salary is even more difficult, but a couple of software engineers believe they have the answer: offering $10,000 to anyone who can get them a software developer role that pays no less than $100,000 per year.

Full story By Rob Thubron, April 3, 2025, 8:08 AM

Software AI

Y Combinator CEO says "vibe coding" is rewriting the rules of startup success

"You can just talk to the large language models and they will code entire apps"

By Skye Jacobs, March 19, 2025, 8:08 AM 13 comments

Software AI

AI coding assistant pulls a life lesson: "I won't do your work for you"

Sassy AI assistant refuses to "vibe code," lectures developer instead

By Zo Ahmed, March 16, 2025, 10:34 AM 14 comments

Software Microsoft

Microsoft is making TypeScript 10x faster with native implementation in Go

Bigger TypeScript projects should now become much more manageable in all code editors

By Alfonso Maruccia, March 13, 2025, 4:14 PM

Security Software

Google calls for industry-wide memory safety standards to enhance software security

Mountain View issues a call to arms against memory buffer issues

By Alfonso Maruccia, March 4, 2025, 3:42 PM

Gaming Software

Doom defies the impossible by running in TypeScript's type system

Trillions of lines, multiple programming languages, and a year of sweat to run Doom at an unplayable frame rate

By Cal Jeffrey, February 27, 2025, 5:49 PM

Software Industry

Millions of "dead" Social Security recipients actually caused by a COBOL coding quirk

Between 220 billion and 800 billion lines of COBOL code are still in use

By Skye Jacobs, February 26, 2025, 8:18 AM 45 comments

Software Tech Culture

People named "Null" are being punished by computers in the weirdest ways

The big picture: Having the last name "Null" is apparently the modern equivalent of being cursed. Just ask the Nulls who endure a never-ending loop of website errors, processing failures, and customer service reps telling them their accounts don't actually exist. And it's all thanks to a computer scientist who decided that, when it comes to programming, the word should be reserved for signifying an invalid or non-existent value.

Full story By Zo Ahmed, February 25, 2025, 7:46 AM 19 comments

The Web Software

JavaScript now mandatory for Google Search, Google confirms

Static pages are gone, and SEO checking tools don't seem to work anymore

By Alfonso Maruccia, January 21, 2025, 8:24 AM 16 comments

Industry AI

IT job market declines for second year in a row, but AI and cybersecurity roles remain hot

At least 2024 wasn't as bad as 2023

By Rob Thubron, January 16, 2025, 9:43 AM

Understanding Machine Code vs. Bytecode

FEATURE By Kirk Borne, January 15, 2025, 5:24 AM TechSpot Software

In software engineering, code transforms from human-readable high-level languages like Python or Java into machine-readable binary (machine code). An intermediate step, bytecode, bridges portability and execution.