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How software gets built: developer tools, engineering practice, platforms and the open-source economy, from The Silicon Ledger.
Martin Reynolds, field CTO at Harness, discusses how AI coding agents are overwhelming engineering teams with pull requests and why the company rebuilt its repository infrastructure to manage the deluge.
An anonymous security researcher has made available a complete source code reconstruction of Stuxnet, the notorious malware that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities and became the first software worm known to inflict direct physical damage.
As developers embrace AI coding tools at unprecedented rates, the traditional code review process has become overwhelmed. Two industry experts will debate whether automated policy enforcement can restore quality without relying on more artificial intelligence.
The Windows-on-Linux compatibility layer Bottles has released an experimental ARM64 build, bringing support for running Windows software on ARM-based devices through a new cpak package format.
David McJannet, who led HashiCorp through its cloud infrastructure boom, is now founding Dome Systems to solve what he sees as the central challenge of the AI agent era: giving enterprises the controls they need to safely deploy autonomous applications.
A dedicated team has completed the full decompilation of Nintendo's 2001 GameCube fighting game into C code, marking a major milestone for game preservation and opening doors to future modding efforts.
A community-created tool combines existing mods to bring Nvidia's latest upscaling and frame-generation tech to RTX 20, 30, and 40-series cards, leveraging AMD's FSR 3.1 for older hardware.
Autodafe's new plugin harnesses MAME's component-level emulation to recreate legendary drum machines and synthesizers—no commercial license required, though you'll need to supply your own ROM files.
