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How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI feature TrapC, a memory-safe version of the ...
Reuters

Musk's X to open source new algorithm in seven days

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days ...
The Verge

Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week

He open-sourced Twitter’s algorithm back in 2023, but then never updated the GitHub. He open-sourced Twitter’s algorithm back in 2023, but then never updated the GitHub. is the Verge’s weekend editor.
InfoWorld

Microsoft previews C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot

Microsoft is providing early access to C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot via the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders channel. These C++ tools allow GitHub Copilot to go beyond file searches and unlock ...
TechCrunch

Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds

Anthropic is launching Claude Code in Slack, allowing developers to delegate coding tasks directly from chat threads. The beta feature, available Monday as a research preview, builds on Anthropic’s ...
The New York Times

I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

Mr. Conte is the co-founder and chief executive of Patreon. The World Wide Web was introduced some three decades ago. Describing in 2019 the hopes that had been projected onto the internet at its ...
NBC News

Protesters disrupt Trump's rare outing to a D.C. restaurant

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rare outing to a local restaurant Tuesday night got off to a rocky start when he came face to face with protesters. Trump, accompanied by Vice President JD Vance, ...
Phys.org

From spin glasses to quantum codes: Researchers develop optimal error correction algorithm

Written for you by our author Tejasri Gururaj, edited by Gaby Clark, and fact-checked and reviewed by Robert Egan —this article is the result of careful human work. We rely on readers like you to keep ...
VentureBeat

Meet AlphaEvolve, the Google AI that writes its own code—and just saved millions in computing costs

Google DeepMind today pulled the curtain back on AlphaEvolve, an artificial-intelligence agent that can invent brand-new computer algorithms — then put them straight to work inside the company's vast ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

During a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written ...
GitHub

Microsoft C/C++ Extension appears to no longer support unofficial forks of VS Code

As of the latest update of Microsoft's C/C++ extension (v1.24.5, released April 3, 2025), use on non-Microsoft products appears to have been blocked. Upon ...