Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working representation of what computer science was like 40-50 years ago. Now, ...

On the surface, the philosophies of open source development and current AI development appear completely opposed. Open source ...

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

Open-source data orchestration platform Kestra reaches 1.0 as organizations grapple with increasing complexity for getting ...

The new group relies on data theft and encryption, but coding errors in its ransom note routine expose weaknesses that ...

Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...

An open source software supply-chain vulnerability is an exploitable weakness in trusted software caused by a third-party, ...

Dozens of npm libraries, including a color library with over 2 million downloads a week, have been replaced with novel self-replicating credential-stealing code in yet another wave of a supply chain ...

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to use Google's Jules AI Agent to scan through the entire code repository of one of my projects and add a new feature. The AI took about 10 minutes. All ...

Since Russian troops invaded Ukraine more than three years ago, Russian technology companies and executives have been widely sanctioned for supporting the Kremlin. That includes Vladimir Kiriyenko, ...