Neowin News Feed for: Code

Microsoft veteran wants to replace every single line of C/C++ code with Rust and AI

Usama Jawad — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:46:01 +0000

A Microsoft veteran has highlighted his goal to eliminate every single line of C and C++ code and replace it with Rust, through AI-assisted engineers who can write 1 million lines of code per month. Read more...

Google CodeMender can automatically fix security vulnerabilities in your code

Usama Jawad — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:26:01 +0000

Google has announced several initiatives to help security admins through AI, including the launch of a tool that can automatically develop security patches. Read more...

GitHub's claims under scrutiny over Copilot's questionable code quality metrics

Fiza Ali — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:10:01 +0000

A Romanian developer Dan Cîmpianu has challenged GitHub's claims about Copilot improving code quality, questioning the study's validity and the tool's true effectiveness. Read more...

Rabbit R1 has a huge security flaw that leaves private responses accessible to everyone

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 05:08:01 +0000

A community of Rabbit R1 developers has found a serious flaw in the company's code that allows third parties to access text prompts sent through R1, which could contain sensitive data. Read more...

Jailbreak hacker uncovers 'stolen' open-source code in voice.ai

Dean Howell — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:10:02 +0000

Jailbreak hacker @ronsoros found stolen, open-source code in voice.ai, a real-time voice synthesizer, but instead of complying with the opensource license, they are taking measures to shut him down. Read more...

Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6

Paul Hill — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 01:32:02 +0000

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6. The latest version of Visual Studio focuses on quality-of-life improvements with the AI-assisted code companion IntelliCode and Hot Reload. Read more...

Try out freeCodeCamp if you want to get into programming

Paul Hill — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 10:32:01 +0000

If you've been looking for a good resource to get started with programming check out freeCodeCamp. The service offers a range of courses covering different aspects of programming, free of charge. Read more...

Microsoft open sources CodeQL queries used in Solorigate investigation

Usama Jawad — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 07:20:01 +0000

Microsoft has open sourced the CodeQL queries that it used to identify malicious code implants from the Solorigate attack. CodeQL is an analysis engine used for code inspection, among other things. Read more...

Microsoft: Customer data was not accessed in Solorigate attack

Usama Jawad — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:26:01 +0000

Microsoft has concluded that the Solorigate attacker was only able to get access to a small number of code files for Azure, Exchange, and Intune, and those did not contain live customer data. Read more...

Rust Foundation formed to manage namesake language

Paul Hill — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:46:01 +0000

The Rust Foundation has been established to act as the steward for the increasingly popular programming language Rust. Its backers include AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. Read more...

Anyone can now contribute to Google's Fuchsia OS

Paul Hill — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:46:01 +0000

Google's letting members of the public submit code to its Fuchsia operating system repositories. The firm has been working on Fuchsia since 2016 and this move could speed up development. Read more...

Amazon launches Future Engineer program to help fill computer science jobs

Paul Hill — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:02:01 +0000

Amazon has announced that it's going to expand its Future Engineers program in order to help fill the gap in the computer science market. It plans to target kids of all ages from low-income families. Read more...

Unreal Engine code hints at next-gen console "Erebus", could be PlayStation 5

Usama Jawad — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:16:01 +0000

A few mentions of the codename "Erebus" as a platform in the latest release of Unreal Engine 4 has lead to speculation that it represents the PlayStation 5, which is rumored to be in development. Read more...

Old CPUs losing support in Linux, cutting size by 500,000 lines of code

Paul Hill — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:16:01 +0000

The Linux kernel, which is currently 20.3 million lines of code long, looks set to go on a bit of a diet by version 4.17. 500,000 lines of code will be shed thanks to architecture deprecation. Read more...

This brand new Complete 2018 Learn to Code Bundle only costs $45 in March

News Staff — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:00:01 +0000

With today's highlighted offer, why not make 2018 the year you Learn to Code with ten courses and 210+ hours of training? Grab this updated bundle for only $5 per course for the rest of March. Read more...

The newly released Linux Kernel 4.12 is huge - 795 lines of code were added every hour

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 01:44:01 +0000

The Linux Kernel was bumped to version 4.12 the other day; what's striking about this release is how big it is. 795 lines of code were being added to the release every single hour during development. Read more...

Raspberry Pi and CoderDojo joining forces to get more kids programming

Paul Hill — Sun, 28 May 2017 06:26:01 +0000

The Raspberry Pi Foundation and the CoderDojo Foundation are coming together to drastically increase the number of young people that can be reached with the latter's coding events. Read more...

New Vault7 leaks detail "Marble," used by CIA to evade detection by forensic investigators

Mina Esapa — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 21:28:01 +0000

Wikileaks has released more Vault7 data, which indicates that the CIA used a framework called "Marble" to mask the source of their malware in order to evade detection by forensic investigators. Read more...

Just a handful more Injustice 2 beta codes will be given away this weekend

Timi Cantisano — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 01:32:01 +0000

If you signed up for the Injustice 2 beta and didn't get a code - you'll have another chance this coming weekend. Although it's an extremely limited amount, it'll probably be your last shot. Read more...

Google's Project Bloks helps kids learn programming easily

Justin Luna — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 06:30:01 +0000

Google recently devised a new system to help kids learn how programming works at an early age. Dubbed 'Project Bloks,' the system immerses children into physical programming experiences. Read more...

An official Steam Authenticator app could be in the works for Windows devices

Usama Jawad — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 06:26:01 +0000

According to a piece of code found at GitHub, Valve might finally be developing a Steam Authenticator app for Windows devices. However, there has been no official statement from the company itself. Read more...

Microsoft delivering coding opportunities to young people via 'Hour of Code'

Matt Brown — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:24:01 +0000

Microsoft employees are offering a range of workshops and tutorials over the coming weeks, to support Code.org's 'Hour of Code', which aims to deliver basic coding skills to younger people. Read more...

Someone made a playable version of XCOM in Microsoft Excel

Usama Jawad — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 11:18:01 +0000

A programmer has created a playable version of XCOM in Microsoft Excel using Visual Basic for Applications. The game includes specialist classes, perks, destructible terrain and even a level editor. Read more...

Google's code base spans 2 billion lines and 86 terabytes

Luke Payne — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 06:38:01 +0000

Google's Rachel Potvin has revealed internal code statistics during the @Scale conference. The Google code base spans across 2 billion lines of code and 1 billion files, consuming terabytes of space. Read more...

Students would rather learn to code than study a foreign language, according to study

Justin Luna — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0000

In a recent research by an online store, it seems that children would prefer to learn computer programming more than learn a foreign language. However, this was seen by some as an "easy option." Read more...

An ex-Sony engineer left his name inside every PS4

Usama Jawad — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:16:01 +0000

Kazuya worked as a senior software engineer at Sony for ten years, he parted ways with the company in 2013 but before that he made sure that he left his name inside every Playstation 4. Read more...

Microsoft is about to make big changes to legacy Windows code

Brad Sams — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:53:52 +0000

Thanks to a job posting, we know Microsoft is looking to make big changes to the legacy code of Windows and may replace existing code with new frameworks such as XAML to accelerate development. Read more...

North Korea embraces Android, with its first smartphone

Paul Ferson — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:59:07 +0000

Despite having a reputation for being technologically backwards, North Korea is introducing a government-approved Android-based smartphone that may (or may not) be produced within the country, Read more...

Facebook records more than 400 billion Open Graph interactions

Paul Ferson — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:01:36 +0000

Some massive figures have arrived from the folks in Palo Alto, with a huge number of interactions recorded by the service's Open Graph API, responsible for hooking in with different apps on the site. Read more...

Bill Gates and an all-star cast of developers create a video to inspire you to code

Brad Sams — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:39:45 +0000

If you ask someone if they want to learn to code, you are met with a typical response of moans and groans about how it is a tedious and boring process that will take too long to master. Read more...

Microsoft launches Modern.IE, offers up free tools to help make you a better dev

Brad Sams — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Microsoft is again making a large push to help web developers with the launch of Modern.IE to help web developers code more efficiently and is giving away three months of access to Browser Stack. Read more...

Nintendo 64 emulator becomes available via JavaScript

Paul Ferson — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:36:07 +0000

A developer has built an emulator for the N64 console using only JavaScript, allowing you the ability to access it online. Now you can relive your 90s games using only a web browser. Read more...

TextMate 2 open-sourced under GPLv3

Paul Ferson — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:07:45 +0000

TextMate's original developer has open-sourced the project. The most recent edit to the project was an alpha build of a new version, more than two years after it was called 'largely completed'. Read more...

Microsoft physically hands over Windows 8 to OEMs

Brad Sams — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:04:36 +0000

There are several ways to deliver software to clients with secured FTPs being one option but sometimes an old fashion hand-over is warranted to celebrate the occasion. Read more...

GitHub gains $100 million in funding

Paul Ferson — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:48:40 +0000

GitHub has made the decision to switch to outside funding, gaining a cool hundred million dollars from investors to get it started on its new path. Read more...

Microsoft's Visual Studio now has Achievements

Paul Ferson — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:15:16 +0000

In a rather inventive move, a group of coders have added Achievements to Microsoft's Visual Studio application in order to draw more attention to its feature-set. Read more...

Patch Tuesday: Five critical for August 2009

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:50:52 +0000

Microsoft has issued an advanced security bulletin for August 2009 with five of the nine bulletins marked as "critical" and four are labelled as "important". These five critical patches are to patch remote code execution... Read more...

Microsoft offering $100 Technet discount till July 3

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:03:23 +0000

We've just received word that Microsoft has begun offering a discount on its Technet subscription. With Windows 7 coming out in October, this is a great time to sign up. Under this discount program, you... Read more...

Google announces Google Code Labs

Sam Symons — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:36:57 +0000

For those developers who are interested in some of what Google has to offer, you now have the chance to utilize some of their upcoming product's APIs for your own use. Google's Code... Read more...

Exploit code for Windows critical bug available

Tom Warren — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:13:16 +0000

Security researchers took 2 hours to reverse engineer yesterdays release of a critical patch for the Windows operating system. According to The New York Times, developers of the Immunity security testing tool wrote an exploit... Read more...