Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have driven remote code execution for decades and keep appearing in critical network ...

Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and this week we’ve got something even more arcane: the results of the 29th ...

The Twenty-Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest – or IOCCC for short – is back again with the results of the 2025 competition. This year, one of the entrants has a unique new trick up their ...

AI coding benchmark MirrorCode published its full results June 26, showing Claude Opus 4.7 autonomously rebuilt a 60,000-line interpreter and scored 56% overall — completing tasks that take human ...

Linus Akesson's A Mind is Born, a chiptune and graphic demo generated by just 256 bytes of code, is famous for its incredible brevity and spookily good output. All rise for wake up! by DESiRE, which ...

A developer reverse-engineering Anthropic's Claude Code binary discovered on June 30, 2026, that the tool had been silently encoding hidden signals into its AI system prompts for at least three months ...

Craneware PLC (AIM:CRW) and Cerillion PLC (AIM:CER) are trading at valuations last seen between 2010 and 2014, and Peel Hunt reckons the market has confused two very different things: coding and ...

Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer comes from an era at Microsoft when Notepad handled the simple stuff, and WordPad ...

Dave Plummer rebuilt Notepad in 2.5KB using only what Windows already ships, exposing how bloated Windows 11's own Notepad ...

The leaked bytes are the useful part. Squid reuses freed memory buffers without zeroing them, so a 4KB buffer that recently ...

Structured specifications help AI coding agents build what engineers actually need by capturing intent before code generation ...