In 2025, something unexpected happened. The programming language most notorious for its difficulty became the go-to choice for the laziest form of programming imaginable.

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Adaptable robotic systems incorporating AI, new vision tech and low-code programming are being used to tackle frequent product changeovers and a variety of production tasks ...

Two days to a working application. Three minutes to a live hotfix. Fifty thousand lines of code with comprehensive tests.

“Testing and control sit at the center of how complex hardware is developed and deployed, but the tools supporting that work haven’t kept pace with system complexity,” said Revel founder and CEO Scott ...

Code Metal hit a $1.25B valuation after a $125M round, using AI to translate and verify legacy code for defense and other regulated systems.

Its use results in faster development, cleaner testbenches, and a modern software-oriented approach to validating FPGA and ASIC designs without replacing your existing simulator.

The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...

Investors wiped $40 billion from IBM's market cap after Anthropic released COBOL translation tools. Analysts say the market ...

Just like algae blooms in the ocean and pollen in the spring, there’s been an explosion in the past year or two of new software, related tools and lingo from the IT and mainstream/consumer side. Some ...