Opinionated Lists for an Overwhelming Year

List making is ultimately a forward, affirmative act — the wish to impose order on a chaotic world. In that spirit, we ...
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Microsoft previews C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot

Public preview of Microsoft’s C++ tools for the AI coding assistant are available in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.
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I ditched VS Code for the open-source VSCodium, and I have no regrets

VS Code is one of the most popular open-source (mostly) applications out there, and for good reason: It does everything you ...

How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...

Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...
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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...