The US military agency responsible for developing new technologies plans to embark on an effort to rewrite significant volumes of C code by funding a new research challenge to create an automated ...

The two-year effort to decompile Super Mario 64 wasn’t started with a Windows executable in mind. Instead, it was motivated primarily by speedrunners who wanted “to understand the game’s code better ...

The Command & Conquer community is in for a treat, as EA has released the source code for four classic C&C games, as well as adding Steam Workshop support and releasing further modding tools for other ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

Zig is a popular systems-oriented language that is serious about replacing C. Here's what you need to know about Zig. The Zig programming language continues its gradual advance into the world of ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws. The report, cosigned ...

Mark Russinovich, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, says developers should avoid using C or C++ programming languages in new projects and instead use Rust because of security and ...

I have a diseased mind that only wants one thing—a proper remaster of Tiberian Sun, much like Red Alert and OG Command and Conquer got back in 2020 with the release of the Command and Conquer: ...

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The open source software that the vast majority of organizations include in their critical applications is vulnerable to exploitation from threat actors taking part in its creation. That's the message ...