Pole Przemyslaw "Psyho" Debiak won the prestigious AWTF Heuristic programming tournament. He beat not only the human participants, but also AI. He is the only human to have succeeded. A Polish ...

A human programmer won a coding competition in Tokyo. An OpenAI tool took second place. Sam Altman and OpenAI congratulated the winner on X. "I'm trying to give 100% of what I have and try to stay ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that today’s generative AI large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are just as fluent in Python, Javascript and C++ as they are in ...

In my first job out of college, I was assigned the task of rewriting the autocomplete feature of a search page. The original code, entombed in a decrepit codebase, was a nauseating monstrosity that ...

The Raspberry Pi 5’s processing capabilities have received a significant boost thanks to the EEPROM update’s enhanced overclocking support. Users can now push the device’s performance to new heights ...

The German historian Oswald Spengler considered our age the age of abstraction. Nowhere is this more apparent than in programming, where abstraction isn’t just a conceptual convenience but an absolute ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has once again announced the death of coding, but this time in front of a potentially far more influential audience. Speaking at the Word Government Summit in Dubai, Huang ...

The fundamentals of the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) interface, and its associated protocol. What made this simple, robust, chip-to-chip interface so useful for embedded system applications? How the ...

I2C is a two-wire, bidirectional bus protocol that enables effective communication between one master (or multiple masters) and one or more slave devices. It is a straightforward, half-Duplex, ...

EEPROM memory, which recently celebrated its 50th birthday, continues to defy obsolescence. Despite its age, EEPROM remains a mature, reliable, and affordable technology for many electronic systems.

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...