If you've been on gaming Twitter at all over the last month, you're probably aware of the massive wave of people using AI to rapidly decompile, port, and remix games. That wave of AI decomps has ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

Security researchers ran their own code inside a protected part of Windows that is meant to stay sealed off even when the rest of the computer is taken over. The protected area is a VBS enclave, an ...

Two things are true about Python: It’s the most popular programming language in the world, and it’s the most common companion language for Go developers. How do we know that? From the Developer ...

REA, short for Reverse Engineer Anything, is an open-source tool that connects AI coding agents to software analysis engines, allowing them to investigate applications without access to their original ...

Heumann's project shows how much autonomous coding depends on a test that can reject plausible-looking work. The agents scaled after byte-level checks made correctness measurable, while their attempts ...

A developer known as Maurice orchestrated 16 autonomous AI agents over three months to decompile a commercial first-person shooter into readable, compilable C++ source code. The project consumed an ...

These are unofficial versions of games, so they may sit in a legal gray area. It seems unlikely that Nintendo, for example, is particularly happy about people finding ways to play The Legend of Zelda ...

Python is primarily an interpreted language, but its execution involves both compilation and interpretation. Python code is first compiled into bytecode, which the Python Virtual Machine (PVM) then ...

Building language models in Swift/MLX. Author of a from-scratch LLM book. AI doesn't have to speak Python. Let us begin with a scene that plays out every day in thousands of companies. A data centre.