How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company

Who needs more than two employees when artificial intelligence can do so many corporate tasks? It’s super efficient — and a ...

828 running out of phone numbers: new area code is coming

Mar. 25—8-2-8 has become synonymous with Western North Carolina. But soon, there could be a new area code to identify the region, as well. Available phone numbers with the 828 area code are running ...
Design News

How I Built a Universal Push-Button Module Using Claude Code

Within three years, no embedded software developer is going to be writing code. I know it sounds like another one of my controversial statements. But I recently used Claude Code to write the best ...
Wired

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...
GeekWire

Survey: Two-thirds of AI-native startups let AI write most of their code

[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Marcelo Calbucci, a longtime Seattle tech and startup community leader.] This month, I ran a survey with early-stage founders from Seattle-based Foundations about ...
EDN

How much help are free AI tools for electronic design?

For the past couple of years, I’ve been using AI to assist in the design of my hardware and firmware projects. The experience has generally been good, even though the outcome isn’t always useful. So, ...
Entrepreneur

AI Is Already Writing About 30% of Code at Microsoft and Google. Here’s What It Means for Software Engineers.

Big tech companies, from Meta to Microsoft, are using AI to write and review code. At Meta’s LlamaCon conference this week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated that AI will take over half of the company’s ...
InfoWorld

Review: Gemini Code Assist is good at coding

Given that Microsoft/GitHub/Azure and Amazon/AWS offer AI coding assistants, namely GitHub Copilot and Amazon Q Developer, which work as add-ins to Visual Studio Code and other IDEs, it was inevitable ...
Bleeping Computer

CISA: Most critical open source projects not using memory safe code

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 ...
EDN

An Easy solution to Compile the Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ Code using VSCode and Pico SDK in Windows

Raspberry Pi Pico is a cute piece of hardware. It has a powerful dual-core RP2040 microcontroller that offers 2MB (up to 16MB) Flash and 264K SRAM memories. But what truly sets the Pico apart is its ...