The New York Times

As a Kid, Bill Gates Sneaked Out His Window at Night — to Write Code

A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...
Ars Technica

Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

Winamp, through its Belgian owner Llama Group, posted the source for its “Legacy Player Code” on September 24 so that developers could “contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this ...
ZDNet

AlexNet, the AI model that started it all, released in source code form - for all to download

There are many stories of how artificial intelligence came to take over the world, but one of the most important developments is the emergence in 2012 of AlexNet, a neural network that, for the first ...
InfoWorld

What is a compiler? How source code becomes machine code

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...
NPR

Bill Gates gets personal in his new memoir, 'Source Code'

: [EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated to include the disclosure that the Gates Foundation is a financial supporter of NPR.] SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Bill Gates has written a lot of books, but ...