Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has come clean and admitted that the worst bug he ever shipped was in... Pinball.

A coding quirk in 3D Pinball for Windows turned it into a high-performance anomaly on newer machines, using entire CPU cores ...

A bug in 3D Pinball for Windows let the game run at 5,000 FPS on faster hardware, but Microsoft eventually capped the frame ...

When Microsoft developers come to speak of their long-term work, they keep revealing exciting curiosities. So Dave Plummer ...

Voting machines use proprietary code with documented security flaws while your smartphone gets more transparency and updates ...

Action Fraud data reveals that more than 500 parking QR code scam reports were logged in just the first quarter of 2025 - more than twice the figure from the year before. As parking cons grow ...

These days Points of Sale (PoS) usually include a digital payment terminal of some description, some of which are positively ...

Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC).25 Simplified instruction sets enabled faster microprocessors. Today, 99% of all ...

It turns out that using AI to "vibe code" entire pieces of software into existence doesn't always work out that well.

Rodent droppings, raw salmon stored over sauces and two separate instances of moldy strawberries were among the health code violations found in the second half of July in Washoe County. Sixteen ...

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said nearly half of the exchange’s daily code output is now written by artificial intelligence amid a growing reliance on machine-generated development. In a Sept. 3 post ...

Kirstie Reynolds used a code at self-checkout machines in the supermarket which was created to reduce the price of rotisserie chicken to one pence. Ms Reynolds used the loophole to purchase items ...