How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...

Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...
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Medieval mega-project: The engineering marvel of the Codex Gigas

Now well over 800 years old, the Codex Gigas is one of the most impressive artifacts from the Medieval period of Europe.
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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old ...