AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...
GitHub

A small implementation of Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) in pure JavaScript.

Note: this package is not 100% compatible with the CBOR specification. See the Not implemented section for more details.
InfoQ

AWS Drops Patent Infringement Protection for Video Encoding Services

AWS has removed its legal protections for customers using its video transcoding and streaming services, potentially exposing ...

IBM's $40B stock wipeout is built on a misconception: Translating COBOL isn't the same as modernizing it

Investors wiped $40 billion from IBM's market cap after Anthropic released COBOL translation tools. Analysts say the market ...
IEEE

Neural Successive Cancellation Decoder for Polar Codes Using Analog in-Memory Computing with Memristors

Abstract: We consider the use of polar codes in edge computing and communications applications, and to achieve energy efficiency, we propose implementation of neural network-based decoders for them ...
IEEE

BP-LCGCD: A Gaussian-Elimination-Free and High-Performance Decoder for Surface Codes

Abstract: Belief propagation (BP) combined with ordered statistics decoding (OSD) can achieve near-optimal logical error rates for surface codes. However, OSD ...
Hackaday

morse code decoder

When [101 Things] didn’t want to copy Morse code, he decided to build a Pi Pico system to read it for him. On the face of it, this doesn’t seem particularly hard, until you look at the practical ...