The author of Bagle started distributing two new variants and the mass-mailing worm's source code last Sunday, which could trigger another summer of misery for Windows users. The Bagle worm first ...

I have always laughed at people who keep multitools–those modern Swiss army knives–in their toolbox. To me, the whole premise of a multitool is that they keep me from going to the toolbox. If I’ve got ...

Once we’ve built a computer, the next step is to develop an assembly language and then an assembler that can assemble our programs. In my previous column, we introduced the concept of the big-endian ...

With modern tools, you have to try very hard to do something stupid, because the tools (rightly) recognize you’re doing something stupid. [Andreas Karlsson] can speak to that first hand as he tried to ...

Programming in assembly language -- getting down to the direct manipulation of bytes and even bits -- is gaining in popularity, according the latest ranking by TIOBE, apparently spurred by the ...

Software conversion tool Relogix/86 from MicroAPL Ltd takes 80×86-family assembler source files and automatically re-codes them in readable, maintainable C. The new product follows the launch last ...