A pair of security vulnerabilities discovered in the GitHub environments of two very popular open source projects from Apache and Google could be used to stealthily modify project source code, steal ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

From fine-tuning open source models to building agentic frameworks on top of them, the open source world is ripe with projects that support AI development. For several decades now, the most innovative ...

A comprehensive new study has unearthed fresh details on the extensive and troubling use of memory-unsafe code in major open source software (OSS) projects. However, the chances that fresh insight on ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws. The report, cosigned ...

Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within ...

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier ...

Open-source code runs on every computer on the planet—and keeps America’s critical infrastructure going. DARPA is worried about how well it can be trusted It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that ...