In November 2021, a zero-day vulnerability in a ubiquitous piece of open-source code stunned the technology industry and set ...

AI has an impact on the development of open source software in many areas. It offers opportunities, but also presents the community with new challenges. Code makes up a large proportion of the data ...

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial ...

Earlier this year, the world came within a few weeks of a disastrous cyber security failure that would have enabled bad actors to penetrate the IT systems of millions of organisations worldwide. The ...

Software supply chain attacks are exploiting a dangerous blind spot - the difference between the code developers review and ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Let’s back up for a second: Are there advantages to using AI to write code? Certainly. We ...

Today, the vast majority of codebases rely on open-source code. It is estimated that 70 to 90 percent of all software “stacks” are composed of it. In all likelihood, the vast majority of the apps on ...

Open source software has a number of benefits over commercial products, not least the fact that it can be downloaded for free. This means anyone can analyse the code and, assuming they have the right ...

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to use Google's Jules AI Agent to scan through the entire code repository of one of my projects and add a new feature. The AI took about 10 minutes. All ...