When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

You pay a premium for Photoshop, Windows, and macOS—but they wouldn't exist without free, open-source building blocks ...

AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

AI-generated computer code is rife with references to non-existent third-party libraries, creating a golden opportunity for supply-chain attacks that poison legitimate programs with malicious packages ...

Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile ...

At the second annual European Open Source Awards, Greg Kroah-Hartman received the main prize in recognition of ...

SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lineaje, the full-lifecycle software supply chain security company, today launched end-to-end capabilities that will fundamentally transform how organizations ...

Software teams today are pushing updates daily (sometimes hourly), working with bigger contributor pools, and running deployments almost non-stop. In that kind of setup, source code control tools ...

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways Feature Open source developer Geoff Huntley wrote a script that sometimes makes him nauseous. That's ...

After a series of entries about security threats from employees, I’d like to turn to something completely different: security issues relating to open source software. For those of you unfamiliar with ...