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 ...

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 ...

You'd think artificial intelligence (AI) is a boon for developers. After all, a recent Google survey found that 75% of programmers rely on AI. On the other hand, almost 40% report having "little or no ...

Open source software thrives on transparency and collaboration, while today’s most advanced AI coding assistants are often built as closed, proprietary systems. As generative AI becomes more ...

A recent study found that more than a third of 1,261 open source libraries had a known vulnerability and about a quarter of the downloads were tainted A study of how 31 popular open source code ...

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 ...

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 ...

Secretive legacy vendors are being challenged by VotingWorks, a tiny non-profit that publishes every line of code powering its machines. While the vendors pitched their latest voting machines in ...

BEIJING: Chinese startup DeepSeek will make its models' code publicly available, it said on Friday (Feb 21), doubling down on its commitment to open-source artificial intelligence. The company said in ...