Imagine designing a super-fun game which you can play because you possess the secret rules to it, a.k.a. the code. Now, what ...

Open source repositories — such as Python's PyPI, the Maven Java repository, and the Node Package Manager (npm) for JavaScript — typically have a skeleton crew of engineers and volunteers to manage ...

Earlier this year, a Microsoft developer realized that someone had inserted a backdoor into the code of open source utility XZ Utils, which is used in virtually all Linux operating systems. The ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Nowadays, there is a universe of open-source projects consisting of code, libraries and ...

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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 ...

Open source code for commercial software applications is ubiquitous, but so is the risk Your email has been sent It was almost exactly one year ago that experts found ...

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 ...