The source code for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and other Microsoft operating systems have been published online this week. The OS sources were leaked online as a 42.9 GB torrent file on 4chan, ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting down its traditional “rebuild” of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to focus on its development build, Stream, CentOS suggested the strategy “removes ...

GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI pair-programming service, has been out for less than a month now, but it's already wildly popular. In projects where it's enabled, GitHub states nearly 40% of code is ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

Sophisticated cyberattacks targeting a variety of open source projects, including the Trivy security-scanner project, the widely used Axios Javascript package, and now Anthropic's accidental ...

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A version of the AI coding tool in Anthropic's npm registry included a source map file, which leads to the full proprietary source code. An Anthropic employee accidentally exposed the entire ...

Attackers are finding more and more ways to post malicious projects to Hugging Face and other repositories for open source artificial intelligence (AI) models, while dodging the sites' security checks ...

The leak of Claude Code's source code from Anthropic has sent shockwaves through the AI community, raising concerns about security, strategy, and intellectual property. What makes it particularly ...

Typically when we talk about things that are “hidden” in websites, we’re referring to something malicious—data-hoovering cookies, for example, or massive amounts of malware. But not every website dev ...