For open-source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier ...

Anthropic's Claude Code Security is available now after finding 500+ vulnerabilities: how security leaders should respond

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 surfaced 500+ high-severity vulnerabilities that survived decades of expert review. Fifteen days later, they shipped Claude Code Security. Here's what reasoning-based ...
Wired

Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible

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 ...
Reuters

Continue Launches 1.0 with Open-Source IDE Extensions and a Hub that Empowers Developers to Build and Share Custom AI Code Assistants

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 26, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- Continue, the open-source AI code assistant platform, today announced the launch of Continue 1.0, a major milestone on its journey to empower ...
SDxCentral

In Open Source Software, Security Still Needs Attention

There's a false sense of security around open source code, according to Trustwave researchers Brandon Myers and Assi Barak. Their deeper point was that open source code is prone to vulnerabilities ...
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How open source quietly won the software wars

It might be hard to imagine now, but not too long ago the idea of free software with source code that anyone can modify wasn't one with much enthusiasm behind it. How could that be safe? What about ...
SlashGear

What Does 'Open Source' Actually Mean, And How Did It Start?

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...
TechCentral

Vibe coding is transforming development – but at what cost to open source?

Vibe coding’s transformative impact on developer productivity is having adverse consequences for the open-source ecosystem, ...
Android Authority

Android 16 QPR1’s source code is nowhere to be found, but Google swears it’s coming

Google has delayed releasing the source code for Android 16 QPR1, worrying custom ROM developers who rely on timely AOSP (Android Open Source Project) updates. While Google typically publishes source ...
InfoWorld

Enterprise use of open source AI coding is changing the ROI calculation

Open source has always had issues, but the benefits outweighed the costs/risks. AI is not merely exponentially accelerating tasks, it is disproportionately increasing risks.
MMORPG

BitCraft's Server Source Code Has Been Released Under Devs' Open-Source Promise

The BitCraft Online team has begun the process of making its code open-source, a promise developer Clockwork Laboratories announced last April. In this first phase, the server source code has been ...
MMORPG

After Early Access Launch, BitCraft Will Make its Code Open-Source

After BitCraft Online’s upcoming Early Access launch, the Clockwork Labs team announced it will release the game’s code under an open-source license. The studio announced their decision in a recent ...