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 ...
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Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within ...
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Code-Injection Bugs Bite Google, Apache Open Source GitHub Projects

A pair of security vulnerabilities discovered in the GitHub environments of two very popular open source projects from Apache and Google could be used to stealthily modify project source code, steal ...
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Majority of Critical Open Source Projects Contain Memory Unsafe Code

More than half (52%) of critical open source projects contain code written in a memory-unsafe language, according to a new analysis by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in ...