AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...
JD Supra

Recent Inquiry from Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Puts Spotlight on Security Concerns About Open Source Software

On Dec. 17, 2025, U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Sean Cairncross, the National Cyber Director, concerning what he called the “critical ...
Dark Reading

CISA Flags Memory-Unsafe Code in Major Open Source Projects

A comprehensive new study has unearthed fresh details on the extensive and troubling use of memory-unsafe code in major open source software (OSS) projects. However, the chances that fresh insight on ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Forked Again: AWS's Kiro Is Latest AI Assistant Based on VS Code

Amazon Web Services (AWS) last week announced an agentic AI IDE called Kiro, adding to a growing camp of AI coding assistants based on Microsoft's ubiquitous open-source based Visual Studio Code ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Delays VS Code May 2025 Release; Pushes Ahead on Copilot Chat Open Sourcing

Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...