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 ...
TechCrunch

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 ...
Nextgov

Half of critical open source projects contain memory-unsafe code, U.S. cyber agency says

Over half of critical open source tools are underpinned by code that does not internally manage memory spillover risks, opening them up to potential exploitation by hackers, according to findings ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

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 ...
The Next Web

6 ways open-source devs can make money

The amount of money you can make from open source code depends on several factors. First of all, the popularity of your open source project plays a significant role that determines your possible ...