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 ...

If combating attacks and hijackings of legitimate software on open source registries like npm weren’t challenging enough, app makers are increasingly experiencing the consequences of software ...

You'd think artificial intelligence (AI) is a boon for developers. After all, a recent Google survey found that 75% of programmers rely on AI. On the other hand, almost 40% report having "little or no ...

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 ...

Two months after Rapid7 discovered the hole in the Git service, the project maintainer has yet to patch the bug.

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals. “The phrase we use is ‘code is the new ...

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst ...