Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...

A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Wants to Fix It.

These start-ups, including Axiom Math and Harmonic, both in Palo Alto, Calif., and Logical Intelligence in San Francisco, hope to create A.I. systems that can automatically verify computer code in ...
TechAnnouncer

Discover the Best Free Python Course Recommendations from Reddit

JetBrains, the company behind the popular PyCharm IDE, offers a free introductory Python course. This is a pretty neat option if you like learning by doing, especially within a professional coding ...

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

Anthropic, a smaller rival started by OpenAI defectors, has found runaway success with its programming agent, Claude Code.

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

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...
InfoWorld

What I learned using Claude Sonnet to migrate Python to Rust

Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.
IEEE

Python Source Code Vulnerability Detection Based on CodeBERT Language Model

Abstract: Programming language source code vulnerability mining is crucial to improving the security of software systems, but current research is mostly focused on the C language field, with little ...
PC Gamer

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

Projects like Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...