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XDA Developers on MSN

This IDE is all of the things you love about VS Code, but without Microsoft

Discover VSCodium, the community-driven, open-source version of VS Code that prioritizes privacy and freedom. Enjoy the same ...
ZDNet

How fake security reports are swamping open-source projects, thanks to AI

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 ...
Computer Weekly

Open source security and sustainability remain unsolved problem

While software bills of materials offer some transparency over software components, they don’t solve the imbalance between ...
Ars Technica

Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities

"A threshold has been reached. We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time," wrote Daniel Stenberg, original author and lead of the curl project, on ...
The Register on MSN

Python dethrones JavaScript as the most-used language on GitHub

Yearly report finds explosion of GenAI projects, new users from outside the coding community responsible for boost There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most ...
InfoWorld

Understand Python’s new lock file format

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when. Python Enhancement Proposal ...