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Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository?

Documenting code can be dull, but explaining the source code of a complex project is hard for AI to get right Google has ...

Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vulnerability

Security defenders are girding themselves in response to the disclosure of a maximum-severity vulnerability disclosed ...
Ars Technica

Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

Winamp, through its Belgian owner Llama Group, posted the source for its “Legacy Player Code” on September 24 so that developers could “contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this ...
ZDNet

If ChatGPT produces AI-generated code for your app, who does it really belong to?

In one of my earlier AI and coding articles, where I looked at how ChatGPT can rewrite and improve your existing code, one of the commenters, @pbug5612, had an interesting question: Who owns the ...
MIT Technology Review

The future of open source is still very much in flux

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial ...
Nextgov

House passes SHARE IT Act aimed at custom code in government

A bill requiring federal agencies to share their custom code across the government is one step closer to becoming law. Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Source Code Harmonization and ...
InfoWorld

Why AI-generated code isn’t good enough (and how it will get better)

Large language models (LLMs) seemed to arrive in a flash. Monumental productivity gains were promised. Coding assistants flourished. Millions of multi-line code blocks were generated with a key press ...
ZDNet

I tested Meta's Code Llama with 3 AI coding challenges that ChatGPT aced - and it wasn't good

A few weeks ago, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced via Facebook that his company is open-sourcing its large language model (LLM) Code Llama, which is an artificial intelligence (AI) engine similar to ...
collider

What Happened to the 'Source Code' Sequel?

Aled Owen is a writer and filmmaker born in Carmarthen, Wales. He acted onstage from a young age and even won third place in 2012's Britain's Got Talent as part of Only Boys Aloud, a traditional Welsh ...
PCMag on MSNOpinion

ChatGPT Turns 3 and Faces Its First 'Code Red' Existential Crisis. Can It Stay on Top?

Gemini 3 has AI enthusiasts singing Google's praises. As chatbots become a dime a dozen, can OpenAI continue to stand out and ...
PC Gamer

Bill Gates has written a book about his childhood called, you guessed it, Source Code

Operating Systems Microsoft has blown the dust off the source code for a version of Bill Gates' first-ever operating system Gaming Industry The best way to innovate in gaming 'is to have good margins, ...

It’s a Code Red moment for the dominant AI players

Only a few weeks ago, an apparently stellar quarterly result from Nvidia was hailed as dispelling fears of an artificial intelligence bubble while reinforcing the company’s dominance of the chips that ...