Back in the day it was assumed by writers that they needed to file their work with the Library of Congress to prove copyright. Not so. But if you want to prove your authorship of open source code and ...

A silhouette of a person's hand through the lines of code (File) Locked. Closed. Hidden. Private. It is the prevailing language of cybersecurity; the fewer people who know how security is handled, the ...

From simple shortcuts to expert-level configuration changes, here are 10 ways to get the most from Microsoft’s open source programming editor. Even without the oodles of extensions that make Visual ...

A new Mozilla fund, called Secure Open Source, aims to provide security audits of open-source code, following the discovery of critical security bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock in key pieces of ...

It is a universal truth of human nature that the developers who build the code should not be the ones to test it. First of all, most of them pretty much detest that task. Second, like any good ...

The Internal Revenue Service has released to the public the vast majority of the code used to develop its Direct File program, theoretically allowing anyone to build their own versions of the software ...

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