This is the first of two From the Experts articles examining issues related to computer source code discovery. The advancement of computer-related technologies and their introduction to the consumer ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

Editor's take: Microsoft continues to tightly control the release of some of its most important pieces of legacy software. While enthusiasts and programmers are eager to see newer versions of MS-DOS ...

What we know so far: Anthropic is facing renewed scrutiny from the AI and security communities after internal source code for Claude Code – its fast-growing agentic development environment – was ...

A decision by NHS England to withdraw open-source code created with UK taxpayer funds because of the risk posed by computer-hacking AI models is attracting growing backlash. Last month, Mythos, an AI ...

Sophisticated cyberattacks targeting a variety of open source projects, including the Trivy security-scanner project, the widely used Axios Javascript package, and now Anthropic's accidental ...

A version of the AI coding tool in Anthropic's npm registry included a source map file, which leads to the full proprietary source code. An Anthropic employee accidentally exposed the entire ...

In vacating the conviction of former Goldman Sachs computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov under federal espionage and stolen property laws, a Second Circuit panel said source code was not a "stolen good ...

PC-DOS 1.00 would lead to Microsoft becoming computing's top dog Microsoft continues to embrace open source. The source code and annotations provide insight into the operating system's earliest days.