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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.