If the source code is leaked, it could not only lead to the copying of core technologies and imitation of products, but it ...

Smythe’s contributions have not gone unnoticed. At the end of 2023, the PSC acknowledged his work by donating $500 in his name to the Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA), highlighting how ...

Europe's Cyber Resilience Act is causing disruption in enterprise-open source relationships. A conversation with Chris ...

AfriGIS has been recognised as one of the core contributors to the GeoServer Open-Source project, marking a milestone for the ...

Vibe coding no longer means autocomplete on steroids. It now spans one-prompt app builders, deep-context agents, and local ...

Java applications include third-party dependencies as bytecode. To keep these applications secure, researchers have proposed tools to re-identify dependencies that contain known vulnerabilities. Yet, ...

This practice, which typically involves copying and reusing code blocks with minimal or no modifications across different parts of a software project, serves as a double-edged sword. On one hand, it ...

Solutions provided in Question and Answer (Q&A) websites such as Stack Overflow are regularly used in Open Source Software (OSS). However, many developers are unaware that both Stack Overflow and OSS ...