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.

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

The mean number of open-source vulnerabilities per codebase doubled in the past year, according to the annual Black Duck Open Source Software and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report released Wednesday. The ...

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a bit of Amazon) along with their model makers of choice, ...

You also get to escape Microsoft telemetry tracking too.