Sources allege that nonprofit Ruby Central took control of some Ruby open-source projects from their maintainers without consent, after pressure from Shopify
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
GitHub offers Copilot in VS Code for free with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023
over 150 million developers can now access Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o Chris McKay / Maginative : GitHub Copilot Now Comes with VS Code for Free Tim Anderson / DEVCLASS : GitHub debuts limited Copilot...
Nym, which helps US health care providers automate the medical coding process, raised a $47M growth investment led by PSG, bringing its total raised to $92M
If all code is legacy code, then we are all maintainers. Coverager : Nym raises $47 million
Interviews with the creator and maintainers of FreeDOS, the only MS-DOS-compatible OS still under active development, about its continued relevance and more
Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going. — Two big things happened in the world of text-based disk operating systems in June 1994.
Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy
The rise in spam for everyone who accepts submissions is also a massive problem. … @bagder@mastodon.social : When people respond in negative ways on my blog, I always struggle with where the line is w...
Researchers report critical vulnerabilities in the Exim open-source mail transfer agent that allow for remote code execution; Exim is used by up to 253K servers
Remote code execution requiring no authentication fixed. 2 other RCEs remain unpatched. — https://arstechnica.com/... [image] BrianKrebs / @briankrebs@infosec.exchange : More info, from https://sec...
GitHub's private vulnerability reporting, which lets researchers confidentially disclose flaws to open-source project maintainers, hits general availability
GitHub's private vulnerability reporting, which lets researchers privately disclose security flaws to open-source project maintainers, hits general availability
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A look at Bitcoin's five maintainers scattered globally, who steward the open-source Bitcoin Core, after four turnovers in 18 months cited burnout or legal risk
Developers with power to change the cryptocurrency's software hold an unorthodox role, are elusive—and have been known to head off disaster for the coin
A look at Bitcoin's five maintainers scattered globally, who steward the open-source Bitcoin Core, after four turnovers in 18 months cited burnout or legal risk
Developers with power to change the cryptocurrency's software hold an unorthodox role, are elusive—and have been known to head off disaster for the coin