Software

Boosting faith in the authenticity of open source software

Open source software—software that is freely distributed, along with its source code, so that copies, additions, or modifications can be readily made —is "everywhere," to quote the 2023 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis ...

Computer Sciences

Analyzing generative AI's copyright crisis

The recent explosion of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot have supercharged the assistance available to programmers. However, AI assistants may strip out comments embedded in code to convey copyright ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Microsoft's GitHub to add OpenAI chat functions to coding tool

Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation tools—an app called Copilot that helped software developers write computer code. Now GitHub is adding a ...

Machine learning & AI

Colombian judge uses ChatGPT in ruling

A judge in Colombia caused a stir by announcing he had used the AI chatbot ChatGPT in preparing a ruling in a children's medical rights case.

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