When Google Code, Google’s free hosting for open source projects, began shutting down in 2015, the developer community was reasonably upset. Google seems to have taken some of that criticism to heart ...

Google today announced an update to Cloud Source Repositories, its recently relaunched Git-based source code repository, that brings a significantly better search experience to the service. This new ...

The Open Source Security Foundation today launched its Malicious Packages Repository, an open-source system for collecting and publishing cross-ecosystem reports of malicious packages. Claimed to be ...

AI coding tools and autonomous agents are generating more code, pulling in more dependencies, and interacting with open source at a scale humans have never seen before," said Dan Lorenc, CEO and ...

I've been learning two methods for installing applications in Linux, compile from source, or install using a repository. The second method is much easier but I wonder what is really the suggested ...

Researchers have uncovered yet another supply chain attack targeting an open source code repository, showing that the technique, which has gained wide use in the past few years, isn’t going away any ...

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Dependency confusion is a newly discovered logic flaw in the default way software development tools pull third-party packages from public and private repositories. Attackers can take advantage of this ...

An EU platform for exchanging free and open-source code now offers more than 2,000 applications for use by public bodies in the region. The EU Open Source Observatory and Repository (Osor.eu) ...

Arabcrunch has accused major open-source repository SourceForge of blocking all access to software projects it hosts for anyone in Syria, Sudan, Iran, North Korea and Cuba. Not surprisingly, this ...

The federal IT procurement safety net may be developing some holes. Many federal developers are forgoing traditional software purchasing in favor of going directly to the source and downloading code ...