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Software development in Africa: Understanding code ownership and the risks of imitation

Code drives Africa’s tech surge, powered by a young, digital-native population and growing investment. From Lagos to Nairobi to Cape Town, teams are launching payment, health, and edtech platforms.
IEEE

Source Code Summarization in the Era of Large Language Models

Abstract: To support software developers in understanding and maintaining programs, various automatic (source) code summarization techniques have been proposed to generate a concise natural language ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Reaches Second Milestone in Open-Source AI Editing for VS Code

Microsoft reached a second milestone in its plan to make Visual Studio Code an open-source AI editor, continuing the transition it first outlined earlier this year. The latest update open sources the ...
InfoWorld

How GlassWorm wormed its way back into developers’ code — and what it says about open source security

Pervasive, evasive malware thought to have been eliminated has wormed its way back into development environments. Just a little over two weeks after GlassWorm was declared “fully contained and closed” ...
9to5Mac

Apple accidentally leaks new web App Store front-end source code, ends up on GitHub [U: Removed]

Update, November 8, 9:46 a.m. ET: The GitHub repository and its forks have been taken down. The original story follows below. Just hours after Apple launched a revamped web interface for the App Store ...
Ars Technica

Claude Code gets a web version—but it’s the new sandboxing that really matters

Anthropic has added web and mobile interfaces for Claude Code, its immensely popular command-line interface (CLI) agentic AI coding tool. The web interface appears to be well-baked at launch, but the ...
The Hacker News

F5 Breach Exposes BIG-IP Source Code — Nation-State Hackers Behind Massive Intrusion

U.S. cybersecurity company F5 on Wednesday disclosed that unidentified threat actors broke into its systems and stole files containing some of BIG-IP's source code and information related to ...
news.bloomberglaw

Athena Bitcoin Accused of Stealing ATM Source Code From AML

Athena Bitcoin Inc. engaged in a “fraudulent scheme” to steal AML Software Inc.'s computer source code used on Bitcoin ATMs, infringing copyrights and misappropriating trade secrets, AML alleged in a ...
Android Authority

Android 16 QPR1’s source code is nowhere to be found, but Google swears it’s coming

Google has delayed releasing the source code for Android 16 QPR1, worrying custom ROM developers who rely on timely AOSP (Android Open Source Project) updates. While Google typically publishes source ...
GitHub

PixelMan: Consistent Object Editing with Diffusion Models via Pixel Manipulation and Generation [AAAI-25]

The official implementation for "PixelMan: Consistent Object Editing with Diffusion Models via Pixel Manipulation and Generation", accepted to AAAI-25. The official implementation for "PixelMan: ...
HotHardware

AMD Responds To Accidental FSR 4 Source Code Leak That Revealed A Surprising Radeon Detail

Let's talk about what "open-source" means, because it can get a little confusing. Big software projects have a lot of components, and "going open-source" doesn't always mean that every single ...