AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...

APT28 hackers deploy customized variant of Covenant open-source tool

The Russian state-sponsored APT28 threat group is using a custom variant of the open-source Covenant post-exploitation framework for long-term espionage operations.

Andrej Karpathy's new open source 'autoresearch' lets you run hundreds of AI experiments a night — with revolutionary implications

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...
PCMag

It Took Me Just 2 Hours to Vibe Code a Mass Surveillance Site With OpenAI's Codex

With zero coding skills, and in a disturbingly short time, I was able to assemble camera feeds from around the world into a ...
PCMag

Phony Claude Code Install Guides Trick Vibe Coders Into Installing Malware

Dubbed InstallFix by Push Security, the scheme inserts instructions to download malware during the Claude Code install process on cloned websites.
IEEE

A Method for Converting Oracle Stored Procedures to Java Code

Abstract: Based on the strong demand for independent control and the improvement of domestic databases, database localization has become an inevitable trend. In the process of migrating Oracle ...
GitHub

attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you.

The app, called Nearby Glasses, has one sole purpose: Look for smart glasses nearby and warn you.
InfoQ

Platform Engineering Labs Expands formae with Multi-Cloud Support

Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, adding beta support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Oracle ...
IEEE

Cross-Language Code Development with Generative AI: A Source-to-Source Translation Perspective

Abstract: Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, there is growing interest around the world on exploring the capabilities of generative AI tools. In addition to text, image, audio, and video ...
InfoWorld

JetBrains introduces Java to Kotlin converter for Visual Studio Code

Extension that converts individual Java files to Kotlin code aims to ease the transition to Kotlin for Java developers.
GitHub

The open-source voice synthesis studio.

Voicebox is a local-first voice cloning studio with DAW-like features for professional voice synthesis. Think of it as a local, free and open-source alternative to ElevenLabs — download models, clone ...
Engadget

The final trailer for Project Hail Mary is here and it's an emotional ride

Amazon MGM just released the final trailer for its upcoming film starring Ryan Gosling, Project Hail Mary, and it provides our first good look at his five-legged alien co-star, Rocky. The movie adapts ...