A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has ...

Yearslong fight over users’ right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a US nonprofit that promotes and provides legal support for free and open source ...
Nextgov

Microsoft disrupts cybercrime service offering malware disguised as legitimate software

The downstream impact of that service’s operations “has resulted in attacks against a broad range of industry sectors” in the ...

Source Code Is Not The Product: Why Commercial Open Source Works

Done right, openness creates a stronger business structure and a larger surface area for value creation than closed software.
The Chicago Maroon

USG Candidates Reflect on Rise in Election Engagement

Turnout for this spring’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) elections was the highest since before the COVID-19 pandemic, a Maroon analysis of USG data shows. Over 1,900 people—about 26 percent ...
The New York Times

Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era

Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore? By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Sigrid Jin was waiting to ...
The Verge

The AI code wars are heating up

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Writing code was a killer app for AI even ...
CBS News

Trump administration reverses sudden cuts to grants for mental health and addiction treatment programs

The Trump administration has reversed cuts to grants for mental health and addiction treatment programs that were valued at nearly $2 billion. Thousands of federal grants supporting the programs were ...
InfoQ

Anthropic Accidentally Exposes Claude Code Source via npm Source Map File

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...
VentureBeat

In the wake of Claude Code's source code leak, 5 actions enterprise security leaders should take now

Every enterprise running AI coding agents has just lost a layer of defense. On March 31, Anthropic accidentally shipped a 59.8 MB source map file inside version 2.1. ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident

Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies of its most popular product’s source code off the internet. On Tuesday, a software ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Anthropic Rushes to Limit Leak of Claude Code Source Code

Anthropic PBC is rushing to address the inadvertent release of internal source code behind Claude Code, an AI-powered assistant that has become a key moneymaker for the company. Thousands of copies of ...