Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven code generation tools are increasingly used throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate coding tasks. However, the security of ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

If there’s one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it’s how they feel like magic until they don’t. One moment, you’re watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. JetBrains has detailed its eighth annual Python Developers Survey. This survey is conducted as a collaborative ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

Only twice in TIOBE Programming Index history has a language commanded such a high percentage of developers’ interest. Python has reached a 25.35% share of community interest in programming languages ...

JetBrains has officially open-sourced Mellum, a purpose-built 4-billion-parameter language model tailored for software development tasks. Developed from the ground up, Mellum reflects JetBrains’ ...

Big tech companies, from Meta to Microsoft, are using AI to write and review code. At Meta’s LlamaCon conference this week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated that AI will take over half of the company’s ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...