“I found a new beginning by thinking about plants and animals,” Philippa Foot said of her attempts to reinvigorate virtue ethics. Now, there’s another thing to add to her list. Now, as we accustom ...

The people who keep open-source software running and secure are being flooded with reports from an unlikely source: autonomous AI agents. Why it matters: Open-source software is the foundation of the ...

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 ...

Researchers have found that LLM-driven bug finding is not a drop-in replacement for mature static analysis pipelines. Studies comparing AI coding agents to human developers show that while AI can be ...