Betterleaks, a new open-source secrets scanner to replace Gitleaks

A new open-source tool called Betterleaks can scan directories, files, and git repositories and identify valid secrets using default or customized rules.

Sweden probes reported leak of e-government platform source code

Hackers claimed to have leaked the source code of the Swedish e-government services platform, creating widespread concerns of more incoming exploits through unpatched vulnerabilities.

Cracking the code: How a 'prediction machine' is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...

Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages

Writing for The Register last month, Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at Duckbill, expressed disbelief at the company's assertion that AI was not to blame in the February outage. "AWS would rather ...

AI is getting scary good at finding hidden software bugs - even in decades-old code

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 ...