A common practice among software developers is to use so-called code snippets from the platform Stack Overflow. A study by CISPA researcher Alfusainey Jallow now shows that this can lead to security ...

Stack Overflow announced its own generative AI initiative called OverflowAI, in which a new Visual Studio Code extension will play a central role. The main idea behind the OverflowAI program is to use ...

Copying and pasting code from the internet is one of the biggest open secrets in computer programming. And trust me, we all do it. That’s because there are question-and-answer sites like StackOverflow ...

Stack Overflow, a site where developers can ask and answer coding questions, has temporarily banned the use of text generated from ChatGPT, a chatbot released by Open AI last week. ChatGPT is based on ...

A security bug that surfaced fifteen years ago in a public post on GitHub has survived developers' attempts on its life.… Despite multiple developer warnings about the 2010 GitHub Gist containing the ...

It's no surprise that one of the biggest developer surveys in the industry this year is all about advanced AI, but it might be surprising that all the new fancy AI-powered IDEs/editors haven't dented ...

On Monday, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Overflow’s technical content with OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI assistant. However, the deal has sparked ...

The most copied StackOverflow Java code snippet of all time contains a bug. The admission comes from the author of the snippet itself, Andreas Lundblad, a Java developer at Palantir, and one of the ...

Stack Overflow’s 2023 developer survey: Are developers using AI? Your email has been sent Are developers using artificial intelligence? What are the top programming languages? Get answers to these ...

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