Developers can use Google and other search engines to find source code, but its not easy. Krugle, a Silicon Valley startup, claims to have come up with a better alternative—a search engine for source ...

Google has updated its Google Code Search site for finding publicly available source code, adding greater coverage and improvements in ranking and access. Launched in October 2006, Google Code Search ...

Google Inc.'s motto may be "Don't be evil," but some people in the security community are worried that the company's new code search tool could help attackers do just that. A lot of people leave code ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

Open source code for commercial software applications is ubiquitous, but so is the risk Your email has been sent It was almost exactly one year ago that experts found ...

Facepalm: Microsoft deserves kudos for open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code, shedding light on an important milestone in computing history. But the tech giant has bungled the release in a way ...