Category: General
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SCANOSS Platform Powers a Series of Stellar Open Source Contributions
The beauty of the Open Source movement is truly revealed when diverse minds and talents unite to make innovations that push boundaries. And witnessing the recent contributions leveraging the SCANOSS platform, one can’t help but marvel at the collective spirit of this community. The VSCode Plugin In an age where AI-assisted coding is quickly becoming…
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Demystifying SBOMs: Why SPDX and CycloneDX Aren’t Enough
The software industry has seen a significant shift towards greater transparency and documentation, and a prime example of this trend is the increasing use of Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). SBOMs serve as critical inventory lists, documenting the various open-source software components used in a particular product or application. However, there’s a dangerous misconception permeating…
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Challenging the Downplay of Plagiarism in AI-Generated Code
The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in coding has brought about a radical shift in the way software is developed. AI tools like CoPilot and ChatGPT are becoming essential contributors to the code base in many software projects. However, a significant concern that these advancements have spawned is the risk of generating code that may…
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SCANOSS Announces Vulnerability Checking for SBOMs as a Free Service
SCANOSS, a leading provider of software composition analysis (SCA) and Open Source Intelligence, has announced the release of CPE to PURL (Package URL) relations as open source. This move will allow organizations to keep track of known vulnerabilities in any of their SBOM (Software Bills of Materials) securely, anonymously and free. Security is of the…