Three Quarters of Dependency Vulnerability Patches Lead to Breakages, Report Finds

Minor updates break clients 94% of the time, while version upgrades cause issues 95% of the time, according to Endor Labs researchers.

6 Best Free Alternatives to Microsoft Word

If you're tired of paying for Microsoft Office features you don't use, here are free alternatives to Word you can download and start using today.

Millions of Apple Applications Were Vulnerable to CocoaPods Supply Chain Attack

The vulnerabilities have since been patched, but had quietly persisted since the CocoaPods migration in 2014.

CISA Report Finds Most Open-Source Projects Contain Memory-Unsafe Code

Analysts found that 52% of open-source projects are written in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++.

Some Open Source Software Licences are Only ‘Open-ish,’ Says Thoughtworks

A number of open source tech tools have moved towards commercial licences. Thoughtworks says this creates "big headaches" for IT, who are scrambling to maintain compliance and find replacement tools.

The 10 Best Python Courses That are Worth Taking in 2024

Today’s best Python courses offer hands-on experience with data analysis, web development, machine learning and more.

Cisco Talos: LilacSquid Threat Actor Targets Multiple Sectors Worldwide With PurpleInk Malware

Find out how the cyberespionage threat actor LilacSquid operates, and then learn how to protect your business from this security risk.

IBM’s Think 2024 News That Should Help Skills & Productivity Issues in Australia

TechRepublic interviewed IBM’s managing director for Australia about how announcements from the recent Think event could impact the tech industry in particular.

Google, Microsoft, Meta and More to Develop Open Standard for AI Chip Components in UALink Promoter Group

Notably absent from the group is NVIDIA, which has its own equivalent technology that it may not wish to share with its closest rivals.

Snowflake Arctic, a New AI LLM for Enterprise Tasks, is Coming to APAC

Data cloud company Snowflake’s Arctic is promising to provide APAC businesses with a true open source large language model they can use to train their own custom enterprise LLMs and inference more economically.