The Android operating system is a step closer to being embedded in consumer electronics, after the company behind the MIPS processor architecture open-sourced the code for its Android port. MIPS ...

In brief: Malicious actors usually have to exploit bugs in an application or operating system, but security researchers have found a flaw that allows them to embed malware right into the source code, ...

QNX Neutrino project will let people see and tinker with the embedded operating system's source code--but not ship products with it. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Throughout 2000, LinuxDevices.com conducted a survey of developers to try to understand their motivations for using Linux in embedded systems and intelligent devices. Some of the most interesting ...

TOKYO -- A string of characters suggestive of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was temporarily embedded in the source code of the University of Tokyo graduate school's website, possibly restricting ...

Microsoft announced today that the SolarWinds hackers gained access to source code for a limited number of Azure, Intune, and Exchange components. In December, it was disclosed that the SolarWinds' ...

Continuing its practice of sharing internally developed software, Facebook has released as open source RocksDB, the embedded data store the company developed to serve content to its 1.2 billion users.

Key Takeaways: x402 is a new payment protocol built on Base, designed to embed crypto payments into web requests. The name comes from HTTP 402: Payment Required, a code unused since the 1990s.The ...

Currently in private beta, the GPT-5-powered security agent scans, reasons, and patches software like a real researcher, aiming to embed AI-driven defense into the development workflow.