A fast-spreading cyber scam called ClickFix is tricking users into pasting a single line of code that instantly gives hackers ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio extension guru Mads Kristensen is at it again, taking a developer request and turning it into a handy tool, which he has put out there for experimentation and feedback. This ...

Just last week, Facebook was spanked with a $500 million court judgement for non-literal infringement of software copyright. Even for Facebook, that’s a lot of money. Though less than the $4 billion ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s ruling that a plaintiff failed to establish copyright protection for its software platforms, drawing a distinction between ...

Closed-source browser extension Pie Adblock was this week accused of copying code and text from rival uBlock Origin in violation of the latter's software license – the GNU GPL version 3.… Since that ...

The legal feud between Oracle (ORCL) and Google (GOOG) over alleged copyright and patent infringement has just taken an interesting turn. Oracle amended its complaint to include alleged examples of ...

Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow marked April Fools' Day last year by making a fake announcement about the launch of a three-key "copy/paste" keyboard. It was an insider joke, a nod to the common ...

Continuing the trend in recent years of injunctions becoming harder and harder to obtain, the Northern District of California denied a motion for a preliminary injunction where the defendant has ...