Sauce Labs exposes some developers’ risky habits

A survey by Sauce Labs of 500 US-based developers has put the spotlight on some concerning practices.

One alarming discovery was the tendency of developers to push code to production without adequate testing. 67 percent of respondents admitted to this practice, jeopardising software quality, user experience, and system stability.

Additionally, 68 percent confessed to merging their own pull requests without review—raising concerns about potential security...

3 October 2023 | Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT-generated code is often insecure

OpenAI's large language model, ChatGPT, is capable of generating code but produces insecure code without alerting users to its inadequacies, according to research by computer scientists from the Université du Québec in Canada.

The researchers asked ChatGPT to generate 21 programs in five programming languages to illustrate specific security vulnerabilities such as memory corruption, denial of service, and improperly implemented cryptography.

ChatGPT produced only five...

21 April 2023 | Development Tools