On the surface, the philosophies of open source development and current AI development appear completely opposed. Open source ...

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

Foundations say billions of downloads rely on registries running on fumes – and someone's gotta pay the bills The Open Source ...

Elon Musk’s X has open-sourced its “For You” timeline recommendation code, aiming for transparency, community collaboration, ...

Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

Big tech loves to make money, and leeching off the work of open source has become a fantastic earner for them. No research, no significant development ...

While software bills of materials offer some transparency over software components, they don’t solve the imbalance between ...

SonarSource SA, which does business as Sonar, said today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tidelift Inc., a provider of services to manage open-source components. Terms weren’t ...

The XZ attack is a backdoor that reminds us our biggest open-source security threats are from decades of unlearned lessons.

A recent study found that more than a third of 1,261 open source libraries had a known vulnerability and about a quarter of the downloads were tainted A study of how 31 popular open source code ...

Dozens of npm libraries, including a color library with over 2 million downloads a week, have been replaced with novel ...