A department builds something new (all too often something that already exists) puts the code in a public GitHub repository, ...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Friday said he will make tweet recommendation codes open source by the end of March. Musk described the platform’s algorithm as "overly complex" and "not fully understood ...

The open-source code repository Codeberg has blamed the far right for a recent campaign of abuse and harassment across its systems. “Projects advocating tolerance and equal rights” were subjected to ...

The Open Source Security Foundation today launched its Malicious Packages Repository, an open-source system for collecting and publishing cross-ecosystem reports of malicious packages. Claimed to be ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

Publicly available code has fewer security holes because more programmers work on the free programs than the number writing proprietary programs for commercial firms. Open source software, freely ...

It is a universal truth of human nature that the developers who build the code should not be the ones to test it. First of all, most of them pretty much detest that task. Second, like any good ...

IT organizations that feel safe from open source licensing violations might be wise to check their code, as open source components are rapidly seeping into applications by way of offshore and in-house ...

Microsoft announced today that it has open sourced the code for the first three Zork text adventure games along with their ...

Endor Labs, a software management platform that helps developers deal with software code dependencies, launched out of stealth mode today with $25 million in seed funding to help enterprise developers ...