The SolarWinds & Log4j hacks showed open source vulnerabilities. A study looks at the open source community’s efforts to “credit-rate” risk.

A succinct definition of open source software is that it’s software whose underlying code can be examined, altered, and redistributed.

Open source software is often seen as a path to reproducibility in computational science. In practice there are many obstacles, even when the code is freely available, but open source policies ...

The free-software movement was born from one frustrated engineer’s simple, rigid philosophy: for the good of the world, all code should be open, without restriction or commercial intervention.

When you buy software, you probably trust that you're getting a secure product that runs well. This faith may come from the fact that the source code - the digital DNA that tells the program how ...

By archiving all software source code, Software Heritage ensures its long term availability and builds a common, shared, open infrastructure at the service of academia, cultural heritage, industry, ...

Whether directly or indirectly, nearly all organizations depend on software created by the open-source community. In fact, an incredible 97% of applications incorporate open-source code, and 90% ...

Open code software giant Elastic to buy Israeli startup, open Tel Aviv R&D site Cybersecurity startup Build.security was established just last year, will serve as key location for engineering and ...

From ethical concerns, a desire for more money, and simple obnoxiousness, a handful of developers are ruining open-source for everyone.

GitHub has put the final touches on its Arctic Code Vault with a nearly 1.5 tonne steel box covered in AI-generated etchings that aim to entice future generations to explore it. GitHub initially ...