Beloved by Linux users since its original release in 1996, GIMP is one of the most famous and best-maintained open source software tools out there. This software is about as close to image editing ...

The combination of open-source software with artificial intelligence is opening up new possibilities for custom software ...

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

Coverity, a company specializing in software quality and security testing solutions, finds that open source programs tend to have fewer errors than proprietary programs.

Open-source software allows anyone to modify, enhance, or view the source code behind it. It can encourage collaboration in development.

It can take an average of over four years for vulnerabilities in open source software to be spotted, an area in the security community that needs to be addressed, researchers say.

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

Now, GitHub will empower open-source developers with these alerts too, and for free. Once enabled, GitHub directly notifies developers of leaked secrets in code.

Earlier this month, Armin Ronacher, a prominent open-source developer, was experimenting with a new code-generating tool from GitHub called Copilot when it began to produce a curiously familiar ...