Earlier this year, a Microsoft developer realized that someone had inserted a backdoor into the code of open source utility XZ Utils, which is used in virtually all Linux operating systems. The ...

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source ...

University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand how fast-moving ...

Reddit users consistently recommend a core group of open-source apps, and they also work on Windows 11. Check them out.

Open-source software will continue its march through the enterprise technology stack, buoyed by AI and (hopefully) transformative funding solutions that address sustainability. Over the past decades, ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

Open source designs offer flexibility, yet they also create long-term dependency paths that may hide more risk than developers expect. Many companies now treat container security as the first real ...

The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced a $1.5M donation from Anthropic to support the ASF’s infrastructure, security, ...

In 2025, Daniel Stenberg, the chief maintainer of cURL, an open-source software tool that transfers data using URLs, received 181 notifications of bugs or vulnerabilities across the codebase he ...

AI has upended the foundation of open source security, and commercial open source applications must close their code to protect sensitive data.