GIMP has a worthy competitor in the open-source world.

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

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, ...

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

The open source database company marks 20 years with a new brand and a direct challenge to an industry selling open source while locking the door behind it ...

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 ...

Backed by Sonatype's industry-leading security research team, Sonatype Repository Firewall helped customers prevent 136,107 open source malware attacks in Q1. To explore the full findings from the Q1 ...

Microsoft has banned the developer accounts of high-profile open-source projects, leaving them unable to publish software ...

Open-source software development has followed the same cycle for decades: passionate developers create innovative tools that attract the attention of large companies. Then, as companies adopt these ...

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 ...

Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking ...

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