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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both functional and legally distinct. The partly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

FEATURE Two supply chain attacks in March infected open source tools with malware and used this access to steal secrets from ...