In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

What if sharing and managing files didn’t have to involve bloated software, subscription fees, or convoluted setups? Imagine a tool that’s lightweight, open source, and powerful enough to handle ...

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 ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI (GenAI) and, within it, large language models (LLMs), have taken the industry by storm. Companies around the world are evaluating and implementing ...