Open source refers to software or other projects with source code that can be viewed, modified, or upgraded by anyone. Learn about the pros and cons of open source.

In fact, any government that was uncertain about a piece of technology or product should ask the vendor to open up its source codes for inspection, said Kaspersky, when asked for his advice on how ...

But instead of sinking 375 days–and $500,000–into developing a proprietary code, Pendo went in the completely opposite direction: It down­loaded an open-source software engine coded entirely ...

Background: GitHub is the defacto repository for open-source code in the world. It’s like a combination of YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit, but for programmers and the codes they produce.

The older version of xAI's chatbot, Grok 2.5, is now open source for users to download and tweak, according to Elon Musk.

Open source software is often seen as a path to reproducibility in computational science. In practice there are many obstacles, even when the code is freely available, but open source policies ...

Last year, GitHub revealed its plan to store all of its open source software in an Arctic vault as part of its Archive Program. Now the code-hosting platform is done making sure future generations ...

This issue of whether you can pull code from an open-source program under the GPLv2 keeps coming up. In the last go-around, some people argued they could take their code out of Linux.

The lines, drawn from the source code of the 1999 video game Quake III, are infamous among programmers—a combo of little tricks that add up to some pretty basic math, imprecisely.

By chaos, Jackson is referring to the avalanche of open source software code out there that’s used anonymously for some very important projects.