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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The move will help accelerate innovation from developers, while making Ascend chips easier to use, Huawei’s Eric Xu says.

It seems a simple enough concept for anyone who’s spent some time hacking on open source code: once you release something as open source, it’s open for good. Sure the developer might de… ...

DeepSeek goes beyond “open weights” AI with plans for source code release Chinese AI firm says daily releases will reveal "code that moved our tiny moonshot forward." ...