The Linux Foundation introduces Akrites, a joint effort to report, fix, and disclose vulnerabilities in open source software.

Open-source apps are increasingly able to replace your subscriptions.

Engineering teams building agentic coding pipelines now have a concrete open-source alternative to managed models like Claude Fable 5 — one that runs on a single H100. The tradeoff: Cohere's North ...

Google has upgraded NotebookLM with a new reasoning engine, expanded file output options, and a more flexible research workflow, giving the AI notebook tool a broader set of capabilities for handling ...

Lightwell is a huge effort to safeguard open-source software. IBM and Red Hat are investing in this massive security initiative. We don't yet know how this subscription-based service will work. AI is ...

IBM and Red Hat are investing $5 billion into a new cybersecurity push to address vulnerabilities in open-source software. CEO Arvind Krishna said the launch of Anthropic's Mythos was the "critical ...

A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the ...

A decision by NHS England to withdraw open-source code created with UK taxpayer funds because of the risk posed by computer-hacking AI models is attracting growing backlash. Last month, Mythos, an AI ...

At OpenSearchCon Europe in Prague, I spoke with Cesar Berrospi Ramis about document processing, the art of chunking, why RAG explainability is becoming unavoidable, and what IBM's open source ...

Editor's take: Microsoft continues to tightly control the release of some of its most important pieces of legacy software. While enthusiasts and programmers are eager to see newer versions of MS-DOS ...

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...

Although Linux is the king of open-source OSes, there are options. Here you'll find a few open-source OSes to toy around with. Don't expect any of these to be viable options for daily use. When you ...