Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

EmeritOSS provides a new lease of life for three open-source projects. The tool adds a way to patch otherwise abandoned programs. More open-source projects will be added if there's demand. Chainguard ...

Gathering and analyzing massive data sets couldn't happen without research software. Now, thanks to a $750,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Open Source Programs Office, ...

Rochester Institute of Technology is establishing Open@RIT, an initiative dedicated to supporting all kinds of “open work,” including — but not limited to — open source software, open data, open ...

LONDON -- The Open Invention Network, an organization created to help take the pressure of patent litigation off Linux developers, has added Google to the ranks of its contributors. The move is a ...

Underpinning the digital economy is a deep foundation of open-source software, freely available for anyone to use. The majority of the world’s websites are run using Apache and Nginx, two open-source ...

Microsoft has released open-source Quantum Development Kit tools for chemistry and error correction, with VS Code integration ...

Early in my GIS career, I wanted to produce digital maps at home. Of course, I couldn't use tools I had access to at work due to licensing and cost restrictions.This led me to investigate open source ...

Symmetry Systems, the Data+AI security company, today unveiled its AI-Powered Classification taxonomy that fundamentally transforms how organizations classify and secure sensitive data, as well as new ...

Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ...

As expected, President Donald Trump's administration recently unveiled Winning the Race: AI Action Plan went all in on liberating AI companies to do what they want to make sure "that the United States ...