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 ...

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University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand how fast-moving ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

Open-source software will continue its march through the enterprise technology stack, buoyed by AI and (hopefully) transformative funding solutions that address sustainability. Over the past decades, ...

Open source designs offer flexibility, yet they also create long-term dependency paths that may hide more risk than developers expect. Many companies now treat container security as the first real ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

In 2025, Daniel Stenberg, the chief maintainer of cURL, an open-source software tool that transfers data using URLs, received 181 notifications of bugs or vulnerabilities across the codebase he ...

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