At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license.

Going fully open source offers freedom, but real-life use reveals friction, upkeep, and unexpected limitations daily.

If Windows is your OS of choice, consider these open-source apps. There are tons of open-source apps for just about any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows. I've been using ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Generative AI may be eroding the foundation of open source software. Provenance, licensing, and reciprocity are breaking down.

As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software—as they have with open source in the ...

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a Ph.D. student in the ...

DeepSeek-OCR, a groundbreaking AI model from China, compresses text 10x by converting it into images—redefining how language ...

Walk into any office, hospital, or university today, and you’ll see just how much there is to manage: rooms, equipment, ...

Open-source tools and multi-project wafer (MPW) shuttles democratize chip design for low cost. Small circuits, both analog and digital, are accommodated by embedding them as “tiles” or “clusters” into ...

Microplastics have become an invisible but persistent threat in rivers, lakes, oceans, and even in the water we drink. These tiny plastic fragments can drift for miles, settle on the seafloor, or ...

It is not uncommon for open source licenses to change. When licenses change, users often need to re-evaluate compliance risks. Take Redis as an example. Redis is a popular key-value store whose open ...