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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The neurons in our brain that underlie thought connect to each other using tiny branch-like structures on their surfaces ...

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 ...

‘If you want to explore your options, go to OpenMSP. Pick a commercial product, and you will automatically get all the alternatives. Also, you can build a custom report with Anthropic Claude, and ...

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 ...

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 ...