What Does 'Open Source' Actually Mean, And How Did It Start?

There is no shortage of available open source software out there. Some well-known examples are Mozilla Firefox and the Linux operating system.

The wait is over: Android 16 QPR1's source code is now available on AOSP

After a 2 month delay, Google has finally published the source code for Android 16 QPR1 to AOSP. Here's why that matters!

Apple forgot to turn something off and now the entire source code for its shiny new App store frontend is on Github

While this isn't exactly PC gaming news, Apple recently launched a new interface for its app store when viewed in a browser.
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How GlassWorm wormed its way back into developers’ code — and what it says about open source security

Weeks after being declared eradicated, GlassWorm is again infesting open source extensions using the same invisible Unicode ...
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IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It

Direct File, the Internal Revenue Service’s long-promised free tax filing software, might be at risk of being killed off by the Trump administration, but the code that made the service possible will ...

Nvidia, Google back $2.3B round for AI code editor startup Cursor

The company trained the model using a custom AI cluster. The cluster is powered partly by Ray, an open-source tool for ...