A recent post on X (formerly Twitter) called attention to the fact that many popular open source projects, like WordPress, are run by a single person, often referred to as a Benevolent Dictator For ...

A pair of security vulnerabilities discovered in the GitHub environments of two very popular open source projects from Apache and Google could be used to stealthily modify project source code, steal ...

In an ongoing cyberattack, hackers have compromised several popular open source projects that software developers all over the world rely on. On Tuesday, cybersecurity firms StepSecurity and SafeDep ...

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on Github by helping developers easily run AI on ...

The startup behind popular Github project vLLM is out fundraising, as venture capitalists hunt for companies building tech that can make AI systems run more efficiently. Investors are about to wager ...

A North Korean cyberattack that last Monday briefly hijacked one of the most widely used open source projects on the web took weeks to carry out as part of a long-running campaign to target the code’s ...

Top open-source maintainers find that AI has suddenly become much more useful. There are still legal and 'AI slop' problems to overcome. By year's end, AI programming tools should be much more ...

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...