Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

Coinbase layer-2 network Base has announced it has open-sourced its code repositories and smart contracts to increase transparency and accountability while simultaneously allowing public contributions ...

Weeks after being declared eradicated, GlassWorm is again infesting open source extensions using the same invisible Unicode and blockchain C2 tricks.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Friday said he will make tweet recommendation codes open source by the end of March. Musk described the platform’s algorithm as "overly complex" and "not fully understood ...

Eric S. Raymond, one of the foundational figures behind the Open Source Initiative, has called for a wholesale rejection of codes of conduct in open-source communities, characterising them as ...

It is a universal truth of human nature that the developers who build the code should not be the ones to test it. First of all, most of them pretty much detest that task. Second, like any good ...

Password management company Dashlane has made its mobile app code available on GitHub for public perusal, a first step it says in a broader push to make its platform more transparent. The Dashlane ...

Chainguard Inc., a startup that helps developers ensure the open-source code they use is secure, has raised $356 million in fresh funding. The Series D round comes less than a year after the company’s ...

Some companies are being irresponsible in the way they use open-source software, with a significant number downloading vulnerable versions even years after they have led to devastating hacks, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Add Ohloh.net to the expanding list of companies working to make it easier for software developers and businesses to find just the right piece of open source code or entire ...