Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

Every time a developer types npm install, they are placing a bet that the package they are pulling into their project is not laced with malicious code. In 2025, those odds got significantly worse.

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

Open source has long been an indispensable ingredient of modern software, relied on for its flexibility, security, transparency, customizability and cost savings. And although it still provides the ...