Often thankless, always needed. These are the projects that make the internet work as well as it does.

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 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 ...

What if the future of artificial intelligence wasn’t locked behind corporate walls, but instead, open for everyone to explore, innovate, and shape? The rise of open source AI is turning this vision ...

The advent of a popular open-source project that lets users create personal AI agents is lifting shares of a company making hobbyist computers. Shares of London-listed Raspberry Pi Holdings UK:RPI ...

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 ...

Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project of the same name, has raised €18 million (about $21 million) in a Series A round led by Accel, with participation from Bain ...

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 ...

In February, The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) initiated the Open Source Project Security Baseline (OSPS Baseline) to establish minimum security requirements for ...

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 ...