Goose, Block’s open-source AI coding agent, is emerging as a free alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Code, as developers weigh offline control, rate limits, and the rising cost of AI coding tools.

Cellar Door Games has released the source code for one of indie gaming's most beloved titles, Rogue Legacy. In the "pursuit of sharing knowledge," anybody can access the code and learn from it, ...

What if your next coding assistant didn’t just help you write code but also gave you complete control over your data, tools, and workflow—all without costing a dime? Enter Dyad, a innovative open ...

Valve is handing Team Fortress 2 modders the keys to the kingdom, as long as they don't try to make any money from it. The company has added the client and server game code to the Source software ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft’s popular VS Code ...

Security researchers at Apiiro have released two free, open-source tools designed to detect and block malicious code before they are added to software projects to curb supply chain attacks. The two ...

The release was not spontaneous, nor was it a leak, as the IRS had already been considering releasing the code as a way to demonstrate a commitment to public trust and enable independent assessment of ...

For many people, learning to code is an invaluable skill that keeps them competitive in the modern, tech-driven job market—and many options exist for picking up the necessary knowledge. To make its ...

Free local AI is promising, but wasted time costs more than subscriptions. Random, unexplained edits made the code worse each iteration. Without screenshots, fixing Xcode errors became a slog. Well, ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...