It seems a simple enough concept for anyone who’s spent some time hacking on open source code: once you release something as open source, it’s open for good. Sure the developer might decide that ...

Developers are adopting AI-powered code generators — services like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, along with open access models such as Meta’s Code Llama — at an astonishing rate. But the ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

A new batch of stolen source code for VMware ESX, the company's enterprise-level virtualization product, has been posted to the Internet. The code release was announced Sunday on Twitter by the hacker ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users’ timelines. On ...

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article appeared at KISSmetrics.com. Underneath all the beautiful images, perfect typography, and wonderfully placed calls to action lies your website source ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued for allegedly violating copyright law by reproducing open-source ...

The two-year effort to decompile Super Mario 64 wasn’t started with a Windows executable in mind. Instead, it was motivated primarily by speedrunners who wanted “to understand the game’s code better ...