InfoWorld

Open source programming tools on the rise

If the open source model has a sweet spot, it’s in programming tools. Linus Torvalds’s fabled “world domination” on the desktops of clerks or CEOs may never arrive, but it’s already here on the ...
CNET

Key open-source programming tool due for overhaul

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...
CNET

Open-source programming site expires

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...
SiliconANGLE

Modular open-sources its Mojo AI programming language’s core components

Modular Inc. today open-sourced the core components of Mojo, a programming language designed for writing artificial intelligence software. The code is available under a customized version of the ...

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...

OpenAI acquires open-source Python tooling startup Astral

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python ...
ZDNet

Programming languages: This open-source AI code generator is very good at writing in C

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have released PolyCoder, an automated code generator model that was trained on multiple programming languages, which they say is particularly good at ...
VentureBeat

Inside Microsoft’s open source program office

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Microsoft hasn’t always been a bastion of open source software (OSS) — former CEO Steve Ballmer once even went so far as ...
news.ucsc

Sloan Foundation funds two-year pilot open source program office at UC Santa Cruz

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Professor Carlos Maltzahn a $695,000 two-year grant aimed at establishing an open source program office (OSPO) that will serve the entire campus community. The ...
TechCrunch

GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices

GitHub has published its own internal guides and tools on how to go about setting up an open source program office (OSPO). According to GitHub’s recent Octoverse report, 30% of Fortune 100 companies ...
Washington Technology

Recent signs show the government is getting open source right. Is your organization?

White House and OMB initiatives are driving security concerns around open source because while it is a powerful tool, it needs to be managed effectively, our expert writes. Against a backdrop of ...