The open-source project Babel is nearly out of cash and employees fear for their jobs, one insider said. Its plea for money sparked controversy when its creator, who no longer works there, made ...

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the OpenJS Foundation, which back multiple JavaScript-based open source software (OSS) projects, have warned that the attempted social engineering ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

The JQuery Foundation is morphing into the JS Foundation to provide mentoring and technical governance for a multitude of JavaScript-based open source development projects. The JS Foundation is a ...

The open source software that the vast majority of organizations include in their critical applications is vulnerable to exploitation from threat actors taking part in its creation. That's the message ...

A recent analysis of 1.2 million open source software projects primarily across four ecosystems found that only about 11 per cent of projects were actively maintained. In its Ninth Annual State of the ...

Facebook last week launched its Incubator on GitHub in order to distribute its own open source software projects. Incubator serves as a testing ground for new open source projects from Facebook, which ...

An open-source software project aims to give software developers a simple way to wrap encryption into their applications to thwart online surveillance efforts. The project, called Crypton, comes from ...

Linus Torvalds is a giant of open source. And the story of how he created Linux as a student (Just For Fun, as the title of his book would have it), and then ruled (somewhat grumpily) over the ...