The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

Open-source software powers the majority of today’s businesses. An estimated 70% to 90% of modern software solutions use a code base made up of open-source components, according to 2022 data from the ...

In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, a cynic is described as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" while a sentimentalist is "a man who sees an absurd value in ...

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 ...

There's a false sense of security around open source code, according to Trustwave researchers Brandon Myers and Assi Barak. Their deeper point was that open source code is prone to vulnerabilities ...

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

What’s Next for Open Source Software Security in 2025? Your email has been sent Hidden dependencies, social engineering attacks, and the complexity of foundation models can all contribute tothe ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Embedded systems are emerging as a go-to solution for many projects. This rapid uptake in embedded interest is due, in large part, to advances in ...

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

Two years ago, the joint government-private sector response to the Log4j vulnerability that spawned 800,000 attacks worldwide led to the Enduring Security Framework for federal agencies adopting open ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...