Often thankless, always needed. These are the projects that make the internet work as well as it does.

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

AI has made it easy to generate software code, but some open source projects have stopped taking code submissions from the public, citing a deluge of low quality code or code that doesn’t match ...

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...

While we can’t help but be inundated by news of this or that latest model, open source keeps quietly chugging away in the background. CNCF now hosts more than 230 projects with more than 300,000 ...

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst ...

Tolaria is what Obsidian should have been—fully open source and AI-ready ...

GitHub hosts powerful open source apps you can use daily, from Immich for photo backups and Upscayl for image upscaling to VERT for file conversion, BC Uninstaller for cleanup, Mole for Mac storage, ...