What Does 'Open Source' Actually Mean, And How Did It Start?

There is no shortage of available open source software out there. Some well-known examples are Mozilla Firefox and the Linux ...
XDA Developers on MSN

VS Code is an open-source platform these days, not just a development tool

At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license.
TMCnet

Harper Open Sources its Composable Application Platform Built for High-Performance Web Applications

Today, at the JSConf North America 2025, Harper announced it will open source its core technology, a composable full-stack web application platform. The highly extensible, distributed system fuses ...

Reflectiz raises $22M to protect enterprise websites from third-party and open-source risks

Web exposure management platform startup Reflectiz Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $22 million in new funding to ...

‘Nation-state actor’ steals key source code; feds issue emergency warning

CISA issued an emergency directive after F5 source code and undisclosed vulnerabilities were stolen by a nation-state hacker.

Platform Engineering Labs launches ‘formae’ to fix broken infrastructure-as-code

The industry is dominated by platforms such as HashiCorp’s Terraform and its open-source rival OpenTofu, along with ...
CPO Magazine

Security Breach of F5 Involved BIG-IP Source Code Theft, Exposure of Customer Data to Nation-State Hackers

F5 has disclosed that an August breach exposed source code and customer data to what it calls "nation-state hackers." The company has not made an official attribution, but third-party security ...