Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an […]
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“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
Is software over? Thomas, who says he has about a decade of experience working on large-scale Rust projects, wrote on […]
PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC
For a long time, PC gamers could access many PlayStation 5 games only if the publisher invested in a bespoke […]
Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost
Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability. The performance gap between frontier AI models […]
A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain […]
Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”
Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that […]
Google releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 license
Google has not only released Gemma 4, it has done so under the Apache 2.0 license. This is a significant […]
Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks
An Anthropic-backed DMCA effort to remove its recently leaked Claude Code client source code from GitHub this week resulted in […]
Mozilla dev’s “Stack Overflow for agents” targets a key weakness in coding AI
Mozilla developer Peter Wilson has taken to the Mozilla.ai blog to announce cq, which he describes as “Stack Overflow for […]
LLM hesitancy leaves open source risks in place
LLMs are getting less wrong when analyzing open source code, but they’re becoming more hesitant. That hesitation quietly preserves risks, […]
