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I found these 5 overlooked open-source apps on GitHub and use them every day

Open-source apps are increasingly able to replace your subscriptions.

Why automated open source scans don't guarantee license compliance

Hannah Dacayanan of UnitedLex discusses ways in which automated software composition analysis tools identify open source ...

Docugami Open-Sources DGML, a Document Technology Built So AI Agents Can Trust the Data They Extract, in Partnership with Inveniam

Docugami, the document intelligence company led by Jean Paoli, XML co-creator and former Microsoft open source subsidiary ...
ZDNet

Open-source security is a mess - IBM and Red Hat bet $5 billion and 20,000 engineers can fix it

Lightwell is a huge effort to safeguard open-source software. IBM and Red Hat are investing in this massive security initiative. We don't yet know how this subscription-based service will work. AI is ...
CNBC

Mythos was the critical trigger for IBM's open-source cybersecurity push, Krishna says

IBM and Red Hat are investing $5 billion into a new cybersecurity push to address vulnerabilities in open-source software. CEO Arvind Krishna said the launch of Anthropic's Mythos was the "critical ...
New Scientist

Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk

A decision by NHS England to withdraw open-source code created with UK taxpayer funds because of the risk posed by computer-hacking AI models is attracting growing backlash. Last month, Mythos, an AI ...
TechSpot

Microsoft releases the earliest DOS source code ever discovered as open source

Editor's take: Microsoft continues to tightly control the release of some of its most important pieces of legacy software. While enthusiasts and programmers are eager to see newer versions of MS-DOS ...
Ars Technica

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 kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...
ZDNet

My 5 favorite open source operating systems that aren't Linux

Although Linux is the king of open-source OSes, there are options. Here you'll find a few open-source OSes to toy around with. Don't expect any of these to be viable options for daily use. When you ...
Futurism

Devious New AI Tool “Clones” Software So That the Original Creator Doesn’t Hold a Copyright Over the New Version

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The ...
The New York Times

DeepSeek’s Sequel Set to Extend China’s Reach in Open-Source A.I.

Chinese companies have embraced making their most advanced artificial intelligence models available to all. The Chinese start-up DeepSeek shook the industry in January 2025 with its claim that it had ...