Open Source Articles - Page 5

OpenAI competitor Mistral brings open-source language models back to the forefront

The unmoderated AI is faster than the competition and can be used by anyone, anywhere

By Alfonso Maruccia, October 2, 2023, 8:41 AM

Software

Linux 6.5 is a smooth-sailing upgrade for the open-source kernel

No excuse to delay the release any further, Mr. Linux said on Sunday

By Alfonso Maruccia, August 28, 2023, 8:28 AM

Gaming The Web

After source code leak, WipeOut gets unofficial ports that can be played on a web browser

One unofficial conversion supports Windows, macOS, Linux, and web browsers

By Daniel Sims, August 12, 2023, 10:03 AM

AI Software

AudioCraft is a new open-source music generation tool from Meta

Simple yet powerful tools to create music and audio through textual prompts

By Alfonso Maruccia, August 3, 2023, 11:08 AM

Hardware Software

AMD planning to replace AGESA firmware with open source alternative openSIL

A simple, flexible, and secure solution for silicon initialization on AMD CPUs

By Alfonso Maruccia, May 8, 2023, 12:01 PM

Mobile Industry

Does Android need saving? If yes, here's how to do it.

Fragmentation is only one of many issues with the popular OS

Editor's take: Android is a hot mess. Google should make it truly open source. This would relieve them of a major antitrust vulnerability and infuse a massive amount of energy to the project.

Full story By Jonathan Goldberg, March 27, 2023, 1:52 PM 18 comments

Software

John Deere scolded for its inability to comply with GPL software license

The corporation has been abusing open source software license for years

By Alfonso Maruccia, March 20, 2023, 8:31 AM

Hardware Software

What's next for RISC V?

And how software plays a major factor in that

By Jonathan Goldberg, January 29, 2023, 10:04 AM 8 comments

Software Google

Google introduces vulnerability scanner for open-source projects

A community database-backed tool for detecting dependency vulnerabilities

By Daniel Sims, December 15, 2022, 7:37 AM

Software Microsoft

Microsoft is retiring its Soundscape app, but will make project code available as open-source software

Microsoft is letting the community take over

By Shawn Knight, December 13, 2022, 3:07 PM

Software Industry

Linux 6.0 releases stable branch supporting latest architecture

Something to look forward to: Users interested in new chip architectures like Raptor Lake, Arc Alchemist, or RDNA 3 will receive expanded Linux support with the release of the OS' latest kernel. Linux 6.0 introduces many other improvements with other important updates coming very soon with 6.1.

Full story By Daniel Sims, October 3, 2022, 7:04 PM 19 comments

Software Security

Python affected by 15-year-old bug that keeps on giving

In brief: The Python programming language is being impacted by security issue programmers have know about for a while. Trellix researchers recently rediscovered a bug, highlighting the risk for hundreds of thousands of software projects and creating patches for tens of thousands of them.

Full story By Alfonso Maruccia, September 22, 2022, 12:31 PM

Software

New LibreOffice version released on the Mac App Store, for a fee

The Document Foundation will make these affluent Apple users pay for free software

By Alfonso Maruccia, September 21, 2022, 2:33 PM 10 comments

Software Industry

The Rust programming language will join the Linux kernel

Rust has matured enough and will be welcomed in Linux 6.1 if all goes well

By Alfonso Maruccia, September 21, 2022, 6:15 AM

Hardware Industry

Google and the US government partner to make open source chips

Google's money will be used to fund industry innovation

By Alfonso Maruccia, September 15, 2022, 4:49 PM 13 comments

Gaming

Discover over 1,000 open-source games that are free to play

Clones and remakes that can run on a potato

By Danie Bester, September 6, 2022, 9:48 AM

Download of the Week Software

OBS Studio celebrates 10th anniversary with major release

OBS Studio 28.0 incorporates numerous improvements including 10-bit and HDR video encoding, native Apple silicon support, and up-to-date implementation of the AMD encoder on Windows, and more.

By Erik Orejuela, September 1, 2022, 10:28 AM

Gaming Software

You can now play Morrowind in VR with your friends

Morrowind's modding scene is still alive

By Cohen Coberly, May 2, 2022, 2:53 PM

Software Tech Culture

Developer nukes his extensively used JS libraries to protest corporate use without compensation

Thousands of applications ceased working because of the corrupted packages

By Cal Jeffrey, January 10, 2022, 7:50 PM 29 comments

Software Microsoft

Microsoft backtracks from controversial decision to remove flagship feature from .NET 6 SDK

The Redmond giant admits it made a mistake and will enable Hot Reload for all platforms

By Adrian Potoroaca, October 25, 2021, 7:22 AM 10 comments

Top Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop

FEATURE By Sami Haj-Assaad, June 14, 2021, 6:09 AM TechSpot Software

While many professionals swear by Adobe Photoshop, others find it a bit overkill, and that also goes for the subscription. If you're among the latter, you should try some of these alternative photo editing tools.