Open Source

With Rust 1.67 freshly shipped and adoption accelerating across major tech companies, the language is crossing the threshold from promising to essential.

As millions flee Twitter for Mastodon, the decentralized social protocol ActivityPub faces its biggest real-world scalability challenge yet.

As users flood to Mastodon following the Twitter acquisition, the open-source platform faces its biggest infrastructure test yet.

Ubuntu 22.10 ships with updated toolchains and GNOME 43, but the real story is what it previews for the next LTS cycle.

Linux 6.0 arrives with Rust language support, performance improvements, and new hardware enablement — but the real story is what the version bump signals about

Stability AI’s open release of Stable Diffusion marks a watershed moment for generative AI, putting powerful image generation in the hands of every developer.

Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion as open source, putting state-of-the-art image generation in the hands of anyone with a GPU.

Rust 1.63 brings scoped threads to stable, finally making it ergonomic to share stack references across threads without Arc or cloning.

Bun, a new JavaScript runtime built on JavaScriptCore and written in Zig, is making waves with extraordinary benchmark numbers.

PyCon US 2022 kicks off in Salt Lake City with Python riding high as the world’s most popular programming language.

A popular npm package was deliberately sabotaged by its own maintainer, raising urgent questions about supply chain trust in open source.

The Rust for Linux project continues gaining momentum with updated patch series and growing support from kernel maintainers.