Open Source

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 the kernel’s evolution.

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. The implications are enormous.

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. Is it the Node.js challenger we’ve been waiting for?

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. Memory safety in the kernel is getting real.

The Linux Foundation’s new Alpha-Omega Project, backed by Google and Microsoft, aims to systematically improve the security of critical open source software.

The White House convened tech leaders to address open source security after Log4Shell. Here’s what was discussed and what it means for developers.

A single developer deliberately corrupted two widely-used npm packages, exposing the fragility of the open source supply chain.

A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Log4j has sent the entire industry scrambling. Here’s what you need to know and do right now.