WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - The recent attempt by an unknown actor to sabotage a widely used software program may have been one of several attempts to subvert key pieces of digital infrastructure ...

The open-source project Babel is nearly out of cash and employees fear for their jobs, one insider said. Its plea for money sparked controversy when its creator, who no longer works there, made ...

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the OpenJS Foundation, which back multiple JavaScript-based open source software (OSS) projects, have warned that the attempted social engineering ...

The open source software that the vast majority of organizations include in their critical applications is vulnerable to exploitation from threat actors taking part in its creation. That's the message ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Meta is transferring its popular open-source JavaScript testing framework, Jest, to the OpenJS Foundation. Jest is one of Meta's top open-source projects and has proven a popular tool for testing ...

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Microsoft continued its historic open source efforts by announcing it will donate the technology behind its Chakra JavaScript engine to the community -- and solicit outside help in making it cross ...

Linus Torvalds is a giant of open source. And the story of how he created Linux as a student (Just For Fun, as the title of his book would have it), and then ruled (somewhat grumpily) over the ...

Software supply chain quickly became a hot topic in the last few years, especially as the number of high-profile attacks increased and the White House got involved. Sigstore, an open source project ...