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Lynis is an open source security auditing tool. Its main goal is to audit and harden Unix and Linux based systems. It scans the system by performing many security control checks. Examples include searching for installed software and determine possible …
In a Substack post, Norm Sohl describes how he built a highly configurable machine out of open source hardware plans and the thermal guts of an Espresso Gaggia. An anonymous reader shares a summary from Ars Technica: Like many home espresso enthusiasts…
The Reg has seen two recent incidents of Russian developers being blocked from public development of FOSS code. One was a refusal on the Linux kernel mailing list, the other a more general block on Github. In the last week, these events have both cause…
BGR reports:
Elon Musk seems to be close to making good on his promise to open-source Twitter’s code. Well, at least part of it.
In a post on the social media platform, the Twitter CEO announced that the company will open-source the code used to re…
The open-source, cross-platform Godot Engine has arrived in the Epic Games store. “Starting today, you can choose to use EGS to download the engine and keep it up to date with every release,” writes the company in a blog post. From the release: Epic Ga…
TomTom, the Dutch navigation software company most known for its GPS navigation systems, announced that it’s support the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) as a Platinum Member. It’s a U-turn for the company, which launched an article in 2012 on what they…
Today, DreamWorks published the open-source code for MoonRay, their production renderer used for films like The Bad Guys, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and other animation films. “OpenMoonRay is available via DreamWorks Animation’s GitHub,” reports Pho…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The creators of the all-open source MNT Reform laptop are getting nearer to launching its handheld counterpart: The crowdfunding campaign for the 7-inch MNT Pocket Reform has officially launched an…
Stack Overflow explored the “hype cycle” by asking thousands of real developers whether nascent tech trends have really proven themselves, and how they feel about them. “With AI-assisted technologies in the news, this survey’s aim was to get a baseline…
From an opinion piece in the Register:
Aiven, an open source cloud data platform company, recently analyzed who’s doing what with GitHub open source code projects. They found that the top open source contributors were all companies — Amazon Web …