Huawei Technologies is set to open-source its self-developed programming language, Cangjie, marking the latest step in the company’s pursuit of technological self-sufficiency. First unveiled a year ...

Apple has released Pkl, a new open source ‘embeddable configuration language’, hoping to take the stress out of ‘small to large, simple to complex, ad-hoc to repetitive configuration tasks’.

Open source models successfully paved a path for the development of a multitude of technologies, cultivating a culture of knowledge sharing, collaboration, and community along the way.

Huawei Technologies is set to make its self-developed programming language, Cangjie, open-source in a bid to compete with Java and Swift.

Yet the rise in China of open technology, which relies on transparency and decentralisation, is awkward for an authoritarian ...

In 2018, for instance, Guido van Rossum, the creator of the open-source programming language Python, stepped down from leadership after almost 30 years, exhausted from the demands of the mostly ...

More than 40% of technology managers say security and compliance are an issue with open source. Nearly 40% of teams using open source lack the internal skills to test, use, or integrate that software.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, decided to open-source his company’s large language model, a program that learns skills by analyzing vast amounts of digital text culled from the internet.

Open-source technology also encourages innovation by allowing developers to modify existing software to suit specific needs. In Nigeria, where unique challenges often require homegrown solutions ...

The open source software movement was viewed at the time as a form of ‘digital civil duty’, democratizing access to technology. However, while the movement's ethos underpins much of today’s ...