OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

The Linux Foundation gets $12.5 million in grants from tech giants to support long-term security initiatives for the open source ecosystem.

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, the AI red-teaming startup used by 125k developers and 30+ Fortune 500 firms, to strengthen ...

nanoPLM also got announced at FOSDEM 2025 in my talk about "Product development in mechanical engineering using open-source software". Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software is designed to manage ...

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

In March 1972, the U.S. Air Force started a review of a Honeywell Multics system to understand whether it could be used in secure environments. The report was issued in mid-1974 and concluded that ...

Happy Tuesday! I’m Nitasha Tiku, The Washington Post’s tech culture reporter, filling in for Will Oremus on today’s Tech Brief. Send tips about AI via Signal to: nitasha.10 An ambitious new project ...

What if managing your documents felt less like a chore and more like a seamless extension of your workflow? For businesses drowning in a sea of digital files, the need for an efficient, adaptable, and ...