Alibaba’s Qwen team of AI researchers — already having a banner year with numerous powerful open source AI model releases — ...

Google has created a new "Open Source Maintenance Crew" who will help upstream maintainers of critical open-source projects to handle bugs and patching processes. The new team is part of Google's ...

The Open Invention Network, an organization created to help take the pressure of patent litigation off Linux developers, has added Google to the ranks of its contributors. The move is a major ...

Google has introduced a new vulnerability rewards program to pay researchers who find security flaws in its open-source software or in the building blocks that its software is built on. It’ll pay ...

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Google plans to pay out cash rewards for information on vulnerabilities discovered in any of its open source projects as part of an ongoing effort to improve the security of open source code. The new ...

Google recently pledged $100 million to groups that manage open-source security priorities and help fix vulnerabilities, and it has now detailed eight of the projects it has chosen to support. Just ...

Google contributes to open-source projects for a variety of reasons, but Gartner analyst Brian Prentice suggests a new one that could change software competition forever. Matt Asay is a veteran ...

Google at Google Cloud Next 24 unveiled three open source projects for building and running generative AI models. The company also introduced new large language models to its MaxText project of ...

Google has called on the US government to take a more proactive role in identifying and protecting open-source projects that are critical to internet security. In a blog post the company published ...

I trialed this open-source navigation app that's taking on Google Maps with a community-driven approach, and the results were interesting.

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