Open source software is often seen as a path to reproducibility in computational science. In practice there are many obstacles, even when the code is freely available, but open source policies should ...

Despite its expanding scale, COSCon remains driven by grassroots participation. KAIYUANSHE is a nonprofit organization, and both the conference and the broader community are maintained entirely by ...

Now the AI industry faces a similar choice. Chip maker AMD has cast its lot with the open-source alternative when it comes to the software that runs on its chips. And its chair and CEO, Lisa Su, told ...

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 ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have released PolyCoder, an automated code generator model that was trained on multiple programming languages, which they say is particularly good at ...

You don't need your phone to open a QR code. You probably already know how to scan a QR code with your phone. It's simple enough: just open the camera app, point your phone at the code, and tap the ...

VS Code is one of the most popular open-source (mostly) applications out there, and for good reason: It does everything you ...