IEEE Spectrum on MSN

Qualcomm Buys Arduino, and the Open-Source Community Is Skeptical

On 7 October, the open-source hardware community woke up to surprising news. Qualcomm, the tech giant behind the Snapdragon ...
MUO on MSN

This open-source Photoshop rival is better than it has any right to be

A s great as Photoshop is, its subscription cost is still a rather high barrier to entry. Alternatives are a dime a dozen, and editing images with Gemini is actually better than Photoshop. However, AI ...
CNX Software

Google’s open-source, RISC-V-based Coral NPU is integrated into Synaptics SL2610 Edge AI SoCs

Google has very recently introduced Coral NPU full-stack, open-source RISC-V-based platform for always-on AI on low-power ...
dbta

Quantinuum Introduces Open-Source Quantum Software for Application Developers

Quantinuum is introducing its next-generation quantum computer, Helios, which will come online this year and arrive as a full-stack platform that “sets a new standard for the industry.” According to ...
Neowin

Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC after almost 50 years0 0

Microsoft has finally open-sourced one of its oldest products: 6502 BASIC. The source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor is now available on the Redmond giant's GitHub ...
GeekWire

Orange Crabs in the Machine: How Rust is rewriting the rules of modern software

Rust mascot Ferris the crab welcomes attendees to RustConf 2025 in Seattle, where the community marked the 10th anniversary of the open-source programming language’s first stable release, and ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...