DeepSeek and Huawei open-sourced a six-module AI programming toolkit on September 30, targeting Nvidia's CUDA software moat.

You likely know MakerBot Industries as the poster child for the new era of 3D-printing. You might not know that, until last week, the company and its CEO, Bre Pettis, were considered shining lights in ...

Read the whole Feb. 3, 2014, issue of InformationWeek, distributed in an all-digital format (registration required). Facebook, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and other leading IT users think the open-source ...

Rob Clark, who originally started working on the reverse-engineering Freedreno and MSM DRM graphics driver projects prior to ...

Since e-ink first hit the market a couple decades back, there’s always murmurs of “that’d be great as a second monitor”— but very, very few monitors have ever been made. When the commecial world is ...

Mention IT security, and most people immediately think of software-based protections against software-based threats: ransomware, viruses, and other forms of malware. But recognition of the importance ...

Apex Compute is the company started in California in 2024 that aims to produce high-efficiency AI accelerators for real-time edge AI inferencing. So far they have an FPGA prototype for licensing and ...

On September 28, 2026, RoboParty publicly unveiled RP1 (ROBOTO 01) at IROS 2026, marking the robot's global debut. In January 2026, ...

For many years now, there has been a trend toward open source in the field of system development. It can be seen in software libraries for the product itself as well as in development tools. A clear ...

The companies behind Google’s OpenTitan project recently announced the commercial availability of what they called the world’s first chip with open-source hardware security baked directly into it.

Proprietary hardware was once nearly the only pathway to building a new medical device company, but open-source hardware is changing what's possible.