In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

Interest in open-source hardware (OSHW) has exploded beyond its early hobbyist adopters. Favoring design transparency over confidentiality, the OSHW movement lies at the core of some of the hottest ...

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.

The open-source revolution is expanding beyond software into hardware design. New microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and Espressif incorporate processors based on RISC-V—an open-source ...

The concept of using open-source software has become increasingly commonplace in industry, with many large software vendors incorporating use of open-source technologies as part of their software ...

Open-sourcing crypto wallet designs offers some benefits, but there are trade-offs as well. Last month, hardware crypto wallet manufacturer Ledger announced its “Ledger Recover” program designed to ...

Open-source protocols have become a mainstay in the tech world and are gaining traction due to the myriad benefits that they offer over their proprietary counterparts. The protocols are typically ...