The open-source movement was driven by an anti-corporate spirit, rooted in collaboration and rejection of gatekeepers. In ...

Discover VSCodium, the community-driven, open-source version of VS Code that prioritizes privacy and freedom. Enjoy the same ...

Data journalists often run Python in “JupyterLab”, an open-source web application that creates documents that allow you to import data, run code and create visualisations.

Vibe coding no longer means autocomplete on steroids. It now spans one-prompt app builders, deep-context agents, and local ...

Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) launched an open-source AI model, Qwen3-Coder, for software development that the company described as its most advanced coding tool to date, Reuters reported.

JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, has released its first "open" AI model for coding. On Wednesday, JetBrains made Mellum, a code-generating model the company ...

These days, the vast majority of state and local governments have implemented some kind of open data system to share government data resources with developers and the public at large. But what ...

Learning to code, being part of Open Data movements, and using Gen AI tools are all important for data journalists ...

StarCoder 2, the follow-up to StarCoder, is a new family of code-generating models that runs highly efficiently.

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