Tag: Open Source
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Open Source Funding in 2026: The State of the Money
Open source funding in 2026 is no longer the GitHub Sponsors and Patreon era. The money is now flowing through corporate sponsorship, foundation grants, government programs, and the new crop of open source startups that have figured out how to charge for the service without charging for the code. The state of the money in…
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Regulatory Enforcement: Q1 2026 in Numbers
The regulators moved from guidance to enforcement in 2025. Q1 2026 was the first full quarter of the new normal. Here is what the numbers actually look like, and what they tell you about what is coming.
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AI Music in the Live Performance World
Live performance is the part of the music industry the AI has not touched. The reasons are interesting. The reasons will not last.
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Why Privacy Banners Don’t Work and What Does
Cookie consent banners have been on roughly 90 percent of EU sites for years. They have changed almost nothing. Here is why they fail, and what privacy UX that actually works looks like in 2026.
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Malware in the Open Source Supply Chain Is Now the Default
The malicious npm package, the typosquatted PyPI release, the compromised Docker image. The pattern has matured. The frequency has increased. The defence has not kept up.
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The Open Source Maintainer Burnout Crisis
Open source maintainer burnout is not a new problem, but in 2026 it is hitting a structural wall. The maintainers of the libraries that everything else depends on are the ones most likely to be working for free, on a project they started ten years ago, while a Fortune 500 company ships their work without…
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When Self Hosting Makes Sense, and When It Doesn’t
The self hosting decision has been the decision the developer community has been making for years, the decision the enterprise has started making again. The SaaS subscription the developer no longer trusts, the SaaS the developer can now host, the SaaS the developer is now running on the home server.
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The Tools That Disappeared in 2025
Every year takes a few tools with it. The 2025 list was longer than most. The vendors, the projects, the open source tools the working developer depended on, the ones that did not survive the acquisition, the funding cut, the maintainer burnout.
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Hardware Hacking in 2026 Is Having a Moment
Hardware hacking has gone from the conference talk that draws the small audience to the front page story that draws the regulator. The firmware vulnerability the researcher found in the conference demo, the vulnerability that sits in the device the enterprise has deployed across the fleet, the vulnerability that the vendor has been quietly patching…
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Building Software in Your Spare Time, Sustainably
The spare time software project has been the backbone of the modern stack. The project the maintainer built on the weekend, the project the maintainer has been maintaining alone, the project the industry has been depending on for free, the project that is one burnout away from the deprecated notice.