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GitHub
Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers

Developers are pushing code and opening pull requests across economy borders at a rate GitHub has rarely seen. Outbound collaboration, the sum of git pushes and pull requests …

open-source cybersecurity tools
20 open-source cybersecurity tools to keep your team ready for anything

AI is changing how security teams find vulnerabilities, analyze code, test applications, and protect infrastructure. Developers are building tools to secure AI systems …

Apple Container
Apple Container: Open-source tool for Linux containers on the Mac

Developers on Apple silicon Macs have run Linux containers through software built around a single shared virtual machine for years. Apple’s open-source Container project …

Omnigent
Omnigent: Open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness

Plenty of developers now keep several coding agents close at hand, reaching for Claude Code on one task and Codex or Cursor on the next. Each tool arrives with its own command …

Flipper Zero
Flipper Zero firmware development gets a fresh set of community rules

Owners of the Flipper Zero, the pocket-sized wireless testing tool, spent recent weeks worried that its official firmware had gone quiet. Pavel Zhovner, CEO of Flipper …

GitHub
GitHub’s new tool helps prevent costly open-source license violations

GitHub’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) uses the new GitHub License Compliance feature, now in public preview, to manage thousands of open-source dependencies and …

Nika
Nika: Open-source code analysis tool

Many serious security bugs in web applications sit across several files at once. Request data enters through a controller, moves through data objects and service layers, and …

Vulnerability reports are arriving faster than GitHub can review them

Across the open source world, people are reporting software flaws in record numbers, and the systems built to verify those reports are straining under the weight. The GitHub …

open-source cybersecurity tools
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: June 2026

Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across …

DarkMoon
DarkMoon: Open-source AI pentesting platform

Penetration testing has long run on expert time, with specialists spending days probing a network or web application by hand. Manual engagements stretch across weeks, expert …

Modelplane
Modelplane: Open-source control plane for AI inference

Organizations that run open-weight models on hardware they own operate GPU fleets spread across clouds, neoclouds, and on-premise data centers. Each fleet handles model …

Praxen
Praxen: Open-source AI agent behavior verification

Praxen is an open-source tool with a simple job: it checks whether an AI agent does what it claims to do. The tool takes an agent’s declared policy, looks at how the …

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