Microsoft has released some sample code for its Kinect for Windows SDK under an open source license via CodePlex. It has also expanded the reach of the device for educational purposes. More...

The Android Jelly Bean source code has been released for developers along with proprietary binaries for Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus devices. Expect updates from developers soon. More...

Fabien Sanglard rips apart Quake 3's source code and does an excellent job explaining it with both words and diagrams. It's a must-read for anyone interested in game development. More...

Anonymous announces on Twitter that it has released the Norton AntiVirus 2006 source code with the world via The Pirate Bay, months after first claiming to have got their hands on it. More...

A new study finds that open source quality has increased and even become “slightly better” than closed source software when codebases are on par. More...

Symantec admits that as part of a sting operation it offered to pay $50,000 to the hacker who said he had the source code to the company's PCAnywhere and Norton Anti-Virus products. More...

PC security software company Symantec has now admitted that the online theft of some of its source code could pose an "increased risk" for users of its pcAnywhere product. More...

Symantec has now admitted that the source code obtained by hackers for its line of anti-virus software was obtained in 2006 from its own servers, rather than from a third party. More...

Anti-virus software maker Symantec has admitted that hackers have leaked the source code for one of its products onto the Internet but claim that the code that was leaked is several years old. More...

The action-driving sequel Fast Five was the most pirated movie on the Internet in 2011, according to a new list that uses download info from thousands of BitTorrent users, among other sources. More...

Just a few days after being released, the Kindle Fire OS gets its source code opened up for the world to download. The software is a fork of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, tweaked to suit the new tablet. More...

Things just do not seem to be going Sony's way these last few weeks. First their entire PlayStation Network was hacked with information stolen and quickly leaked onto the Internet, then when the service was... More...

The popular Nokia-maintained mobile operating system, Symbian, now finds itself open after Nokia decided to publish the most recent master source code. In a post on the Symbian website, Nokia says it is "making the... More...

The popular Kaspersky Anti-Virus suite appears to have had its source code leaked online to torrent and file sharing sites. According to the description of the leak, the source code was stolen from the Kaspersky labs back in... More...

Today, technology media giant Gawker, that runs sites including Gizmodo and Lifehacker, has had their source code and databases leaked to a popular torrent website. Gawker issued in a statement to anyone who has an account... More...

In celebration of Verizon's Droid X launch, Google has announced the immediate availability of the Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) source code. Since a few days after Google's I/O developers conference back in May, Nexus One... More...

Full source code for the client for popular MMORPG Eve Online was made available recently via BitTorrent on The Pirate Bay. Along with the torrent, the user posts a chat transcript with a representative... More...

Tolkien writes "Source code for SimCity has been released under the GPLv3. For legal reasons the open source version was renamed Micropolis, which was apparently the original working title. The OLPC will also be getting... More...

Microsoft kicked off a series of technical conferences this week by pledging to release Visual Studio 2008 by the end of November, making the developer IDE the first of three major Windows platform updates scheduled... More...

According to Gamers With Jobs, Hellgate London, Flagship Studios upcoming Sci-Fi themed FPS RPG has taken a page out of the Half-Life 2 book of bad network security. According to the report, the Flagship Studios... More...

The "Wall Street Journal" has obtained a confidential document sent from European Union (EU) antitrust regulators to Microsoft last month, warning the software giant that a release of its Windows source code would not meet... More...

As promised last week, the Quake III source code has been released and is on the id FTP server. The 5.5 mb download is also available from several mirrors. Download: 3DGamers... More...

In his QuakeCon 2005 keynote, John Carmack revealed that after some delays id is finally ready to release the complete Quake III source code for use under the terms of the GPL. He could not... More...

Authorities in Sweden had detained a person for stealing Cisco Systems Inc.'s source code, the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet traffic around the globe, the company said yesterday. Police in Uppsala, a... More...

In a surprise release, 3D Realms sends along the source code for Shadow Warrior, allowing you to tinker with their 1997 first-person shooter. Compiling the source will require Open Watcom 1.3 for Windows, and while... More...

The Source Code Club has opened up shop again. The group of self-identified hackers has posted files online that it claims contains source code for Pix security firewall from Cisco Systems. The... More...

A 20-year old man was arrested in England on September 3rd for the alleged theft of proprietary source code used by Cisco Systems. No formal charges have been brought against the man (who's identity has... More...

Those MVPs living within the already 27 countries that have signed up with Microsoft's Windows Source code program can now see it for free (limited source code of course). Specifically the programs cover Windows... More...

The author of mass-mailing worm Bagle began distributing its source code and two new variants on Sunday, which could trigger another summer of misery for Windows users. Infected PCs download a Trojan... More...

In a move that reflects the growing power of the open-source programming movement, Sun Microsystems plans Monday to share a modest chunk of Java source code, an experimental user interface for desktop computers called Project... More...

Russian security Web site SecurityLab is reporting that the source code for Cisco Systems Inc.'s main networking device operating system was stolen on Thursday. According to the report, criminal hackers broke into Cisco's corporate network... More...

Microsoft on Tuesday night released the source code for its Windows Template Library under the open-source Common Public License and posted it on SourceForge, the open-source code repository. The Windows Template Library (WTL) is a... More...

On Monday, Microsoft released some of its code under an open-source license, and posted it on SourceForge, the open-source code repository. To date, Microsoft has made its source code available under a variety of licensing... More...

REDMOND, Wash., Updated Feb. 18, 2004 -- On Thursday, February 12, Microsoft became aware that portions of the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 source code were illegally made available on the Internet. Subsequent... More...

Neowin has learned of shocking and potentially devastating news. It would appear that two packages are circulating on the internet, one being the source code to Windows 2000, and the other being the source code... More...

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday will announce that it is giving its Most Valued Professionals access to the more than 100 million aggregate lines of Windows source code, which includes all versions, service packs and betas... More...

A security breach is being blamed for the leak of the HL2 source code which started with an unnamed individual reportedly gaining access to Gabe's own personal email account and workstation.... -Keldyn ... More...

Quoted from Slashdot: Pyroman[FO] writes "There is the Half Life 2 source code floating around the net right now. It looks to be about a month old. There's no official word from... More...

The source code for a newer version of the Apache Web server software is of the same quality as that of proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study has found. ... More...

A SENIOR VP at Microsoft has told an e-commerce conference in Brazil that his firm thinks open source is destroying the software industry. Craig Mundie, senior VP at Microsoft, told the conference in São Paulo... More...

In a surprise release, 3D Realms sends along the source code for Duke Nukem 3D, allowing you to tinker with their 1996 first-person shooter. Compiling the source will require Open Watcom 1.0 or Watcom C... More...

RealNetworks on Wednesday made available the source code for sending video and audio over the Internet to other software and hardware makers. The release of the code, called the Helix DNA Server, is part of... More...

Thanks prasanth for this. Microsoft, long a proponent of keeping source code secret, plans to publish the source code to a critical part of its Palladium project to enhance security, a representative of the software... More...

Found this at Internetnews.com Despite its much-popularized mistrust of the open source model, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) inched another step in that direction Thursday with an expansion of its Shared Source Initiative, a... More...

Code Con Source code for ZeroKnowledge Systems' discontinued anonymous Internet service has leaked onto the Web, apparently with the blessing of ZKS' Chief Scientist Ian Goldman. The announcement was made on Goldman's... More...

Thanks to our friends over @ Warp2search for the heads up on this one. Seems id Software have also released a new source code distribution of Quake II . updating last week's release to the... More...

The Quake 2 source code is now available for download, licensed under the GPL. As with previous source code releases, the game data remains under the original copyright and license, and cannot be... More...