Bleeping Computer

GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs

A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with Microsoft repositories, making the files appear trustworthy. While most ...
Macworld

How to use Git and GitHub on Mac

I’d like to use the Git and GitHub programming tools on my Mac. Are they easy to learn? Git, along with its popular web-based companion GitHub, sits alongside popular programming languages such as ...

A group of developers sent a letter demanding GitHub cancel its ICE contract, saying it puts the Microsoft-owned company at odds with its own community and values

GitHub has served as a backbone of the open source development community, but a group of developers says the company's ICE contract puts them at odds.
Wired

The GitHub Revolution: Why We're All in Open Source Now

GitHub was intended to be an open software collaboration platform, but it’s become a platform for much, much more than code. It’s now being used by artists, builders, home owners, everyone in between, ...
ZDNet

GitHub suffers 'largest DDoS' attack in site's history

GitHub is suffering a DDoS attack deemed the largest in the website's history and believed to originate from China. The coding website is a popular repository for projects from game engines to ...
Business Wire

LTIMindtree and GitHub Forge Strategic Alliance to Accelerate AI-Driven Software Engineering

WARREN, N.J. & MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LTIMindtree [NSE: LTIM, BSE: 540005], a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, has announced a strategic partnership with GitHub, ...
Wired

GitHub’s Commercial AI Tool Was Built From Open Source Code

Earlier this month, Armin Ronacher, a prominent open-source developer, was experimenting with a new code-generating tool from GitHub called Copilot when it began to produce a curiously familiar ...
InfoWorld

What is GitHub? More than Git version control in the cloud

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why. GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based ...
Reuters

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke to step down, plans new startup

Aug 11 (Reuters) - GitHub Chief Executive Thomas Dohmke said on Monday he will leave the Microsoft-owned (MSFT.O), opens new tab code-hosting platform to launch a new startup, capping a tenure that ...

WebRAT malware spread via fake vulnerability exploits on GitHub

The WebRAT malware is now being distributed through GitHub repositories that claim to host proof-of-concept exploits for ...
ZDNet

GitHub to replace 'master' with 'main' starting next month

"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will be ...