No longer prepared to svn commit: WebKit migrates to GitHub
Apple's web engine to take advantage of Git’s distributed nature, GitHub’s large community
Devops01 Sep 2022 | 23
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Merge requests and insecure GitHub workflows may lead to supply-chain attacks
Starting with Google Firebase and Apache Camel repos
Devops01 Sep 2022 | 8
Banned Tornado Cash code reuploaded to GitHub in free speech test
Cryptography prof tells Microsoft to get forked
Software24 Aug 2022 | 58
GitHub Copilot may be perfect for cheating CompSci programming exercises
Shakeup in teaching looms as code-completion tool lets students 'bring an Uzi to a knife fight'
AI + ML19 Aug 2022 | 58
GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments
If you're looking for free speech or privacy, move along
Software10 Aug 2022 | 59
FauxPilot: It's like GitHub Copilot but doesn't phone home to Microsoft
Updated And if you train your own AI model for it, you can worry less about licensing
Devops06 Aug 2022 | 19
Miscreants aim to cause Discord discord with malicious npm packages
LofyLife campaign comes amid GitHub security lockdown
Research02 Aug 2022 | 2
Even robots have the right to learn from open source
Opinion Just because it's Microsoft doesn't mean it's wrong
Software11 Jul 2022 | 63
Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
Paid-for Copilot trained on FOSS code final straw for Software Freedom Conservancy
AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 94
Arrogant, subtle, entitled: 'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions examined
Analysis Developer interactions sometimes contain their own kind of poison
Devops29 Jun 2022 | 116
For a few days earlier this year, rogue GitHub apps could have hijacked countless repos
A bit of a near-hit for the software engineering world
Devops21 Jun 2022 | 5
GitHub's AI code assistant Copilot takes flight. And that'll be $10 a month, please
You wanna bug fix and chill?
AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 19
RubyGems polishes security practices with multi-factor authentication push
Faced with rising software supply-chain attacks, package registries are locking things down
Devops16 Jun 2022 | 1
GitHub drops Atom bomb: Open-source text editor mothballed by end of year
Embrace, extend technology into other products ... and extinguish
Devops08 Jun 2022 | 58
GitHub saved plaintext passwords of npm users in log files, post mortem reveals
Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, but still troubling as org reveals details of around 100,000 users were grabbed by the baddies
Security27 May 2022 | 16
How to find NPM dependencies vulnerable to account hijacking
Security engineer outlines self-help strategy for keeping software supply chain safe
CSO23 May 2022 | 21
Email domain for NPM lib with 6m downloads a week grabbed by expert to make a point
Special report Campaign to coax GitHub-owned outfit to improve security starts showing results
CSO10 May 2022 | 47
GitHub to require two-factor authentication for code contributors by late 2023
Code locker has figured out it's a giant honeypot for miscreants planning supply chain attacks
Security05 May 2022 | 17
Communication around Heroku security incident dubbed 'train wreck'
Users claim lack of transparency following compromise of Github tokens
Security04 May 2022 | 5
Microsoft reanimates 1995's 3D Movie Maker via GitHub
Next Nadella keynote to be delivered by McZee?
Software04 May 2022 | 10
Watch out for AI models regurgitating misplaced keys that unlock crypto wallets
Effect of GitHub's OpenAI-powered Copilot memorizing sensitive but public data
AI + ML03 May 2022 | 4
So, what happened with GitHub, Heroku, and those raided private repos?
Analysis Who knew what when and what did they do?
Devops21 Apr 2022 | 10
GitHub's Dependabot learns to report bad news you can use
Instead of just raising the alarm, automated code-scold will flag where the fire is
Devops15 Apr 2022 |
GitHub tackles leaks by scanning for secrets in pushed code
Repo updates inspected for security blunders before some git can exploit them
Security05 Apr 2022 | 6
Dev rigs up receipt printer to spit out GitHub issues
Not the first time the letters POS have been associated with someone's repo
Software29 Mar 2022 | 25
GitHub explains outage string in incidents update
It was MySQL, with the resource contention, in the database cluster
Software24 Mar 2022 | 21
Complaints mount after GitHub launches new algorithmic feed
GitHub algorithm seeks to improve discovery. Developers disagree.
Software23 Mar 2022 | 40
This JavaScript scanner hunts down malware in libraries
Stick a fork in this Socket and zap malicious NPM packages
Security01 Mar 2022 | 2
GitHub puts prebuilt Codespaces into public beta
Say goodbye to your coffee break
Devops25 Feb 2022 | 3
Worried about occasional npm malware scares? It's more common than you may think
WhiteSource says it spotted 1,300 malicious JavaScript packages in 2021 alone
Security03 Feb 2022 | 15
OpenShell has been working on a classic replacement for Windows 11's Start menu
It's still early days, though
OSes26 Jan 2022 | 53
JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort
Updated Faker.js and colors.js sabotaged by maker
Software10 Jan 2022 | 90
Four years: That's how long Azure's App Service had a source code leak bug
Firm that found the flaw also spotted ChaosDB and OMIGOD, confident this one’s been exploited
Security24 Dec 2021 | 7
Gnu Nano releases version 6.0 of text editor, can now hide UI frippery
First five full releases took 20 years, this one arrived in 18 months
Software16 Dec 2021 | 53
LINE Pay leaks around 133,000 users' data to GitHub, of all places
Someone just accidentally put it there, says the messaging service company
Security07 Dec 2021 | 3
Ubiquiti dev charged with knocking $4bn off firm's value after insider threat spree
Prosecutors claim Nickolas Sharp even posed as a whistleblower to press
Legal02 Dec 2021 | 8
Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub
GitHub: 'Credentials exposed by our users are not in scope'
Security18 Nov 2021 | 27
GitHub's State of the Octoverse survey shows devs are still swerving the office
Coding JS in your PJs here to stay
Devops17 Nov 2021 | 2
GitHub fixes authorisation vulnerability in the NPM JavaScript package registry
Flaw allowed 'an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package'
Security16 Nov 2021 | 4
GitHub CEO forks off: Nat Friedman to quit this month, replacement will report to exec behind .NET Hot Reload fiasco
Updated Chief product officer takes over world's palatable social network
Devops03 Nov 2021 | 8
OpenID-based security features added to GitHub Actions as usage doubles
GitHub Universe Single-use tokens and reusable workflows explained at Universe event
Devops28 Oct 2021 |
NPM packages disguised as Roblox API code caught carrying ransomware
Subverted libraries likely intended as a prank but should be taken seriously, say security researchers
Security27 Oct 2021 | 7
It's that time of the year again when GitHub does its show'n'tell of features – some new and others kinda new
Universe event reveals iterative improvements but no big bang
Devops27 Oct 2021 | 5
.NET Foundation admits it 'violated the trust of project maintainers'
Mashes the Sorry button, offers to reverse forced code migration, and promises not to ever mess with projects again
Software13 Oct 2021 | 8
GitLab all set to go public as revenues – and losses – rise
IPO was expected last year but then we had a pandemic
Devops20 Sep 2021 | 10
Open-source software starts with developers, but there are other important contributors, too. Who exactly? Good question
Opinion Looking beyond the programmers
Software08 Sep 2021 | 40
GitHub merges 'useless garbage' says Linus Torvalds as new NTFS support added to Linux kernel 5.15
Also: Compiler warnings now treated as errors by default in kernel builds
Software06 Sep 2021 | 99
Microsoft previews free Visual Studio Code for the Web
Browser-based editor will open files on GitHub, Azure repositories or from the local device
Software01 Sep 2021 | 20
GitHub's Copilot may steer you into dangerous waters about 40% of the time – study
Unless you like shipping buggy or vulnerable code, keep your hands on the wheel
AI + ML25 Aug 2021 | 36
GitLab 14.2 brings macOS 'build cloud' closed beta and improved Gitpod support among nearly 50 new features
Open-source rival shows it can compete with Microsoft's GitHub
Devops24 Aug 2021 |
GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication
In brief Plus: eBPF Foundation emerges, Exchange severs probed for ProxyShell holes, and more
Security12 Aug 2021 | 7
After 15 months in preview, GitHub releases Codespaces – probably the fanciest new shiny since Actions
Teams and Enterprise only for now
Software12 Aug 2021 | 12
GitHub's npm gave away a package name while it was in use, causing rethink
When it comes to ownership then details count
Software10 Aug 2021 | 16
GitHub stuffs $1m in Stanford Law School's pocket to provide free legal advice to DMCA-hit developers
Fellowship funding comes in the wake of Youtube-DL fiasco
Devops27 Jul 2021 | 3
GitHub Copilot auto-coder snags emerge, from seemingly spilled secrets to bad code, but some love it
Analysis Great wow factor but is it legal? Is it ethical? Is code that can't be trusted any use?
AI + ML06 Jul 2021 | 35
GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work
Maybe call it backseat programming for now?
Devops30 Jun 2021 | 18
AWS App Runner: Fast path from GitHub to deployed application, but limited features in first release
Google Cloud Run envy?
Off-Prem19 May 2021 |
Gitpod ditches Eclipse Theia for Visual Studio Code under redesign, sponsors new dev experience event
'Allowing everyone to use their favourite IDE just makes a lot of sense'
Applications08 Apr 2021 | 4
Microsoft's GitHub under fire after disappearing proof-of-concept exploit for critical Microsoft Exchange vuln
Funny how code that targets Redmond vanishes while tons of others menacing other vendors remain
Security12 Mar 2021 | 36
GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'
Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references
Devops11 Mar 2021 | 120
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