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- Legal Name: GitHub, Inc.
- Website: github.com
- Founded: 2008
- Founder(s): Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, Scott Chacon
- Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
- Title: Where the world builds software
What is GitHub?
GitHub, headquartered in California, is a service that offers a cloud-based Git repository. It allows developers to store, manage, track and control changes in their code. It was founded in February of 2008 and since 2018, it is a subsidiary of Microsoft. As of 2020, the platform has more than 40 million users and 190 million repositories, which makes it the biggest host of source code that exists.
GitHub News
GitHub launches new “Octernships” program
GitHub, a platform for software development, has unveiled a brand-new, paid remote internship program. The program's objective is to give ...
GitHub releases secret scanning alerts for security
GitHub now offers free secret scanning alerts that scan code, description, and other parts, which can be enabled manually. A ...
GitHub Copilot for Business is now available
Copilot's $19 per month enterprise version, Copilot for Business, is no longer in the beta phase and is now available ...
GitHub is going full remote and laying off 10% of its staff
GitHub is reducing its workforce by approximately 10% through the end of the fiscal year 2023 while GitLab is reducing ...
What is GitHub Copilot?
Each year, thousands of students start studying software development while expert developers are improving themselves to be better in specific ...
Hacker steals code signing certificates for GitHub Desktop and Atom
GitHub discovered on December 7, 2022, that a hacker had obtained code signing certificates for GitHub Desktop and Atom. Following ...
WordPress to use GitHub as a central communication tool
The WordPress Community Team seems to be considering standardizing their project management tools by using GitHub. The Community Team will ...
GitHub introduces a new code scanning option
GitHub introduced a new code scanning option named Default Setup, which automatically set up code scanning without using a .yaml ...
Slack’s private GitHub repositories are stolen
Slack announced a security issue involving unauthorized access to a subset of Slack’s code repositories. No downloaded repositories contained customer ...
GitHub’s Secret Scanning is now available for everyone for free
GitHub begins the gradual public beta rollout of Secret Scanning for public repositories today and expects all users to have ...
GitHub Copilot is now available for businesses
GitHub Copilot for Business is officially here to help organizations in coding for $19 USD per user per month. GitHub ...
GitHub introduces private vulnerability reporting
GitHub introduces private vulnerability reporting making it easy for security researchers to report vulnerabilities directly to maintainers. When a security ...
90% of Fortune 100 companies are using open-source software
According to the report, companies are creating new OSS communities, which is compelling other organizations to start OSPOs to coordinate ...
Write code without the keyboard with ”Hey, GitHub”
The GitHub Next team announced an AI-powered project at the company's recent event. The voice assistant allows software developers to ...
GitHub’s Copilot sued over software piracy
Software developers became concerned about Copilot's potential to infringe their rights through its code suggestions. 11 popular open-source licenses that ...
GitHub fixed a bug allowing hackers to take over repositories
Checkmarx SCS reported the vulnerability to GitHub and GitHub classified it as High severity and fixed the vulnerability. The vulnerability ...
Microsoft announced first quarter results
Microsoft announced that GitHub has reached over 90 million active users and an annual recurring revenue of $1 billion. This ...
Researchers find fake PoC GitHub repositories spreading malware
Researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science stated that there are thousands of fake PoCs in GitHub repositories. ...
Scammers trying to sell fake PoCs for Exchange vulnerability on GitHub
Scammers are trying to sell fake proofs-of-concept on GitHub for Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, which are under attack. Some of the ...
Hackers are targeting GitHub accounts by impersonating CircleCI
GitHub Security announced that hackers are targeting GitHub users with a phishing campaign by impersonating CircleCI. The phishing site looks ...
Concerns raised over GitHub’s cookie policy
GitHub's new privacy policy change allows the platform to place tracking cookies on some subdomains, such as resources.github.com. Users announced ...
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