The company bills itself as the world's leading software development platform, and says over 150 million developers use GitHub, as well as 90% of Fortune 100 companies. GitHub is owned by Microsoft.

Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, ...

"Using a maliciously crafted URL it's possible to cause the credential request coming from Git to be misinterpreted by Github ...

Managing dotfiles with git can save time and provide a robust backup option. Storing dotfiles in a version control system ...

GitHub Copilot in VS Code offers AI-driven coding, repository-specific insights, and automated workflows to enhance developer ...

GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. Stars are ...

The service leverages advanced AI models, including Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, with limits.

As I mentioned two years ago, this system takes a while to get used to: GitHub has a bit of overhead in terms of understanding the correct terminology for different aspects of its file management ...