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 ...

Background: GitHub is the defacto repository for open-source code in the world. It’s like a combination of YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit, but for programmers and the codes they produce. Sure ...

GitHub is a way for software engineers to share, shape, and collaborate on code. And it's also a good way of teaching people to do the same thing. John Britton is GitHub's "education liaison."That ...

Last year, GitHub revealed its plan to store all of its open source software in an Arctic vault as part of its Archive Program. Now the code-hosting platform is done making sure future generations ...

GitHub Copilot Chat is a chat interface that allows developers to ask and receive answers to coding-related questions directly within a supported IDE. It is currently in open beta and available for al ...

Now, GitHub will empower open-source developers with these alerts too, and for free. Once enabled, GitHub directly notifies developers of leaked secrets in code.

Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. GitHub is launching an AI coding agent ...

Gamma hit the "open-source button" for VS Code's GitHub repository on stage at a Microsoft conference in 2015 as part of his demonstration of the editor's broad extension support.

GitHub has unveiled the Arctic Code Vault, a new project to archive the planet's open-source software and ensure it's usable in a future world that may not have the machines or knowledge to read ...

Microsoft’s GitHub today announced that it has acquired Semmle, a code analysis tool that helps developers and security researchers discover potential vulnerabilities in their code.Semmle takes ...