Python has become the most popular programming language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks has also soared, according to GitHub’s Octoverse 2024 report.

GitHub and OpenAI have launched a technical preview of a new AI tool called Copilot, which lives inside the Visual Studio Code editor and autocompletes code snippets.

GitHub promises that this new system can remediate more than two-thirds of the vulnerabilities it finds — often without the developers having to edit any code themselves.

Microsoft is acquiring npm, a major JavaScript-developer platform, which it is planning to integrate with GitHub.

GitHub announced Monday that it will acquire npm, a JavaScript package manager. npm is a key part of the JavaScript ecosystem, home to more than 1.3 ...

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Octocat isn't just GitHub's logo or a mascot — it's an inside joke shared with 28 million software developers.

His GitHub page shows that he also has a JavaScript Windows 95 emulator that also runs on all current computing platforms.

Last night, GitHub was hit with a massive denial of service attack. Some time Wednesday, scripts belonging to the internet giant Baidu began directing traffic to two specific GitHub pages: one run ...