Microsoft's biggest hurdle with its just-announced $7.5 billion GitHub acquisition isn't figuring out how to integrate its services with GitHub. It's not how/when/whether to try to host parts of ...

Microsoft's Antonio Goncalves put the advanced GitHub Copilot Chat AI tool to work in a coding challenge, and he was impressed with the results. The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) is a Java ...

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, prompting a significant restructuring as the platform integrates into Microsoft's CoreAI team under Jay Parikh. Dohmke, who is departing to found a new venture, ...

Trojanized npm packages spread new variant that executes in pre-install phase, hitting thousands within days A self-propagating malware targeting node package managers (npm) is back for a second round ...

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...