GitHub has enabled push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental exposure of secrets such as access tokens and API keys when pushing new code. Today's announcement comes ...

GitHub is partnering with Stanford University on a new initiative designed to protect the legal rights of open source developers. Through its $1 million Developer Defense Fund, GitHub is creating the ...

With push protection, GitHub’s secret scanning blocks users from pushing secrets to a repository, while giving them the option to bypass the block. GitHub has begun rolling out push protection for all ...

GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. As GitHub CEO Nat Friedman ...

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks also has skyrocketed on the site. The rise of both underscore the surge in data science, ...

Rubrik announced a raft of new cybersecurity features, including protection for GitHub, which has become a prime target for threat actors. The company's announcement last week featured the protection ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More GitHub today launched the GitHub Security Lab, an ongoing effort to ...

Microsoft's GitHub platform isn't exactly known for activism. But in China, the code-sharing platform is now home to an online protest movement demanding better working conditions at the country's ...

Microsoft is acquiring Node package manager npm Inc., officials announced on March 16. (Neither company is sharing the purchase price.) Microsoft plans to integrate GitHub with npm with the intent of ...