Web Summit Rio 2023: Building an app in 18 minutes with GitHub Copilot X
GitHub CEO Thomas Domke demonstrated the power of GitHub Copilot X live on stage. ⌘ Read more
Manage your application security stack effectively with the tool status page
Code scanning’s tool status gives you a bird’s eye view of your application security stack, allowing you to quickly confirm everything is working, or troubleshoot any tool in your application security arsenal. ⌘ Read more
All In for Students 2023 cohort: our biggest group of open source leaders yet!
The second cohort of All In for Students has graduated! With a cohort 12 times as large as the pilot, learn about how this group of college students is leaning into the future of technology. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: April 2023
In April, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into three March incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. ⌘ Read more
More than meets the pull request: maintainers talk contributions
Creating an open source project can feel a bit like sending out an open invite to a party—will it be a roaring good time, or will you unbegrudginly dine on leftover junk food for the following week after nobody shows? When the first guest arrives, you breathe a sigh of relief. The party’s a success, […] ⌘ Read more
Dependabot relieves alert fatigue from npm devDependencies
A new alert rules engine for Dependabot leverages alert metadata to identify and auto-dismiss up to 15% of alerts as false positives. ⌘ Read more
This month on The ReadME Podcast: exploring the fusion of technology and progress
Open source’s impact on nuclear fusion research, adapting to technological change, and mastering GitHub essentials. ⌘ Read more
ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, & the Coming Code Apocalypse
Listen now (24 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - April 27, 2023 ⌘ Read more
There is a “right” way to make something like GitHub CoPilot, but Microsoft did not choose that way. They chose one of the most exploitative options available to them. For that reason, I hope they face significant consequences, though I doubt they will in the current climate. I also hope that CoPilot is shut down, though I’m pretty certain it will not be.
Other than access to the data behind it, Microsoft has nothing special that allows it to create something like CoPilot. The technology behind it has been around for at least a decade. There could be a “public” version of this same tool made by a cooperating group of people volunteering, “leasing”, or selling their source code into it. There could likewise be an ethically-created corporate version. Such a thing would give individual developers or organizations the choice to include their code in the tool, possibly for a fee if that’s something they want or require. The creators of the tool would have to acknowledge that they have suppliers–the people who create the code that makes their tool possible–instead of simply stealing what they need and pretending that’s fine.
This era we’re living through, with large companies stomping over all laws and regulations, blatantly stealing other people’s work for their own profit, cannot come to an end soon enough. It is destroying innovation, and we all suffer for that. Having one nifty tool like CoPilot that gives a bit of convenience is nowhere near worth the tremendous loss that Microsoft’s actions in this instace are creating for everyone.
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net That’s a dissembling answer from him. Github is owned by Microsoft, and CoPilot is a for-pay product. It would have no value, and no one would pay for it, were it not filled with code snippets that no one consented to giving to Microsoft for this purpose. Microsoft will pay $0 to the people who wrote the code that makes CoPilot valuable to them.
In short, it’s a gigantic resource-grab. They’re greedy assholes taking advantage of the hard work of millions of people without giving a single cent back to any of them. I hope they’re sued so often that this product is destroyed.
CLI tricks every developer should know
Learn some tips, tricks, and tools for mastering the command line from GitHub’s own developers. ⌘ Read more
Git security vulnerabilities announced
A new set of Git releases were published to address a variety of security vulnerabilities. All users are encouraged to upgrade. Take a look at GitHub’s view of the latest round of releases. ⌘ Read more
Gearing up for Maintainer Month this May!
Are you looking for ways to support open source maintainers? Maintainer Month is the perfect opportunity! ⌘ Read more
Shaping the GitHub of the future as COO
GitHub is driving the future of software development and, after 10 years as a Hubber, I’m more energized than ever as I take on the role of COO to help bring our vision to life. ⌘ Read more
Announcing GitHub Actions Deployment Protection Rules, now in public beta
Create and share your own deployment protection rules, or use the rules from our great partners, like Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic, NodeSource, Sentry, and ServiceNow, to control your deployments with more confidence. And the API is open for the community to build their own rules to make GitHub Enterprise Cloud even better. ⌘ Read more
Private vulnerability reporting now generally available
Open source maintainers and security researchers embrace a new best practice to report and fix vulnerabilities. ⌘ Read more
Introducing npm package provenance
How to verifiably link npm packages to their source repository and build instructions. ⌘ Read more
GitHub joins industry commitment to curb cyber mercenaries
GitHub is proud to join 40 companies endorsing the Cybersecurity Tech Accord principles limiting offensive operations in cyberspace. ⌘ Read more
Multi-repository enablement: effortlessly scale code scanning across your repositories
We’ve gotten great feedback on default setup, a simple way to set up code scanning on your repository. Now, you have the ability to use default setup across your organization’s repositories, in just one click. ⌘ Read more
3 benefits of migrating and consolidating your source code
Explore how migrating your source code and collaboration history to GitHub can lead to some surprising benefits. ⌘ Read more
How generative AI is changing the way developers work
Rapid advancements in generative AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot are accelerating the next wave of software development. Here’s what you need to know. ⌘ Read more
Ensuring compliance in developer workflows
How GitHub Enterprise ensures secure and compliant developer workflows for highly regulated industries. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next
Meet the individuals that make up the first GitHub Accelerator cohort and learn about how GitHub is helping bring their visions to reality. ⌘ Read more
Introducing the newest GitHub Shop collection
From dog bowl bottles to fanny packs, explore the latest and greatest GitHub merchandise. ⌘ Read more
Generative AI-enabled compliance for software development
Explore how generative AI may soon help enable optimizing some of the foundational components of compliance. ⌘ Read more
How enabling developers can help drive financial inclusion
Explore how creating a great developer experience can help provide a more inclusive financial services environment. ⌘ Read more
What developers need to know about generative AI
Generative AI has been dominating the news lately—but what exactly is it? Here’s what you need to know, and what it means for developers. ⌘ Read more
Game Bytes · April 2023
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! ⌘ Read more
Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade. Upgrading Rails weekly Every […] ⌘ Read more
Pwning Pixel 6 with a leftover patch
In this post, I’ll look at a security-related change in version r40p0 of the Arm Mali driver that was AWOL in the January update of the Pixel bulletin, where other patches from r40p0 was applied, and how these two lines of changes can be exploited to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root from a malicious app. This highlights how treacherous it can be when backporting security changes. ⌘ Read more
Bring your enterprise together with enterprise accounts for all
With enterprise accounts for all, your organization can take advantage of all that GitHub Enterprise has to offer, from GitHub Actions and GitHub Advanced Security, to Copilot. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: March 2023
In March, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into a February incident that resulted in degraded performance for GitHub Codespaces. ⌘ Read more
Building organization-wide governance and re-use for CI/CD and automation with GitHub Actions
Many of us are aware of the benefits that a strong focus on automation can bring, particularly in our development workflow and DevOps lifecycle. But silos across businesses can lead to duplication of effort, and potential to lose out on best practices. In this post, we’ll explore how CI/CD can be shared across your entire organization alongside polici … ⌘ Read more
What’s new with GitHub Sponsors
GitHub Sponsors is now generally available for organizations. Also, new tooling for bulk sponsorships and an update on how we’re ensuring sustainability for GitHub Sponsors. ⌘ Read more
Level up monitoring and reporting for your enterprise
A high-quality audit log is an essential tool for enterprises to ensure compliance, maintain security, investigate issues, and promote accountability. ⌘ Read more
Calling all open source maintainers
We are building a private space for maintainers to connect with peers, preview features, and learn from each other! ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I always liked bit.
I am disappointed that a GUI app would not at least have screenshots.
CodeQL zero to hero part 1: the fundamentals of static analysis for vulnerability research
Learn more about static analysis and how to use it for security research!
In this blog post series, we will take a closer look at static analysis concepts, present GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL, and teach you how to leverage static analysis for security research by writing custom CodeQL queries. ⌘ Read more
Improvements to CodeQL’s data flow library for C++
These changes will improve the experience for custom query authors and enable better precision in some of our standard queries. Learn how to enable them for your custom queries. ⌘ Read more
Introducing self-service SBOMs
Developers and compliance teams get a new SBOM generation tool for cloud repositories. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Galaxy 2023: Empower developer teams with a new developer experience
Learn how GitHub’s one, integrated platform–powered by AI and secure at every step—helps developer teams be more productive, collaborative, and efficient. ⌘ Read more
Announcing the GitHub Actions extension for VS Code
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the public beta of the official GitHub Actions VS Code extension, which provides support for authoring and editing workflows and helps you manage workflow runs without leaving your IDE. ⌘ Read more
We updated our RSA SSH host key
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com. ⌘ Read more
Build a secure code mindset with the GitHub Secure Code Game
Writing secure code is as much of an art as writing functional code, and it is the only way to write quality code. Learn how our Secure Code Game can provide you with hands-on training to spot and fix security issues in your code so that you can build a secure code mindset. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience
GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions on docs, and adopt OpenAI’s GPT-4 for a more personalized developer experience. ⌘ Read more
Partnering with EU policymakers to ensure the Cyber Resilience Act works for developers
We’re looking forward to working with policymakers to improve cybersecurity and support developers. ⌘ Read more
Godot 4.0 Release Party 🎉
We are delighted to host the Godot 4.0 Release Party at GitHub HQ on Wednesday, March 22 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. And you’re invited! ⌘ Read more
How the Grafana Alerting team scales their issue management with GitHub Projects
Hear from Grafana’s Armand Grillet about how his team uses GitHub Projects. ⌘ Read more
GitHub celebrates the ingenuity of developers with disabilities in new video series
Learn how developers with disabilities are pushing the boundaries of accessibility with ingenuity, open source, and generative AI on The ReadME Project. ⌘ Read more
Highlights from Git 2.40
The first Git release of the year is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.40. ⌘ Read more