GitHub has put the final touches on its Arctic Code Vault with a nearly 1.5 tonne steel box covered in AI-generated etchings that aim to entice future generations to explore it. GitHub initially ...

A large GitHub survey of open-source projects has found open-source software development is almost completely dominated by men, and that most programmers neglect to write documentation. While people ...

The open source funding problem is very real, but a slew of initiatives have emerged of late, with startups, corporations, and venture capitalists launching various programs to support some of the ...

Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHub's Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of programmers.

A surge in supply chain attacks has put open-source software risk, prompting GitHub to strengthen security across its npm ecosystem. The company, which operates the world’s largest code repository, is ...

Then they traveled to Svalbard, found a decommissioned coal mine, and archived the code in deep storage underground – but not before they made a very cinematic video about it. For the combination of ...

Tom Preston-Werner cites the MIT License for its brevity, compared to the wordy GNU General Public License, and the permissiveness of its terms The CEO of popular code-sharing site GitHub is endorsing ...

Why it matters: What if companies and independent software developers could spot security flaws in their programs before releasing them to the public? GitHub now has a tool that can help them do just ...

GitHub has become one of the most important places for open source software developers to publish code and collaborate on projects. But, ironically, most projects hosted publicly on GitHub aren't open ...

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. Hundreds of thousands of students are enrolled in ...

Software developers that maintain and contribute to open-source projects will now be able to put out a virtual tip far on their GitHub accounts, thanks to a new feature called GitHub Sponsors that the ...