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GitHub to ban passwords starting in 2021

December 17 2 min Security

The platform will move to token based authentication next August Microsoft's GitHub has announced that it plans to stop accepting account passwords as a way to authenticate Git operations. Starting August 13, 2021, the platform will accept only token based authentication. They will run a two wee...

GitHub announces new features plus sponsors for companies

December 9 2 min Devops

New offerings include a long-awaited "Dark Mode". GitHub this week announced a number of new features and products at its virtual developer conference GitHub Universe 2020. GitHub is a leading provider of hosting for software development code version control and claims that over 50 million devel...

GitHub: open source security vulnerabilities take years to detect

December 4 2 min Devops

Research also shows that once detected, bugs are fixed quickly. GitHub this week released its 2020 State of the Octoverse report. In it, they highlighted the increased important of open source tools and their growing role in software development. The organisation spent 2020 following over 56 ...

GitHub saves ‘Greatest Hits’ in Arctic Code Vault

November 20 2 min Devops

GitHub has announced a new addition to its Archive Program. The organization will save thousands of repositories from its platform on piqlFilm and store them in a permanently frozen mine shaft in Svalbard. The Greatest Hits collection consists of a collection of the 12,000 most popular repositor...

GitHub CEO denies that their source code was hacked

November 6 2 min Devops

CEO Nat Friedman calls the repo post a fake and promises to make impersonation more difficult. Recently a site called Resynth (resynth1943.net) posted a link to a Wayback Machine snapshot of a GitHub repo that appeared to come from GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. The poster had labelled the repo as: "T...

GitHub threatens to ban users uploading YouTube-dl copies

November 4 2 min Trends

GitHub has issued a warning for users who upload copies of YouTube-dl's source code to the platform. After the platform previously removed the download program because of a DMCA takedown, many angry users uploaded duplicates of the software. The removal of YouTube-dl from GitHub angered many use...

Google Cloud adds support for Cloud Native Buildpacks

October 13 2 min Cloud

Adoption of the open-source technology will speed up the creation of containerized applications. Last week Google announced that it will be adding support for Cloud Native Buildpacks several of its cloud platform services. Buildpacks were first conceived by Salesforce's Heroku subsidiary in 2...

AWS releases CloudFormation Guard compliance tool

October 6 2 min Cloud

AWS had launched its new CloudFormation Guard compliance tool. The new service helps enterprises keep their AWS infrastructure and application resources in compliance. Amazon Web Services has released CloudFormation Guard, an open-source command line interface (CLI) designed to help AWS admins m...

GitHub unveils new Code Scanning security feature for GitHub Users

October 2 2 min Security

GitHub unveiled its new security features named Code Scanning. It is available for users on paid and free accounts. The new feature was created by GitHub to help coders prevent vulnerabilities from reaching the final users. It can analyze every pull request, commit and merge, identifying the fla...

GitHub releases an official command-line interface for the platform

September 23 2 min Devops

GitHub just released their version 1.0 of their CLI, allowing interaction and repository control from the command line. The hosted repository has it’s foundation on Git, which is a command-line tool in itself. In addition to this, a project called hub gives users a CLI for GitHub. Getting conf...

GitHub released beta integration for Microsoft Teams

September 15 2 min Collaboration

GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, has announced a public beta of a GitHub integration for Microsoft Teams. The beta means that developers on GitHub now can add the GitHub app to Microsoft Teams, the same way that they have been able to do with Slack. GitHub and Slack came together back in 201...

China is building a GitHub alternative amid trade war with the US

August 26 2 min Devops

China wants to make a domestic version of GitHub, the open-source software development platform. The Chinese government is turning to an old and almost forgotten platform that was named Gitee. In a recent report from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information, they said that they want to turn...

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