Here you will find all the articles with the tag: GitHub.
The Linux data compression tool xz-Utils is available again through GitHub. Last month, a backdoor was discovered, prompting GitHub to temporarily disable the tool's repositories. Lasse Collin, the developer of xz-Utils, announced via his personal website that the repositories are available agai... Read more
6 days ago
The amount of secrets leaked in public GitHub repositories is higher than ever. A report puts the total number of new leaks at 12.8 million by 2023. 12.8 million secrets were not properly shielded in public GitHub repositories in 2023. As a result, sensitive data is visible to everyone. Among t... Read more
1 month ago
Microsoft recently made GitHub Copilot Enterprise generally available. With it, developers can now better query their own codebase and processes. According to Microsoft, the introduction of the improved version of GitHub Copilot Enterprise is primarily intended to help developers more with propr... Read more
2 months ago
An authentication token for GitHub was accidentally shared publicly by an employee. With this token, the entire source code on Mercedes' GitHub Enterprise Server was viewable. RedHunt Labs found the authentication token during a routine scan in January. CTO Shubham Mittal contacted TechCrunch to... Read more
3 months ago
AI assistance in writing programming code does not always turn out to be positive. Based on research, overall code quality appears to have dropped since the introduction of GitHub Copilot a year ago. The GitClear study looked at the quality of generated code one year after the introduction of t... Read more
3 months ago
Using self-hosted runners in PyTorch for GitHub operations leads to several vulnerabilities, security engineer John Stawinski IV discovered. This can lead to many malicious actions. According to security engineer John Stawinski IV, Meta's popular open-source framework PyTorch uses so-called self... Read more
3 months ago
GitHub has now made its own Certifications program generally accessible. Interested users can now apply for four certifications. GitHub recently made its certifications program, previously available only to GitHub partners and employees, now generally accessible. With these certifications, a... Read more
3 months ago
GitHub Copilot aims to help programmers do their jobs faster. It recently made Copilot Chat generally available, a "core part" of its own developer platform, according to GitHub. With Copilot Chat, a programmer can interact with an AI assistant to translate code to another programming language, ... Read more
3 months ago
GitHub users should activate two-factor authentication (2FA) soon. In fact, as of Jan. 19, 2024, it will be mandatory. Otherwise, they will lose a lot of functionality, the developer platform reports. That's according to emails to users. If they are not using 2FA by then, the functionality of th... Read more
4 months ago
Microsoft has already released a preview of version 17.8. The timing is remarkable since Visual Studio 17.7 has only just become available. Again, this version has several new features. Microsoft didn't waste any time and released the first preview for successor v17.8 just after the general rele... Read more
8 months ago
