An EU-commissioned study in the impact of open source returns mixed results
The economic benefits highlighted by the study are enormous. However, the European Union is on the "back foot" when it comes to implementation. The study comes from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect). The study's authors in...
Linus Torvalds says GitHub merges are ‘useless garbage’ as new NTFS support comes to Linux 5.15
Linus Torvalds plans to pull Paragon Software’s NTFS driver into the 5.15 kernel source. However, he complained about the use of GitHub merge in the submission, saying that it creates “absolutely useless garbage merges.”
Early last month, Torvalds made it known to Paragon Software that it ...
Microsoft planning to introduce Visual Studio Code for the Web
Microsoft looks ready to bring a code editor that runs entirely in the browser, named Visual Studio Code for the Web. It revealed all this in a post introducing the new service that was put up yesterday and then taken down later, possibly because it was published prematurely.
It is expected to r...
GitHub is transitioning users to 2FA
GitHub users are urged by the platform to enable two-factor authentication, as it seeks to change how accounts are protected from attacks.
GitHub’s Mike Hanley posted a blog this week saying that beginning August 13, GitHub stopped accepting account passwords when authenticating Git operations...
Google unveils the Allstar GitHub app
The app provides for continuous enforcement of best security practices
This week Google announced the release of the Allstar GitHub application. The app enables what the tech giant calls "automated continuous enforcement of security best practices" in GitHub projects.
The new app works by ena...
GitHub Codespaces available to Enterprise users
To kick off the rollout of its browser-based coding environment, Codespaces, to a wider audience, GitHub is extending access to GitHub Team and Enterprise (cloud) plans.
GitHub is owned by Microsoft and has announced that internally, it transitioned from a macOS model to Codespaces, which is now...
Stack Overflow Survey reveals developer preferences
The survey revealed the most popular programming languages, web frameworks, databases, and cloud platforms, among other choices.
Stack Overflow recently published their latest developer survey, which highlighted the overwhelmingly large share occupied by Microsoft Development tools.
Trends fo...
Customer feedback inspires changes in Visual Studio Code 1.58
Microsoft Visual Studio Code 1.58 has been released along with modifications to its Workspace Trust feature introduced in the former update. It also includes terminal support for editors and many other enhancements.
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code, version 1.58, has made some alterations to its...
Updated GitHub policies vow to eliminate exploitative code to protect against attacks
GitHub, the open-source platform for developers, has officially stated that they are updating their site's policies regarding exploit code and malware uploaded onto the platform\
Details about the updated policies
GitHub has stated that they will not allow their platform to be used in direct ...
GitHub data from Twilio leaked after Codecov hack
CPaaS company Twilio has fallen victim to the Codecov breach. Via the vulnerability in Codecov's software, an attacker managed to copy some of the company's GitHub repositories.
Last month, it became known that software auditing company Codecov had fallen victim to a hack. An attacker had manage...
GitHub powers NASA’s helicopter and gives developers special badge
GutHub wants to recognize the developers with a special "badge".
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history this week, thanks in large part to almost 12,000 open source developers. The helicopter's launch was the first powered flight on another planet. Ingenuity proved that it’s possible for a...
Kubernetes 1.21 deprecates Pod Security and adds dual networking, cronjobs and more
The latest release unloads pod security, adds dual IPv4/IPv6 networking, among other things.
The Kubernetes Release Team has given the green light to version 1.21 of the open-source container orchestration system. This new version marks the first Kubernetes release of 2021. The version offers ma...