Hugging Face, GitHub, others fight to protect open-source in AI Act
A coalition of companies argues in a fire letter that open-source innovation should be protected in the new EU AI Act. By doing so, they want to ensure that any requirements do not hinder open-source AI development work.
The alliance of AI developers, including Hugging Face, GitHub, EleutherAI, ... Read more
GitHub moves to support passwordless authentication with passkeys
Developer platform GitHub now supports passwordless authentication in a public beta form. This allows users to update their security keys to use passkeys for login purposes.
Passkeys allow users to associate login information with hardware-based keys. These keys can be used with other authentica... Read more
GitHub Enterprise Cloud gets limit on audit log search queries
GitHub is instituting a limit on audit log search queries for Enterprise Cloud. Users can perform a maximum of 15 search queries per minute starting August 1. The aim is to relieve pressure on data stores.
Through the audit log API, Enterprise Cloud users can automatically pull in near real-time... Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 strengthens collaboration, observability
GitHub has given GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) a lot of new functionality with version 3.9. The update should enable developers to collaborate better and provide more observability.
In the new version of GHES, GitHub Projects gets more functionality. The tool allows developers to better collab... Read more
Microsoft GitHub involved in DDoS attack on open source library
Servers of the project GMP suffered a DDoS attack from an odd attacker last month. In fact, investigations revealed that hundreds of Microsoft servers were involved in the attack. According to the GMP project, GitHub's architecture provides a quick pass to such attacks, Microsoft shifts the blame. ... Read more
Research shows Millions of GitHub repos vulnerable to RepoJacking
A vulnerability in GitHub repos allows attackers to deploy supply chain attacks that could impact a large number of users, according to researchers.
New research by Aqua Security shows that 9 million of GitHub repositories are potentially vulnerable to an attack dubbed "RepoJacking". The researc... Read more
“Developers are leveraging AI tools, collaboration key to success”
A recent survey by GitHub and Wakefield Research reveals the rising influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on developers. The study, involving 500 developers from large US firms, focused on productivity, collaboration, and AI's role in enterprise settings.
An impressive 92% of developers alre... Read more
GitHub introduces new Activity View
GitHub has introduced new Activity View functionality in beta. This gives developers better insight into pushes and pull request mergers from other users in a repository.
Among other things, the insight provided by the new functionality shows the activity of individual developers or branches in ... Read more
Microsoft makes Azure Linux generally available
The announcement follows the CBL-Mariner project announcement from last year.
This week at Microsoft's Build event, the software giant announced that it has made Azure Linux generally available. Azure Linux is Microsoft's own distribution of the open source operating system.
Jim Perrin, princ... Read more
Copyright lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI continues
GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI will have to defend their usage of third-party programming code in a U.S. court. The three parties wanted to get rid of two specific allegations before the case actually starts. For example, they will still have to argue the legitimacy of Codex reproducing code that is ... Read more