Here you will find all the articles with the tag: GitHub.
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
12 months ago
The feature makes it easier for researchers and maintainers to report and fix vulnerabilities on public repositories. This week GitHub announced that private vulnerability reporting is now generally available on all repositories belonging to an organization. The new dedicated communications c... Read more
1 year ago
GitHub is making a lot of promises with the announcement of Copilot X. How extensive are the AI options going to be for programmers? GitHub launched Copilot, an AI-supported tool that specializes in programming code, in 2021. The new Copilot X relies on GPT-4, OpenAI's latest AI model. The deve... Read more
1 year ago
GitHub has introduced GPT-4 functionality in Copilot, its assistant for writing code. With Copilot X, developers can write, check and test code faster. According to GitHub, Copilot X is an expanded version of its existing AI-based code assistant tool Copilot. Copilot is already supported by Open... Read more
1 year ago
The move aims to strengthen the software supply chain and prevent attacks from bad actors through social engineering or similar account takeover attempts. The two-factor authentication mandate was initially announced by GitHub last May with the intention of making it mandatory by the end of 2023. ... Read more
1 year ago
The service is designed to detect leaked secrets across the entire publishing history of a repository, including sensitive data such as API keys, account passwords, authentication tokens, and other confidential information attackers can use to breach networks, steal data, or impersonate a company. ... Read more
1 year ago
GitHub, its parent company Microsoft and nonprofit OpenAI are opposing a class action lawsuit by independent developers over possible copyright abuse in GitHub Pilot. According to the three software specialists, the accusation by the independent developers is unjustified. The lawsuit now pendin... Read more
1 year ago
Researchers at Trellix said they have patched nearly 62,000 open-source projects susceptible to a 15-year-old path traversal vulnerability in the Python ecosystem. The bug, tracked under CVE-2007-4559, was discovered by Trellix's team in Python’s tarfile module late last year. It was first rep... Read more
1 year ago
The platform grew from three million to one hundred million users in less than a decade. GitHub is clearly loved. Exactly ten years ago, three million developers used the platform. That number had grown to 28 million by the time Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018. Three months ago, the 90 millio... Read more
1 year ago
Researchers warn that hackers can use GitHub Codespaces to host and deliver malware. According to a new report from Trend Micro, threat actors can abuse the port forwarding feature in GitHub Codespaces to host and distribute malware and malicious scripts. GitHub Codespaces became widely avai... Read more
1 year ago
