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
IBM joins the Presto Foundation through acquisition of Ahana
IBM purchase of the venture-backed SaaS for Presto startup company further builds its open-source portfolio.
Last week IBM announced that it had acquired Ahana, a startup SaaS company that offers managed and commercial versions of the Presto open-source distributed query engine. In buying Ahana,... Read more
Slack loses code repositories to unauthorized user
An unauthorized user gained access to Slack's GitHub repositories. The user managed to download the repositories before Slack plugged the leak.
The damage appears limited, as none of the stolen repositories involve Slack's source code or user data. The organization stresses that source code and... Read more
Check Point finds ten malicious Python packages in PyPi
Hackers increasingly target Python repositories. Security experts from Check Point recently discovered ten malware packages in PyPi, a popular Python repository.
Malware in Python repositories is typically distributed in familiar-looking packages and highly dangerous. Developers that fall victim... Read more
JetBrains launches on-premises version of Space
JetBrains launched an on-premises beta of JetBrains Space. Users no longer depend on the hosted version.
The on-premises version allows developers to use the tool in environments that require on-premises security policies and further integration.
JetBrains Space is a source code and DevOps ... Read more
17 malicious packages found in Node.js Package Manager (NPM)
Another 17 malicious packages have been discovered in an open-source repository by researchers. In recent times, it has become clearer that these repositories can, have been, and will continue to be used to spread malware.
The malicious code was found in NPM, where 11 million developers trade mo... Read more
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... Read more
GitHub announces new features plus sponsors for companies
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... Read more
Microsoft introduces uniform search engine for code examples
Microsoft has added a whole new experience especially for developers on docs.microsoft.com. It is a uniform search engine for examples of code.
With the new search engine, Microsoft is trying to make it easier for developers to discover relevant examples of code, no matter what Microsoft product or ... Read more