GitHub CEO denies that their source code was hacked
CEO Nat Friedman calls the repo post a fake and promises to make impersonation more difficult.
Recently a site called Resynth (resynth1943.net) posted a link to a Wayback Machine snapshot of a GitHub repo that appeared to come from GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. The poster had labelled the repo as: "T...
China is building a GitHub alternative amid trade war with the US
China wants to make a domestic version of GitHub, the open-source software development platform. The Chinese government is turning to an old and almost forgotten platform that was named Gitee. In a recent report from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information, they said that they want to turn...
Intel develops AI that can identify the purpose of a line of code
Intel, together with researchers from MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology, created an AI engine that can determine the purpose of a line of code. This is an important step in the development of an AI tool capable of developing applications on its own.
Last year, Intel assembled a researc...
OutSystems and Boncode code analysis service reduces errors
OutSystems starts a collaboration with Boncode, a Dutch supplier of software analysis services. Together, they provide OutSystems customers with a resource to ensure that the developed applications are optimally implemented for maintenance, reliability, performance and security. The new service comp...
Microsoft makes open-source version MS-DOS available on GitHub
Microsoft makes MS-DOS once again open-source. This time the tech giant published the code on GitHub. These are MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0. This follows an earlier decision by Microsoft to make MS-DOS open-source via the Computer History Museum - a choice it made in 2014.
The choice to publish GitHub on MS...