Open-source licensing can get ... complicated. These days, many programs are 20 percent original code on top of 80 percent previously open-sourced code. To help address the resulting licensing ...

The GitHub Arctic Vault program is part of the now Microsoft-owned code repository GitHub, where programmers can share code with others to check for bugs or for them to implement in their own programs ...

GitHub Universe 2023 is underway in San Francisco and the developer centric platform has announced a slew of new AI-powered features for developers. At the forefront of these is GitHub Copilot Chat, a ...

When something called Imageoptimiser said it could improve Erik Michaels-Ober's software on the GitHub code-sharing website last Sunday, Michaels-Ober wasn't sure what to make of it. In fact, he was ...

In a major announcement for developers, GitHub has launched Codespaces — a feature that lets you code directly on the web. Think of this as a virtual Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on the ...

Github on Monday is launching a more robust version of its Developer Program, adding a new range of benefits and making the whole program free for effectively any developer. Launched in 2014, the ...

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Every developer knows that it’s a bad idea to hardcode security credentials into source code. Yet it happens and when it does, the consequences can be dire. Until now, GitHub only made its secret ...