Last year, Microsoft paid $7.5 billion to buy GitHub, the online home of thousands of open source software projects that power apps and sites ranging from Facebook to Walmart.com. The acquisition, ...

Four years into its journey as a company, GitHub remained something of an independent. The startup, which helps companies and developers build software, rebuffed the repeated advances of venture ...

Prominent GitLab users include GNOME, F-Droid, and Inkscape. Gitea is another relative newcomer, with bug tracking, wiki ...

At Open Source Summit Europe in France, GitHub COO Erica Brescia said: "99% of software projects are built on open source." With 96-million open-source projects from across the world living on the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. One of the first things a developer will be told after they join a new software project is to ...

Software developers that maintain and contribute to open-source projects will now be able to put out a virtual tip far on their GitHub accounts, thanks to a new feature called GitHub Sponsors that the ...

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why. GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based ...

An attacker submitting changes to an open source repository on GitHub could cause downstream software projects that include the latest version of a component to compile updates with malicious code.

GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday. The code-hosting portal is just ...

Bubby Rayber's wedding date was coming up fast. Too fast. It was April, and in less than a month, he was supposed to host a daylong event for about 1,000 guests on the southern tip of India, and he ...