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Windows Malware on GitHub Wants to Steal Your Crypto

Attackers are hiding malware in fake GitHub repositories crafted to seem popular and legitimate, but in reality, they're just vessels to deploy software that swipes crypto.

By Kate Irwin
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GitHub's AI-Powered Copilot Feature Takes Off

Individual developers can now pay $10 per month to have AI help them code.

By Nathaniel Mott

GitHub Reportedly Suspends Accounts Related to Sanctioned Russian Orgs

Even if the developers are no longer working for the organizations in question.

By Nathaniel Mott

GitHub Ditches Password-Based Authentication for Many Workflows

GitHub now officially requires token-based authentication for its command line interface, third-party apps, and services that access Git repositories hosted on the platform.

By Nathaniel Mott

GitHub's Copilot Is an OpenAI-Powered Coding Partner

GitHub's new Copilot feature uses artificial intelligence to help programmers while they code.

By Nathaniel Mott

GitHub Restores Youtube-dl, a Video Downloading Tool Ensnared in DMCA Dispute

GitHub took down the project last month after receiving a DMCA takedown request from the Recording Industry Association of America. But on Monday, the company said the original claim overreached its legal bounds.

By Michael Kan

Microsoft Buries All GitHub Open-Source Projects in the Arctic

A 21TB snapshot of open-source software has been preserved on 186 reels of film and buried in a decommissioned Arctic coal mine deep inside hundreds of meters of permafrost.

By Matthew Humphries

GitHub Employee Resigns Over Company's Contract with ICE

Some employees at GitHub have been demanding the company cancel its contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the federal agency's treatment of immigrants at the US border. However, Github's CEO has defended the contract.

By Michael Kan
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Hacker Tries to Ransom Github Code Repositories For Bitcoin

The attack started only about day ago and has also been hitting code repositories on similar services Bitbucket and GitLab. To break in, the hacker appears to be targeting accounts with weak passwords. But it remains unclear if anything of value was taken.

By Michael Kan
Hacker Enters Information Security Hallway With Locks

Microsoft's $7.5 Billion GitHub Acquisition Has Officially Closed

GitHub will continue to operate independently under new CEO Nat Friedman, but integrations with Microsoft's Azure cloud and developer services are on the horizon.

By Rob Marvin
Microsoft GitHub

Cursor in the PCMag Startup Spotlight

As companies create more data, making sense of it is becoming harder. Collaborative data analytics platform Cursor aims to solve this problem by removing the user communication gap.

By Rob Watts
Cursor in the PCMag Startup Spotlight

Microsoft to Acquire GitHub for $7.5B

The web-based project hosting service attracts millions of developers and open source projects.

By Matthew Humphries
GitHub Microsoft Satya Nadella

Protect Your Organization From Declining Cloud Security

A new study from Redlock shows that some types of serious threats have more than tripled over the last year, mainly due to avoidable mistakes. Here's how to protect yourself.

By Wayne Rash
Cloud Security on Mobile

Comet.ml Wants to Change How We Interact With Machine Learning

Comet.ml is an ambitious project that wants to be the authority on sharing, tracking, and optimizing machine learning (ML) models. It's part of growing trend of fast, convenient ways to use ML technology.

By Rob Watts
Artificial Intelligence Hand of Cyborg God