GitHub is mitigating an ongoing incident causing problems with multiple services, including performing pull requests, creating or viewing issues, and even viewing repositories and commits. "We are ...

The concept of a pull request is unique to GitHub — so don't feel nervous about not knowing what it is! "Pull requests" power the communities of developers who create and contribute to "open sourced" ...

GitHub has introduced the GitHub Copilot app, a desktop control centre for agent-native development that aims to keep ...

GitHub is weighing tighter pull request controls and AI-based filters after maintainers warned that a surge of low-quality, AI-generated submissions is overwhelming open-source projects. GitHub helped ...

Microsoft may have committed to reducing microslop in Windows 11, but the tech giant seemingly forgot to CC GitHub about the initiative. A software developer named Zach Manson shared that Copilot ...

Australian developer Zach Manson noted on Monday that, after a coworker asked Copilot to correct a typo in one of his pull requests, he was surprised to find a message from Copilot in the PR pushing ...

Many open-source repositories contain privileged GitHub Actions workflows that execute untrusted code and can be triggered by attackers to expose credentials and access tokens, as MITRE and Splunk ...

Last week, product manager Camilla Moraes opened a GitHub community discussion to address "a critical issue affecting the open source community: the increasing volume of low-quality contributions that ...