GitHub Advanced Security will help automatically spot potential security problems in the world's biggest open source platform.

Other ways GitHub is helping protect open-source software is through automated security updates and token scanning. “Securing the world’s open source software is a daunting task.

Recent cybersecurity threats such as Log4Shell have sparked interest in public-private partnerships to secure open-source software.

Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHub's Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of code authors.

Microsoft-owned GitHub, the world's largest platform for open-source software, has found that 17% of all vulnerabilities in software were planted for malicious purposes.

GitHub, a software development platform, has published the results of 8,400 surveys conducted by its users, sharing data on security issues in open source projects, AI-related issues, and more ...

Another open source advocate has decried GitHub Copilot, even calling for organizations to leave the open source code repository platform that spawned the artificial intelligence-driven tool. GitHub ...

Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization that provides support and legal services for open source software projects, has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub ...

A large GitHub survey of open-source projects has found open-source software development is almost completely dominated by men, and that most programmers neglect to write documentation. While ...

Now, pretty much everyone hosts their open source projects on GitHub, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Microsoft---once the bete noire of open source software.