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• Github plans to replace racially insensitive terms like ‘master’ and ‘whitelist’

  Github CEO Nat Friedman said over the weekend that the company is working to replace 'master' with a neutral term like 'main' to remove references to slavery. The company currently uses 'master' to denote the main branch of a repository. The code management platform is not the ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• GitHub bolsters code security with advanced scanning and private instances

  GitHub today announced that it's bolstering its security solutions by offering GitHub Advanced Security and Private Instances features. Along with this the company also unveiled Codespaces -- cloud-based development environment -- and Discussions feature. Last year, GitHub acquired ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• GitHub Codespaces lets you code in your browser without any setup

  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 cloud. Earlier, to contribute to a project you would need to make a pull request, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• GitHub is now free for all developer teams

  Popular software hosting and collaboration platform GitHub has made some of its core premium features free for everyone. The Microsoft-owned company said yesterday that an organization can now make private repositories for development without paying any fees. Up until now, if a ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• GitHub's new mobile app lets you manage your code from anywhere

  Popular developer collaboration platform GitHub has launched a mobile app to let coders manage their project remotely. The app lets you manage to merge and pull requests, and manage tasks from anywhere. Last year, the Microsoft-owned company launched the app's beta version at its ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• GitHub COO on launching in India and collaborating with governments to support the dev community

  GitHub launched its subsidiary in India last week to support a thriving developer community in the country. As part of the announcement, the Microsoft-owned company will have offices in Hyderabad and Bengaluru, and will establish teams across engineering, community, sales, and marketing ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• GitHub launches an Indian subsidiary to boost its developer community

  GitHub announced today that it's opening a subsidiary in India called GitHub India Private Limited. The company said the country has a third-largest number if active developer community on GitHub following the US and China. Over the coming months, the Mircosoft-owned company ll ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Mozilla, GitHub, and Cloudflare appeal to Indian government over its online content policing plans

  Mozilla, GitHub, and Cloudflare wrote a letter today to the Indian government to see the final draft of intermediary rules that will define how online platforms have to regulate content before it's presented in front of the Supreme Court on January 15. According to the draft released ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• GitHub launches Security Lab to spot vulnerabilities in open-source code

  GitHub brings together security researchers, maintainers, and companies to officially launch a new Security Lab with an aim ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• GitHub renews controversial $200,000 contract with ICE

  In a leaked memo, GitHub has revealed it will renew a $200,000 contract with ICE, despite disagreements with Trump's administration. ...

  • Mix

• GitHub acquires Semmle to help developers spot security vulnerabilities

  Software hosting service GitHub has acquired Semmle, a code analysis platform that helps developers discover security vulnerabilities ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Ubuntu maker's GitHub account hacked — but the source code is safe

  The GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, was hacked over the weekend ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan