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• GitHub offers to rehire employee it fired for calling insurrectionists 'Nazis'

  GitHub has apologized to a Jewish employee it reportedly fired for warning coworkers about Nazis at the US Capitol riots ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Hundreds sign letter demanding answers after GitHub fires Jewish employee for calling insurrectionists Nazis

  GitHub allegedly fired a Jewish employee for saying “there are Nazis about” in reaction to the insurrectionist occupation ...

  • Tristan Greene

• GitHub restores popular YouTube downloader three weeks after its takedown

  Finally some good news in this hellish year. GitHub has restored popular video downloader tool, YouTube-dl, after the company banned it in October. The code hosting platform said that new information about the tool indicated that it didn't violate technical protection measures put ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies

  Last week, GitHub took down the popular YouTube video downloader tool "YouTube-dl" after the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA), the organization that represents record labels, issued a DCMA takedown notice. As a result, the code hosting site took down multiple ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• GitHub improves mobile code review with file switcher and multiple comments

  In March, GitHub launched its mobile app that make it possible for developers to view and review their project's code on the go. Now, it's bringing multiple enhancements such as the file switcher button and the ability to comment on multiple lines of code to the app that makes the ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• GitHub buried a data archive at the North Pole in case post-apocalyptic society needs help

  GitHub recently archived some 21TB of data in long-term storage in hopes that an advanced future society will one day use ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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