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• 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

• GitHub acquires Pull Panda and makes its code review tools available for free

  Exactly one year after buying GitHub for $7.5 billion, Microsoft has now purchased Pull Panda to beef up the software development ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• GitHub rolls out Patreon-esque feature to let you tip open source developers

  GitHub Sponsors, a Patreon-like funding model, is the means to financially support developers through recurring monthly payments. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Here's why I'm genuinely excited about GitHub's new package registry

  GitHub moves from hosting to distribution, and I'm really excited

  • Matthew Hughes

• The GitHub extortion victims are outsmarting their Bitcoin scammers

  Blackmailers wiping GitHub repositories and withholding code to extort Bitcoin from their victims haven't made enough to ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin extortionists are wiping GitHub repositories – unless you pay up

  Bitcoin extortionists hold GitHub respositories to ransom, Craig Wright ordered to prove Bitcoin ownership and more in this ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Inside GitHub’s fight to protect devs from EU’s disastrous Copyright Reform

  The EU will have a final vote on its controversial Copyright Reform and March 26. If it's passed, it could risk open source ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• GitHub launches ‘draft’ pull requests to let developers discuss code before deploying

  GitHub wants to make it easier to get feedback.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Report: GitHub hosts the most cryptocurrency mining malware of any site

  New research estimates cryptocurrency malware is responsible for mining $57M worth of Monero over the last 4 years - thats ...

  • David Canellis

• GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories

  Finally!

  • Matthew Hughes

• GitHub Desktop 1.5 makes it easy to resolve frustrating merge conflicts

  Merge conflict resolution just got a whole of a lot easier.

  • Matthew Hughes

• GitHub now hosts over 100 million repositories

  Today, the immensely popular social coding platform GitHub announced it now hosts over 100 million repositories. In addition, the platform announced new information about its userbase. GitHub now supports 31 million developers, who collectively have created over 1.1 billion contributions. These ...

  • Matthew Hughes