With a new version of its product in the offing and $4 million in Series A funding in its pocket, GitLab — creator of an open source alternative to code-hosting nexus GitHub — is setting out to expand ...

The open source funding problem is very real, but a slew of initiatives have emerged of late, with startups, corporations, and venture capitalists launching various programs to support some of the ...

GitHub has introduced an automated alert mechanism to enable developers to address vulnerabilities in the open source components their code uses. According to GitHub, the new feature, called ...

GitHub has reinstated today the youtube-dl open-source project, a Python library that lets users download the source audio and video files behind YouTube videos. GitHub, a code-hosting repository, had ...

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Why it matters: What if companies and independent software developers could spot security flaws in their programs before releasing them to the public? GitHub now has a tool that can help them do just ...

GitHub, owned by money-bags Microsoft, has called upon the European Union to create a publicly funded "Sovereign Tech Fund" (EU-STF) to boost the open source software ecosystem.… "Open source software ...

Normally, when you upload a project to GitHub you're free to make revisions to that code at any time. In many cases, that makes sense—something that is under active development will usually need to be ...

GitHub has put the final touches on its Arctic Code Vault with a nearly 1.5 tonne steel box covered in AI-generated etchings that aim to entice future generations to explore it. GitHub initially ...

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 after ...