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

GitHub shared plans at a White House summit in January to up its game in the open-source software security space. It came after security vulnerabilities such as the Log4Shell flaw raised concerns.

GitHub laulnches the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund with an initial commitment of $1.25 million in capital from contributors.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

GitHub Load Balancer was originally created to handle Git's billions of daily connections GitHub will release as open source the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), its internally developed load balancer.