Game Bytes · January 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
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Explore the August 2023 edition, featuring easy tips and tricks for GitHub Mobile.
New data and visualizations highlight the resilience of international developer collaboration
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q3 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
GitHub Availability Report: December 2023
In December, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub-hosted runners: Double the power for open source
GitHub Actions continues its industry-leading support for the OSS community by doubling the Windows/Linux machine size to 4-vCPU runners at no cost for public repositories.
A developer’s second brain: Reducing complexity through partnership with AI
As we look to empower developers with AI tools, we inadvertently integrate AI deeper into the way developers work. How do developers feel about that? And what are the most impactful ways to introduce more AI into workflows? We recently conducted 25 in-depth interviews with developers to understand exactly that.
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Rotating credentials for GitHub.com and new GHES patches
GitHub received a bug bounty report of a vulnerability that allowed access to the environment variables of a production container. We have patched GitHub.com and rotated all affected credentials. If you have hardcoded or cached a public key owned by GitHub, read on to ensure your systems continue working with the new keys.
Empowering Uruguay’s future workforce with AI
During the second cycle of Git Commit Uruguay, students learned the basics of AI and built their own AI-powered projects.
Game Off 2023 results 🏆
The GitHub Game Off results are in! All games have been rated, ranked, and reviewed. Read on for a look at the 10 highest-rated submissions overall.
GitHub Certifications are generally available
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Engineering
GitHub Availability Report: December 2023
In December, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
A developer’s second brain: Reducing complexity through partnership with AI
As we look to empower developers with AI tools, we inadvertently integrate AI deeper into the way developers work. How do developers feel about that? And what are the most impactful ways to introduce more AI into workflows? We recently conducted 25 in-depth interviews with developers to understand exactly that.
How we organize and get things done with SERVICEOWNERS
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GitHub Availability Report: November 2023
In November, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Community
Game Off 2023 results 🏆
The GitHub Game Off results are in! All games have been rated, ranked, and reviewed. Read on for a look at the 10 highest-rated submissions overall.
Release Radar · End of 2023 Edition
Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people enjoyed turkey over Thanksgiving in the…
For Good First Issue: Introducing a new way to contribute
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Game Bytes · January 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
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A developer’s second brain: Reducing complexity through partnership with AI
As we look to empower developers with AI tools, we inadvertently integrate AI deeper into the way developers work. How do developers feel about that? And what are the most impactful ways to introduce more AI into workflows? We recently conducted 25 in-depth interviews with developers to understand exactly that.
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Raising the bar for software security: GitHub 2FA begins March 13
On March 13, we will officially begin rolling out our initiative to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Read on to learn about what the process entails and how you can help secure the software supply chain with 2FA.
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How to build a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions in four simple steps
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Game Bytes · January 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
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GitHub-hosted runners: Double the power for open source
GitHub Actions continues its industry-leading support for the OSS community by doubling the Windows/Linux machine size to 4-vCPU runners at no cost for public repositories.
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Insider newsletter digest: Build from anywhere
Explore the August 2023 edition, featuring easy tips and tricks for GitHub Mobile.
GitHub-hosted runners: Double the power for open source
GitHub Actions continues its industry-leading support for the OSS community by doubling the Windows/Linux machine size to 4-vCPU runners at no cost for public repositories.
GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals
All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural language-powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost.
Default setup now includes scheduled scans and supports all languages covered by CodeQL
We’ve added new improvements to default setup, including automatically scheduling scans on repositories and support for all CodeQL covered languages.
From macOS runners to secure deployments, what’s new from GitHub Actions
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The architecture of today's LLM applications
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Security
Securing our home labs: Frigate code review
This blog post describes two linked vulnerabilities found in Frigate, an AI-powered security camera manager, that could have enabled an attacker to silently gain remote code execution.
Cueing up a calculator: an introduction to exploit development on Linux
Using CVE-2023-43641 as an example, I’ll explain how to develop an exploit for a memory corruption vulnerability on Linux. The exploit has to bypass several mitigations to achieve code execution.
GitHub and the Ekoparty 2023 Capture the Flag
The GitHub Security Lab teamed up with Ekoparty once again to create some challenges for its yearly Capture the Flag competition!
Frenemies to friends: Developers and security tools
When socializing a new security tool, it IS possible to build a bottom-up security culture where engineering has a seat at the table. Let's explore some effective strategies witnessed by the GitHub technical sales team to make this shift successful.
5 ways to make your DevSecOps strategy developer-friendly
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Scaling vulnerability management across thousands of services and more than 150 million findings
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Rotating credentials for GitHub.com and new GHES patches
GitHub received a bug bounty report of a vulnerability that allowed access to the environment variables of a production container. We have patched GitHub.com and rotated all affected credentials. If you have hardcoded or cached a public key owned by GitHub, read on to ensure your systems continue working with the new keys.
Open Source
Game Bytes · January 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
Game Off 2023 results 🏆
The GitHub Game Off results are in! All games have been rated, ranked, and reviewed. Read on for a look at the 10 highest-rated submissions overall.
Release Radar · End of 2023 Edition
Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people enjoyed turkey over Thanksgiving in the…
For Good First Issue: Introducing a new way to contribute
For Good First Issue is a curated list of open source projects that are also digital public goods and need the help of developers.
Enterprise
GitHub Availability Report: December 2023
In December, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
From migration tools to updates to Enterprise Managed Users, what’s new in GitHub Enterprise
Read a round-up of the exciting, new innovation coming from GitHub Enterprise.
GitHub Availability Report: November 2023
In November, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Education
Empowering Uruguay’s future workforce with AI
During the second cycle of Git Commit Uruguay, students learned the basics of AI and built their own AI-powered projects.
GitHub Certifications are generally available
Unlock your full potential with GitHub Certifications! Earning a GitHub certification will give you the competitive advantage of showing up as a GitHub expert.
Calling all teachers! Learn how to build new commands on the GitHub Classroom CLI
In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll dive into how you can become the next open source contributor to the GitHub Classroom CLI, building commands that you can use to improve your workflow as an educator!
Policy
New data and visualizations highlight the resilience of international developer collaboration
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q3 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
GitHub Innovation Graph Q2 2023 Data Release
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q2 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
Introducing the GitHub transparency center
It’s time for our biannual transparency report, where we share how we approach content moderation and disclosure of user information. This year, we’re introducing the transparency center, a new platform for our transparency reporting data.
Company
GitHub’s top blog posts of 2023
As the year winds down, we're highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.
The ultimate gifts for the developer in your life this holiday season
If you're on the hunt for the perfect holiday gifts for the developer who has it all, look no further. We’ve curated a list of 10 must-have items (plus a few more) that strike the perfect balance between practicality and style.
Universe's key takeaway: Innovate better with AI-powered workflows on a single, unified platform
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