Bleeping Computer

Major GitHub outage affects pull requests and other services

GitHub is mitigating an ongoing incident causing problems with multiple services, including performing pull requests, creating or viewing issues, and even viewing repositories and commits. "We are ...
InfoWorld

GitHub Actions hardens checkout security to block ‘pwn request’ attacks

After years of trying to educate developers to use pull_request_target securely, the platform finally implements stronger ...
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Copilot is now injecting ads into GitHub pull requests. It's a disaster.

Microsoft may have committed to reducing microslop in Windows 11, but the tech giant seemingly forgot to CC GitHub about the initiative. A software developer named Zach Manson shared that Copilot ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub outage impacts Actions, Codespaces, Issues, Pull Requests

GitHub was down today, affected by a worldwide outage preventing access to the website, issuing commits, cloning projects, or performing pull requests. The outage ...
InfoWorld

GitHub eyes restrictions on pull requests to rein in AI-based code deluge on maintainers

GitHub is weighing tighter pull request controls and AI-based filters after maintainers warned that a surge of low-quality, AI-generated submissions is overwhelming open-source projects. GitHub helped ...
The Verge

GitHub had a major outage, but now says its services are ‘fully operational’

The issues apparently popped up because of a ‘database infrastructure related change’ that GitHub rolled back. The issues apparently popped up because of a ‘database infrastructure related change’ ...
Visual Studio Magazine

New GitHub Switch Limits Repo Issue Creation to Collaborators Only

After publicly touting pull request limits as a way to cut maintainer noise, GitHub is taking the same idea further with a new setting that lets repository admins restrict issue creation to ...
InfoQ

GitHub Targets Large Merge Problem with Stacked PRs

GitHub has launched a native stacked pull request workflow through a new CLI extension called gh-stack, closing a gap that third-party tools have filled for several years. It aims to resolve the ...
Android Police

What is GitHub: Everything a beginner developer needs to know

Charnita is a wife, pet mom, tech enthusiast, and part-time freelance writer with over 14 years of experience. She's done countless app roundups, product reviews, and tutorials! In her free time, she ...
CSOonline

GitHub Actions attack renders even security-aware orgs vulnerable

Many open-source repositories contain privileged GitHub Actions workflows that execute untrusted code and can be triggered by attackers to expose credentials and access tokens, as MITRE and Splunk ...
Neowin

Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub

Over the years, generative AI has exploded in usage, but the party is coming to an end. For a while, the industry operated in some sort of "subsidy window" where giant AI labs and venture capitalists ...