The Foundation that promotes the Zig programming language has quit GitHub due to what its leadership perceives as the code sharing site's decline.

Four years into its journey as a company, GitHub remained something of an independent. The startup, which helps companies and developers build software, rebuffed the repeated advances of venture ...

GitHub’s ‘Octocat’ mascot inside the company’s San Francisco headquarters. (Dave Fayram Photo, via Flickr, Creative Commons. Update, Monday morning: Microsoft confirmed the deal, announcing an ...

Open source has never been more pervasive, driving tectonic shifts in mobile, cloud computing, and big data. And yet, open source also remains an afterthought for the legions of coders that flock to ...

A surge in supply chain attacks has put open-source software risk, prompting GitHub to strengthen security across its npm ecosystem. The company, which operates the world’s largest code repository, is ...

At Open Source Summit Europe in France, GitHub COO Erica Brescia said: "99% of software projects are built on open source." With 96-million open-source projects from across the world living on the ...

Ever since Ada Lovelace, a polymath often considered the first computer programmer, proposed in 1843 using holes punched into cards to solve mathematical equations on a never-built mechanical computer ...

GitHub, the popular and well-funded version-control company, is entering the 3-D printing market. They aren't jumping into the world of hardware (not yet at least), but instead are automating tedious ...