Last year, Microsoft paid $7.5 billion to buy GitHub, the online home of thousands of open source software projects that power apps and sites ranging from Facebook to Walmart.com. The acquisition, ...

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What are the hottest projects on GitHub? With some help from the GitHub Archive, FastCoLabs tracked down the most starred, forked, and watched projects so far this year. GitHub hosts millions of ...

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GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits and pull requests, in an attempt to inject backdoors into these projects. Most recently, the GitHub repository of Exo Labs, an AI and machine ...

Microsoft confirms it temporarily removed GitHub repos after Miasma worm compromised 73 of its open-source projects to inject ...

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GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. Stars are similar ...