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Game Bytes · March 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 news Wizard...
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Empowering women through open source
It’s not often we step outside of our careers and busy everyday lives and pause to say, “Hey, what is this all about? Am I fulfilled? Am I finding meaning in what I’m doing day to day?” As the Head of...
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Bringing enterprise-level security and even more power to GitHub-hosted runners
GitHub’s journey towards enhancing enterprise readiness for GitHub Actions takes a significant leap forward with the introduction of Azure private networking for GitHub-hosted runners on GitHub...
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Security research without ever leaving GitHub: From code scanning to CVE via...
Hello fellow readers! Have you ever wondered how the GitHub Security Lab performs security research? In this post, you’ll learn how we leverage GitHub products and features such as code scanning,...
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What is retrieval-augmented generation, and what does it do for generative AI?
One of the hottest topics in AI right now is RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation, which is a retrieval method used by some AI tools to improve the quality and relevance of their outputs....
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Explore the seasons of software development with four full years of data
With today’s Q4 2023 data release, the GitHub Innovation Graph now offers four full years of data on eight metrics–Git pushes, repositories, developers, organizations, programming languages, licenses,...
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4 ways GitHub engineers use GitHub Copilot
Just recently, I was coding a new feature for GitHub Copilot Chat. My task was to enable the chat to recognize a user’s project dependencies, allowing it to provide magical answers when the user poses...
View ArticleGitHub Availability Report: March 2024
In March, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. March 15 19:42 UTC (lasting 42 minutes) On March 15, GitHub experienced service degradation from...
View ArticleHelping policymakers weigh the benefits of open source AI
Policymakers are increasingly focusing on software components of AI systems, and how developers are making AI model weights available for downstream use. GitHub enables developer collaboration on...
View ArticleAll In Africa: New cohort now open!
Header image credit: Kingsley Mkpandiok Having equal opportunity to use and create technology is key to unlocking the potential of open source. At the heart of this is skilling—and that’s where...
View ArticleThe world’s fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024
Imagine arriving at a conference and immediately feeling inspired: your agenda is packed with must-see GitHub Copilot sessions, booths are filled with experts from top tech companies, and you’re...
View ArticleA policy proposal on our approach to deepfake tools and responsible AI
We are proposing an addition to our Acceptable Use Policies on Misinformation and Disinformation to address the development of synthetic and manipulated media tools for the creation of non-consensual...
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A short guide to mastering keyboard shortcuts on GitHub
This is abridged content from November 2023’s Insider newsletter. Like what you see? Sign up for the newsletter to receive complete, unabridged content in your inbox twice a month. Sign up now >...
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Using open source to help the earth
When I start something new, I love to jump right in and get my feet wet (though, preferably in the Great Barrier Reef). As the new Environmental Sustainability lead at GitHub, this meant within the...
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Securing millions of developers through 2FA
Though technology has advanced significantly to combat the proliferation of sophisticated security threats, the reality is that preventing the next cyberattack depends on getting the security basics...
View ArticleGitHub Actions, Arm64, and the future of automotive software development
Automotive software development moves to the cloud We are at an inflection point for automotive embedded development to move to the cloud. In an era where software has not just eaten the world but is...
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CodeQL zero to hero part 3: Security research with CodeQL
I’ve written a bit in the past about static analysis (CodeQL zero to hero part 1: Fundamentals of static analysis) and basics of writing CodeQL queries (CodeQL zero to hero part 2: Getting started...
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GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment
We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace–where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software in natural language. Sign up here. In the past two years, generative...
View ArticleHighlights from Git 2.45
The open source Git project just released Git 2.45 with features and bug fixes from over 96 contributors, 38 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git back when 2.44 was released....
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Where does your software (really) come from?
Software is a funny, profound thing: each piece of it is an invisible machine, seemingly made of magic words, designed to run on the ultimate, universal machine. It’s not alive, but it has a...
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