Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and services.

With GitHub, code changes are made within branches, and when the developer is ready, they can merge it with the main branch. In order to download files from a particular branch, you will need to ...

GitHub says that when other users would download any of the 26 projects, the malware would behave like a self-spreading virus and infect their local computers.

Cybersecurity researchers found risks in the GitHub Actions platform that could enable attackers to inject malicious code into software projects and initiate a supply chain attack.

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 Actions will allow GitHub users — which these days is pretty much anyone writing code — to automate the process of moving code between the different steps in their software workflows.

GitHub’s open-source Spec Kit formalizes spec-driven development for AI coding agents by providing a CLI, templates, and prompts that move work through specification, plan, tasks, and implementation, ...