How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills 🔗
As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favorite bug classes, an [...]
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The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure 🔗
We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets [...]
How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity 🔗
Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results. The pos [...]
How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code 🔗
Learn how to move an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code without losing the conversation, code changes, or working context. The pos [...]
The next developer interface is ambient intelligence 🔗
AI, agents, voice, and physical controls are shifting software development from operating tools to expressing intent—and helping developers stay focus [...]
Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org 🔗
Put native GitHub features to work to review outside collaborator access and archive stale repositories. The post Staying Evergreen: How we automated [...]
GitHub availability report: September 2026 🔗
In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: Septem [...]
From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers 🔗
Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineer [...]
GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise 🔗
GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86 [...]
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase 🔗
Learn how to add custom instructions and skills to your repository, use custom agents, and connect MCP servers like Playwright. The post GitHub Copilo [...]