GitHub Compromised(twitter.com)

247 points by claaams 5 months ago | 89 comments

Claude 4 and GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories(twitter.com)

218 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 69 comments

Chris Wanstrath "defunkt" GitHub cofounder and former CEO is banned on GitHub(twitter.com)

35 points by bessarabov 2 years ago | 27 comments

A mass surveillance system for national security based on advertising/RTB data(twitter.com)

37 points by wchr 2 years ago | 15 comments

Wikidata, with 12B facts, can ground LLMs to improve their factuality(twitter.com)

195 points by raybb 2 years ago | 78 comments

A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub(twitter.com)

322 points by amarcheschi 1 year ago | 244 comments

An X post by Roger Sollenberger reporting that DOGE staffer Jordan Wick appears to be posting DOGE work, including a Twitter DM downloader and geospatial data, on his public GitHub.

GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks(successfulsoftware.net)

215 points by hermitcrab 1 month ago | 89 comments

A Successful Software blog post complaining that GitHub has not removed malicious software imitating the author's product three weeks after it was reported.

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)(michaelheap.com)

151 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 88 comments

A 2022 blog post by Michael Heap arguing that using the GitHub wiki for project documentation is an anti-pattern compared to a docs folder in the repo.

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension(bleepingcomputer.com)

985 points by Timofeibu 5 months ago | 430 comments

BleepingComputer news article reporting that GitHub confirmed a breach of about 3,800 internal repositories via a malicious VSCode extension.

An update on GitHub availability(github.blog)

394 points by salkahfi 6 months ago | 236 comments

A GitHub blog post explaining what the company has done and is still doing to improve the availability and reliability of its service.

I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets(github.com)

202 points by trvrprkr 9 days ago | 155 comments

A closed GitHub issue on the home-assistant.io repo in which a user complains that an integration scanning their secrets was enabled without authorization, calling it a privacy invasion.

We used an AI agent to fix an open-source bug. Someone asked to ban us(github.com)

9 points by maxcr 1 month ago | 2 comments

A GitHub pull request to the VisiData project submitted using an AI agent to fix a bug, which drew a request to ban the contributors.