Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86(tomshardware.com)

95 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 68 comments

Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit(tomshardware.com)

188 points by cookiengineer 5 months ago | 101 comments

US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS(tomshardware.com)

313 points by mywacaday 27 days ago | 282 comments

Tom's Hardware news article on the Netherlands developing a NixOS-based software ecosystem to replace Microsoft after US sanctions on the ICC, with a first release expected end of 2027.

Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours(tomshardware.com)

119 points by Ozarkian 1 year ago | 34 comments

Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes(tomshardware.com)

10 points by pseudolus 6 months ago | 6 comments

AMD Counter-Strikes itself, pulls driver after anti-lag feature causes CS2 bans(tomshardware.com)

164 points by WithinReason 3 years ago | 120 comments

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.

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories(twitter.com)

527 points by splenditer 5 months ago | 289 comments

A post on X from GitHub stating it is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories, with no current evidence of impact to customer data.

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation(theverge.com)

1366 points by Handy-Man 1 year ago | 1033 comments

The Verge news article reporting that GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke resigned and GitHub will be folded into Microsoft's CoreAI engineering team.

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.

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 appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability(theregister.com)

423 points by richtr 7 months ago | 221 comments

The Register article on GitHub's recent string of outages and slowdowns affecting Actions, pull requests, notifications and Copilot, falling short of three nines.