Insider newsletter digest: How to use GitHub Copilot
Explore the July edition, featuring prompts, tips, and use cases for GitHub Copilot.
Securing our home labs: Home Assistant code review
The GitHub Security Lab examined the most popular open source software running on our home labs, with the aim of enhancing its security. Here's what we found and what you can do to better protect your own smart home.
For Good First Issue: Introducing a new way to contribute
For Good First Issue is a curated list of open source projects that are also digital public goods and need the help of developers.
Highlights from Git 2.43
The last Git release of 2023 is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.43.
Security best practices for authors of GitHub Actions
Improve your GitHub Action’s security posture by securing your source repository, protecting your maintainers, and making it easy to report security incidents.
Universe's key takeaway: Innovate better with AI-powered workflows on a single, unified platform
Discover new AI-powered features and tools to help developers stay in the flow and organizations innovate at scale.
Latest posts
GitHub Availability Report: October 2023
In October, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2023 recipients 🎉
The GitHub Awards recognizes and celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community, honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for their impactful work, innovation, thought leadership, and creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform
GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.
Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023
In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how open source activity around AI, the cloud, and Git are changing the developer experience.
Engineering
GitHub Availability Report: October 2023
In October, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
The architecture of today's LLM applications
Here’s everything you need to know to build your first LLM app and problem spaces you can start exploring today.
Demystifying LLMs: How they can do things they weren't trained to do
Explore how LLMs generate text, why they sometimes hallucinate information, and the ethical implications surrounding their incredible capabilities.
Measuring Git performance with OpenTelemetry
Use our new open source Trace2 receiver component and OpenTelemetry to capture and visualize telemetry from your Git commands.
Community
For Good First Issue: Introducing a new way to contribute
For Good First Issue is a curated list of open source projects that are also digital public goods and need the help of developers.
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2023 recipients 🎉
The GitHub Awards recognizes and celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community, honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for their impactful work, innovation, thought leadership, and creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
Leveraging AI to empower all developers at GitHub Universe 2023
GitHub Universe 2023 is just around the corner! Join us and learn how GitHub is leveraging AI to empower all developers, including developers with disabilities.
Celebrating the first round of GitHub Accelerator and what's next
Celebrate the maintainers of the first GitHub Accelerator cohort, learn what they have been up to since, and hear what’s next for GitHub Accelerator.
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Securing our home labs: Home Assistant code review
The GitHub Security Lab examined the most popular open source software running on our home labs, with the aim of enhancing its security. Here's what we found and what you can do to better protect your own smart home.
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The architecture of today's LLM applications
Here’s everything you need to know to build your first LLM app and problem spaces you can start exploring today.
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Insider newsletter digest: How to use GitHub Copilot
Explore the July edition, featuring prompts, tips, and use cases for GitHub Copilot.
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GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience
GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions on docs, and adopt OpenAI’s GPT-4 for a more personalized developer experience.
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Raising the bar for software security: GitHub 2FA begins March 13
On March 13, we will officially begin rolling out our initiative to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Read on to learn about what the process entails and how you can help secure the software supply chain with 2FA.
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Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023
In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how open source activity around AI, the cloud, and Git are changing the developer experience.
Product
Insider newsletter digest: How to use GitHub Copilot
Explore the July edition, featuring prompts, tips, and use cases for GitHub Copilot.
The architecture of today's LLM applications
Here’s everything you need to know to build your first LLM app and problem spaces you can start exploring today.
Demystifying LLMs: How they can do things they weren't trained to do
Explore how LLMs generate text, why they sometimes hallucinate information, and the ethical implications surrounding their incredible capabilities.
Research: Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on code quality
Findings show that code quality is better across the board and developers felt more confident, too.
Introducing the new, Apple silicon powered M1 macOS larger runner for GitHub Actions
Speed up your GitHub Actions jobs on macOS with all new, faster Apple silicon powered M1 macOS larger runner for arm64.
GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for all individuals
All GitHub Copilot for Individuals users now have access to GitHub Copilot Chat beta, bringing natural language-powered coding to every developer in all languages.
Security
Securing our home labs: Home Assistant code review
The GitHub Security Lab examined the most popular open source software running on our home labs, with the aim of enhancing its security. Here's what we found and what you can do to better protect your own smart home.
Security best practices for authors of GitHub Actions
Improve your GitHub Action’s security posture by securing your source repository, protecting your maintainers, and making it easy to report security incidents.