January 2025

4 steps to building a natural language search tool

Empowering humanitarian action with open source: A natural language search tool for UN Resolutions.

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Cybersecurity researchers: Digital detectives in a connected world

Discover the exciting world of cybersecurity research: what researchers do, essential skills, and actionable steps to begin your journey toward protecting the digital world.

Engineering

Considerations for making a tree view component accessible

A deep dive on the work that went into making the component that powers repository and pull request file trees.

AI & ML

Open source AI is already finding its way into production

Open source AI models are in widespread use, enabling developers around the world to build custom AI solutions and host them where they choose.

Open Source

New to open source? Here’s everything you need to get started

Explore our simple guide to finding projects, understanding guidelines, and making an impact.

News & insights

That’s a wrap: GitHub Innovation Graph in 2024

Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q2 & Q3 2024 data for the Innovation Graph.

Security

Attacks on Maven proxy repositories

Learn how specially crafted artifacts can be used to attack Maven repository managers. This post describes PoC exploits that can lead to pre-auth remote code execution and poisoning of the local artifacts in Sonatype Nexus and JFrog Artifactory.

AI & ML

Modernizing legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples

Learn how to modernize legacy code with GitHub Copilot with real-world examples.

News & insights

Seven years of open source: A more secure and diverse ecosystem

Explore insights into open source community growth, innovation, and inclusivity with an updated survey dataset.

AI & ML

How we evaluate AI models and LLMs for GitHub Copilot

We share some of the GitHub Copilot team’s experience evaluating AI models, with a focus on our offline evaluations—the tests we run before making any change to our production environment.

Developer skills

Supporting the next generation of developers

Here’s your opportunity to empower the teen in your life to get a start in open source development.

Company news

GitHub Availability Report: December 2024

In December, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

AI & ML

Documenting and explaining legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples

Learn how to document and explain legacy code with GitHub Copilot with real-world examples.

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Application development

How we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub

GitHub uses GitHub to build GitHub, and our CLI extensions are no exception. Read on to find out how we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub!

Git

Git security vulnerabilities announced

A new set of Git releases were published to address a variety of security vulnerabilities. All users are encouraged to upgrade. Take a look at GitHub’s view of the latest round of releases.