InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

Learn how to use GitHub Copilot to generate code, optimize code, fix bugs, and create unit tests, right from within your IDE ...
The Verge

GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code

GitHub and OpenAI have launched a technical preview of a new AI tool called Copilot, which lives inside the Visual Studio Code editor and autocompletes code snippets. Copilot does more than just ...
Macworld

How to use Git and GitHub on Mac

I’d like to use the Git and GitHub programming tools on my Mac. Are they easy to learn? Git, along with its popular web-based companion GitHub, sits alongside popular programming languages such as ...
ZDNet

GitHub to replace 'master' with 'main' starting next month

"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will be ...

Microsoft reshuffles teams to bolster GitHub as AI coding and agent wars heat up

GitHub, the dominant software development platforms, is responding to the rise of AI coding services and AI agents ...
ZDNet

GitHub suffers 'largest DDoS' attack in site's history

GitHub is suffering a DDoS attack deemed the largest in the website's history and believed to originate from China. The coding website is a popular repository for projects from game engines to ...
InfoWorld

TypeScript rises to the top on GitHub

TypeScript, Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, has become the most-used language on GitHub, according to GitHub’s Octoverse 2025 report released on October 28. August 2025 marked the first ...