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GitHub

AI-powered developer platform

github.com

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded year: 2008
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 500–6,500

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Latest news about GitHub

In short: GitHub introduced the Copilot desktop app and agentic workflows, while addressing infrastructure reliability and several major security incidents.

Company announcements

Today GitHub

GitHub deprecates Python 3.9 support for Dependabot

Dependabot will no longer create pull requests for Python 3.9 dependencies, which has reached end-of-life.

June 18 GitHub

GitHub will deprecate Opus 4.6 (fast) on June 29, 2026

Users should switch to Opus 4.8 (fast) before that date.

June 18 GitHub

GitHub releases safer pull_request_target defaults for checkout

Actions/checkout v7 refuses common pwn request patterns by default, with backport planned.

June 17 GitHub

GitHub introduces pull request limits to reduce noise

The limits cap open PRs per user without write access, with bypass lists and future controls like archiving and issue limits.

Media coverage

June 19 Tech Times

GitHub Malicious Repositories: 10,000 Trojan Clones Evade Detection for Over a Year

GitHub malicious repositories numbering 10,000 have been distributing Trojan malware to developers for over a year, a researcher revealed today — and GitHub’s own anomaly-detection...

June 16 Techmeme

Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues...

June 15 Yahoo Tech

Microsoft Just Unveiled a New Coding Model — and the Real Question Is Whether It Can Stand Toe‑to‑Toe With Claude Code

The Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Build event was packed, and while it didn’t do many favors for the share...

June 12 The Register

Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

GitHub has been struggling with service availability in recent months as traffic on the platform has...

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