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Policymakers around the world are advancing age assurance proposals to protect children and teens online. Some approaches restrict minors’ access to certain services or content, while others would require devices, operating systems, or app stores to collect age information and pass age signals to apps and websites. These proposals are driven by serious concerns, but without appropriate scoping…

One of our goals for the GitHub Innovation Graph was to facilitate research on the economic impact of open source software and developer collaboration. In a paper recently published by Research Policy , four researchers used Innovation Graph data to do just that. I’m happy to share an interview with these researchers, along with our Q4 2025 data release. The Research Policy paper examines…

You’ve probably already approved one without realizing it. The tests passed. The code was clean. You merged it. But it was agent-generated—and that ease of approval is exactly the problem. A January 2026 study, “More Code, Less Reuse” , found that agent-generated code introduces more redundancy and more technical debt per change than human-written code. The surface looks clean. The debt is…

At a Maintainer Unconference in Brussels this year, a breakout session had maintainers jotting down thoughts on the future of open source. One sticky note stood out: Mentoring new contributors, building trust across a community, making the judgement calls that shape a project’s direction: that’s the work that turns a repository into a living collaboration. And with the speed of AI, the people…

OpenClaw , one of the fastest-growing open source projects, has already picked up over 350,000 stars and an early community of builders exploring what agentic systems can actually do in practice. That’s why, on June 3, 2026, we are hosting OpenClaw: After Hours at GitHub HQ in San Francisco. The event will take place during Microsoft Build 2026 . This evening is a chance to bring the OpenClaw…

Welcome to GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners! In this series (available in video and blog format), we’ll give you everything you need to get started using GitHub Copilot CLI , from your first prompt to tips for navigating the command line like a pro! In this blog, we’ll cover the two main modes of the CLI: interactive and non-interactive. You’ll learn the differences between the two modes…

Welcome back to GitHub for Beginners. We’ve covered a wide range of topics so far this season, including GitHub Issues and Projects , GitHub Actions , security, and GitHub Pages. Now we’re going to teach you everything you need to know to get started with Markdown, the markup language used across GitHub. Once you learn the basics of how to use Markdown, you’ll develop an essential skill that…

On March 4, 2026, we received a vulnerability report through our Bug Bounty program from researchers at Wiz describing a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting github.com, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency, GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Enterprise Managed Users, and GitHub Enterprise Server. In less than two hours we had validated the finding…