GitHub's user base has swelled under Microsoft's ownership, but the software repository has fallen behind newer rivals in the world of vibe coding.

When Microsoft paid $7.5 billion for GitHub in 2018, it secured a platform central to modern software development. Today, GitHub has grown to 180 million developers. By scale, it is bigger

GitHub is battling outages, security issues, and a talent exodus. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.

Megalodon pushed 5,718 malicious GitHub commits in 6 hours, exposing CI secrets and cloud credentials at scale.

Microsoft’s GitHub has suffered what appears to be its biggest ever security breach after confirming that attackers exfiltrated code from around 3,800 of the company’s internal repositories.

CISA is investigating after a contractor’s public GitHub repository exposed AWS GovCloud credentials, internal files, and passwords.

GitHub is investigating an alleged breach after TeamPCP claimed access to nearly 4,000 private repositories, though no impact on customer data has been confirmed.

GitHub CISO Alexis Wales confirmed Thursday that a poisoned build of the Nx Console Visual Studio Code extension — live on Microsoft’s official Visual Studio Marketplace for just 18 minutes on May 18 — gave threat group TeamPCP enough access to exfiltrate approximately 3,