Sorry, Microsoft’s GitHub On A CD Isn’t A Thing
If you hadn't heard, GitHub made an offer that may or may not have been real at one point, but definitely isn't anymore. The original claim was that for the first 1000…
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TeamPCP Is Ruining Open Source Code At An Alarming Rate
A large amount of the recent GitHub repo poisonings, Mercor breaches and even OpenAI employees are being carried out by a group known as TeamPCP. The hackers are purely motivated by money,…
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Microsoft Copilot Was Injecting Ads Into GitHub Pulls Requests And Merges
There were more than a few developers flabbergasted to find out Copilot had injected advertisements into the descriptions of GitHub pull requests they made recently. Microsoft was injecting ads for...
Read MorePodcast #833 -RX 9060 Non-XT Benchmarks, Goodbye to X3D on AM4, Arm News, Bioshock 4, GitHub & Microsoft + More!
Join us as we turn a slow news week into the podcast event of the decade. Hackable smartphones, AOL dialup, Android tablets w/o Google, Microsoft more fully embraces GitHub, GPU sales on…
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One Single GitHub User Was Responsible For Over A Hundred Backdoored Malware Repos
Thanks to the curiosity of a Sophos customer about a specific remote access trojan they read about in the news, 100+ poisoned GitHub repos were not just taken down, but tracked back…
Read MorePodcast #814 – Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review, GPU Supply and Demand Problem, Radeon RX 9060 Rumors, and there is no fire
Welcome to another episode of the 30th best computer podcast on the planet! (you'll see)We've got the CPU review, GPU rumors and facts, and enough malware stories to choke Microsoft, TP-Link…
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One Million Devices Infected By Bad GitHub Repositories, But Microsoft Says It’s Totally Not Their Fault
There were over a million devices infected with malware after being directed to bad GitHub repositories by clicking in video links leading to those repositories. Microsoft contends they are totally innocent because…
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GitHub Is Having A Bad Day
It's a bad day for developers and lovers of GitHub as there is currently a major outage effecting just about every part of the site. Just about every service is...
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Microsoft Copilot Programming Aide Leaking Secrets And Ignoring Licenses?
Microsoft Copilot is a very interesting tool, with a bit of a larcenous streak. It is a programming aide that can turn natural language into working code, mostly intended for Visual Basic…
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Boycott 7-Zip Because It’s Not On Github; Seriously?
There is a campaign on Reddit that is gaining some traction calling for a boycott of the software because it is not a true Scotsman truly Open Source. The objection raised is…
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Windows Media Center, the second coming?
Charlie Owen, who was on the original Windows Media Center team has posted the entirety of the WMC SDK to GitHub for any and all to work on. This means that for…
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Q2VKPT Makes Quake 2 the First Entirely Raytraced Game
Wait - the first fully raytraced game was released in 1997? Not exactly, but Q2VKPT is. That name is not a typo (it stands for Quake 2 Vulkan Path Tracing) it's actually…
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Git outta here! Microsoft just bought the largest open source repository hosting service?
It is true, barring any legal challenges to the purchase, Microsoft will soon own GitHub, everyone's favourite source for open source software projects. This might not come as a complete surprise to…
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Rumor: Microsoft May Be Acquiring GitHub
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft has decided to acquire GitHub for an unknown amount. Some people are reporting that the deal was worth $2 billion USD, although they might have...
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