At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on ...

The novel malware strain is being dubbed Shai-Hulud — after the name for the giant sandworms in Frank Herbert’s Dune novel ...

Yearly report finds explosion of GenAI projects, new users from outside the coding community responsible for boost There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most ...

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks also has skyrocketed on the site. The rise of both underscore the surge in data science, ...

The Microsoft-owned Github this week announced that is has acquired npm, a company with a large registry of JavaScript packages. Nat Friedman, Github’s chief executive officer, who made the ...

GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. As GitHub CEO Nat Friedman ...

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GitHub announced Monday that it will acquire npm, a JavaScript package manager. Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headline GitHub will join Microsoft’s CoreAI division with ...

Open source development tool GitHub released its annual ranking of programming languages. JavaScript claimed the top spot, a position its held since 2014. Most languages remained stagnant, with ...