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March 16, 2020

GitHub buys JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount.

March 12, 2020

GitHub launches new tools for teachers, including autograding

GitHub announces two new features for GitHub Classroom, its set of tools for helping computer science teachers assign and evaluate coding exercises.

November 13, 2019

GitHub launches GitHub Actions to the general public.

GitHub Actions is a system for automating tasks like building, testing, and deploying software. The beta was launched in 2018 and it is now available to everyone.

October 4, 2019

GitHub announces that Rachel Potvin will join as its new vice president of data.

September 18, 2019

Microsoft's GitHub acquires a code analysis tool called Semmle.

June 4, 2018

Microsoft, fully embracing a model it once saw as a threat, said on Monday that it was buying GitHub, an open software platform used by 28 million programmers, for $7.5 billion.

In a blog post, Chris Wanstrath, the company's chief executive and a co-founder, who will become a technical fellow at Microsoft, wrote that when GitHub started up a decade ago, he could have "never imagined" the outcome announced on Monday.

July 2015

GitHub raises a $250,000,000 series B round from Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Sequoia Capital and Thrive Capital.

2015

GitHub raised a $250 million round in 2015, led by Sequoia Capital.

2015

GitHub was last valued at $2 billion back in 2015, and Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion in stock for the company in a deal that should close later this year.

2014

The $7.5 billion purchase, an all-stock deal, is the second-largest acquisition Microsoft has made since Mr. Nadella became chief executive in early 2014.

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I'm diabetic. I'd rather risk my shared health data being stolen than a double amputation

Dominic Nutt

October 13, 2021

go.theregister.com

You want my medical records? Good, take them - now find me a cure

Travis CI flaw exposed secrets of thousands of open source projects

Ax Sharma

September 14, 2021

Ars Technica

Developers furious at Travis CI's "insanely embarrassing 'security bulletin.'"

UK gives military's frikkin' laser cannon project a second roll of the dice

Gareth Corfield

September 14, 2021

go.theregister.com

First try had a habit of melting its mirrors, apparently

India's intermediary guidelines affect products like LinkedIn, GitHub: Microsoft's Brad Smith

Prasid Banerjee

September 9, 2021

mint

Smith said regulations formed in South Korea and Japan over the past week, which regulate how Google and Apple operate their App Stores, are perhaps the most significant tech regulations in 2021 so far

Why coders love the AI that could put them out of a job

By Padraig Belton

September 6, 2021

BBC News

Artificial intelligence is getting better at penning code but still a long way from working alone.