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GitHub announces former Cisco CISO as its first security chief
GitHub today announced Mike Hanley as its new chief security officer. Hanley joins from Cisco and represents the first time the software development platform company has had a security chief. Hanley was Cisco’s chief information security officer for less than a year after joining the IT and networking giant through

GitHub ditches cookies to protect developers’ privacy
The world’s best known software development platform GitHub will remove all non-essential cookies from its websites to improve developers’ experience and protect their privacy. Visitors to the website will not see a cookie banner on GitHub.com or its subdomains. The announcement made Friday comes just a week after French regulators

The Role of Open Source in Digital Transformation
Technology leaders in every organisation need to understand the value and disruptive potential of open source code, and encourage their developers to work across different projects, according to Sam Hunt, APAC VP of GitHub, Microsoft’s US$7.5 billion open source hosting company. Hunt told Which-50 open source software has become fundamental

Microsoft Preserves Critical Open Source Code In A Doomsday Arctic Bunker
In the Norwegian town of Svalbard there is a vault containing over 900,000 seeds of the world’s most valuable plants and crops. The vault, more than 100 metres within a mountain, opened in 2008 to preserve the seeds in any sort of large scale crisis or doomsday scenario. Next year,

GitHub Digs In On ICE Contract
GitHub has no plans to review its decision to continue providing products to controversial US government agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), despite a growing backlash from employees over the deal including employees leaving in protest. The open source management company says canceling or modifying the contract won’t “effect any

GitHub goes mobile, tackles open source security
GitHub announced it is releasing native mobile applications for iOS and Android, and unveiled a new approach to open source security during its annual developer event in San Francisco this week. From today a mobile version of GitHub is available through a public beta with android “coming soon”. The mobile

GitHub to release public guide for its office culture and practices
GitHub has begun formalising its office culture, processes, and layouts following its acquisition by tech giant Microsoft. The companies insist GitHub will remain a separate entity but GitHub says it wants to record and share some of what made it so appealing to Microsoft. The open source software management company

Open Source Has Won Says GitHub CEO, Amid ICE Controversy
Software developers aren’t introverts writing closely guarded code in a dark room. At least not anymore. The rise of open source has shown software development is fundamentally a collaborative, community endeavour where millions of developers share and build on each other’s work. That’s according to GitHub CEO Nat Friedman who

Telstra Ventures Invests In GitLab To Boost Innovation And Collaboration
Telstra Ventures has invested in GitLab and will leverage its application to support innovation and optimise collaborative workflows. GitLab lets companies develop new solutions and capabilities more quickly by providing an end-to-end DevOps solution in a single application, while also providing the flexibility to plug into many developer tools such