BlogFlockPolicymakers around the world are advancing age assurance proposals to protect children and teens online. Some approaches restrict minors’ access to certain services or content, while others would require devices, operating systems, or app stores to collect age information and pass age signals to apps and websites. These proposals are…
One of our goals for the GitHub Innovation Graph was to facilitate research on the economic impact of open source software and developer collaboration. In a paper recently published by Research Policy, four researchers used Innovation Graph data to do just that. I’m happy to share an interview with…
GitHub Agentic Workflows is like a team of street sweepers that clean up little messes in your repo. These teams significantly improve repo hygiene and quality, but as with all agentic work, cost is a growing concern for developers. And because CI jobs like agentic workflows are automatically scheduled and…
You’ve probably already approved one without realizing it. The tests passed. The code was clean. You merged it.
But it was agent-generated—and that ease of approval is exactly the problem.
A January 2026 study, “More Code, Less Reuse”, found that agent-generated code introduces more redundancy and more technical debt…
Modern software testing is built on a fragile assumption: correct behavior is repeatable. For deterministic code, that assumption mostly holds. But for autonomous agents like Github Copilot Coding Agent (aka Agent Mode), especially as we explore the frontiers of integrated “Computer Use,” that assumption breaks down almost immediately.
As agents…
At a Maintainer Unconference in Brussels this year, a breakout session had maintainers jotting down thoughts on the future of open source. One sticky note stood out:
As AI gets better at writing code, human work around code becomes more important and more invisible.
Mentoring new contributors, building trust across…
OpenClaw, one of the fastest-growing open source projects, has already picked up over 350,000 stars and an early community of builders exploring what agentic systems can actually do in practice.
That’s why, on June 3, 2026, we are hosting OpenClaw: After Hours at GitHub HQ in San Francisco. The…
Meta’s HSM-based Backup Key Vault provides the foundation for end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The system allows people to protect their backed-up message history with a recovery code, ensuring that the recovery code is stored in tamper-resistant hardware security modules (HSMs) and is…
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