Internet users in India are starting to lose to access websites including GitHub, Internet Archive, Pastebin, and Vimeo under an order from India's DoT (Department of Telecom). Update January 1, 2015 ...

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In a recent development, the Internet Archive (IA) has taken a proactive step to protect copyrighted materials by sending a DMCA notice to GitHub, urging the removal of a tool known as “DeGouRou,” ...

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source.

Microsoft on Monday announced that it will acquire popular software development platform GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal. GitHub was founded a decade ago as a platform for developers to share code. The ...

GitHub is a free website, using open source software, that allows developers to collaborate on code development while keeping track of versions and changes. Programmers across the globe rely upon it.

Chris DiBona was worried everything would end up in one place. This was a decade ago, before the idea of open source software flipped the tech world upside-down. The open source Linux operating system ...

The government of Germany is urging citizens to stop using Internet Explorer–at least until a security hole you could drive a Volkswagen through is fixed. But who goes back to IE once they’ve switched ...

Microsoft just announced that it has acquired GitHub, the coding platform that is popular among software developers, in a deal worth $7.5 billion. The acquisition of GitHub’s estimated 85 million code ...

China is remarkably successful at scrubbing its Internet of social dissent. Twitter and Facebook have been blocked ever since deadly ethnic riots in 2009. Chinese social media platforms employ armies ...