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Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.

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A CVSS 8.7 vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allows remote code execution. Read the threat brief and find vulnerable GHES instances from Wiz.

In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils that ships by default since 25.10. Most of them came out of an external audit commissioned ahead of the 26.04 LTS.
I read through the list and thought th…

For FastCGI's 30th birthday, let's look at how it avoids the security problems inherent in HTTP reverse proxying

Four SAP npm packages published on April 29, 2026 contain a two-stage credential-stealing payload targeting GitHub tokens, AWS keys, and CI/CD pipelines. The packages share SAP-affiliated maintainers, pointing to a publisher account compromise.

CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.

Old 86-DOS source code dates back to the time before Microsoft bought it.

We sometimes have to look for a value in a sorted array. The simplest algorithm consists in just going through the values one by one, until we encounter the value, or exhaust the array. We sometimes call this algorithm a linear search. In C++, you can get…

Learn how Linux containers are built from the ground up. Starting with the mount namespace and a root filesystem, see why PID, cgroup, UTS, and network namespaces naturally follow - and how this foundation makes concepts like bind mounts, volumes, and persistence…

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In this era of powerful tools to find software bugs, we now see tools find a lot of problems at a high speed. This causes problems for developers, as dealing with the growing list of issues is hard. It may take a longer time to address the problems than to…

C3 is the ergonomic, safe evolution of C. Familiar syntax, full ABI compatibility, optionals, slices, contracts and zero-cost abstractions.

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In his classic Programming Perl — affectionately known to a generation of technologists as "the Camel Book" — Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris:
If we’re going to talk about good software design…

What happened? In 1.110, we added a setting to add Copilot as coauthor in commit messages by appending Co-authored-by: Copilot copilot@github.com. The setting git.addAICoAuthor has three different ...

This is the story of how our Developer Productivity team extended and rolled out rubyfmt, our Rust-based zero-config, ultra-fast autoformatter across the world's largest Ruby codebase.

Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one - docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2