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More than $100 million has now been invested in open source maintainers and projects through GitHub Sponsors. 🎉 Nearly 70,000 maintainers and organizations are supported by more than 280,000 sponsors, from individual developers to Fortune 500 companies. Thank you to everyone helping make open source more sustainable. 💚 Here’s the story of how we got here together. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eSfUBdD7

57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. The Apollo Guidance Computer software eventually grew to about 145,000 lines of code. 👀 Explore the original Apollo 11 guidance software for the Command and Lunar Modules. 🌕 https://lnkd.in/euYxaG2R Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Maintainers: You don’t need to be a security engineer to improve your project’s security. Enable these 6 free GitHub settings in under 30 minutes. 1. Add a SECURITY .md file Explain how to report vulnerabilities privately, what is in scope, and what information reporters should provide. 2. Enable private vulnerability reporting Give researchers a confidential place to submit reports so you can triage, fix, and disclose vulnerabilities on an appropriate timeline. 3. Turn on secret scanning with push protection Detect exposed credentials and help prevent API keys and tokens from entering your repository in the first place. 4. Enable Dependabot and dependency review Get alerts about vulnerable packages and review the security impact of dependency changes inside pull requests. 5. Turn on code scanning Use CodeQL to identify patterns associated with vulnerabilities, including injection flaws, unsafe deserialization, and insecure GitHub Actions workflows. 6. Protect your default branch Require pull requests and at least one approval before merging. This helps prevent risky direct pushes and ensures security checks have a chance to work. These settings won’t make your project unhackable. Nothing will. But they make automated attacks significantly harder for your project, its users, and everything that depends on it. https://lnkd.in/ec6DJQCJ

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What does it take for a government to adopt open source sustainably and at scale? As Ghana advances an ambitious digital reset, the GitHub Policy team partnered with the United Nations Development Programme to conduct an Open Source Programme Office Readiness Assessment (OSPORA). The findings reveal strong political commitment, experienced champions, and a fast-growing technology community, while also highlighting opportunities to strengthen policy, cross-ministry coordination, and internal capacity. Ghana’s experience shows how open source governance can advance digital sovereignty, local innovation, and sustainable public services. 🌍 https://lnkd.in/eDSDjgZr

Meet your control center for agentic development. The GitHub Copilot app is now generally available on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Watch how Git worktrees and agent merge help you run parallel workflows safely and efficiently. Download the Copilot app 👇 https://lnkd.in/eBeT6YwB

This Rubber Duck Thursday, Brad Groux (CEO of DigitalMeld, Microsoft maintainer on OpenClaw) joins us to dig into where a lot of the real AI opportunity actually is, outside the usual software circles. We’ll look at blue-collar businesses running on scheduling challenges, invoices, and follow-ups that still power most of the economy. Then we’ll break down what agent systems look like when they leave demos and enter real workflows, and why users don’t care about your stack if Thursday’s jobs never make it onto the calendar.