ZDNet

Github tops 40 million developers as Python, data science, machine learning popularity surges

Github has grown to more than 40 million developers and its growth is getting a big boost from data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning repositories. In its annual Octoverse report, ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft Moves Its CNTK Machine Learning Toolkit To GitHub And MIT License

Microsoft today announced that it is making it easier for developers to use its Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) to build their own deep learning applications. The company first open sourced this ...
CIO

Microsoft opens up its deep-learning toolkit on GitHub

Microsoft took another step on its open-source sharing journey Monday by releasing on GitHub a toolkit it uses internally for deep learning. Dubbed CNTK — short for Computational Network Toolkit — the ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot

Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHub's Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of programmers.
CRN

8 Things Partners Need To Know About Microsoft's Acquisition Of GitHub

Microsoft's $7.5 billion deal to buy leading open source code repository GitHub will reverberate through the software giant's channel, creating new opportunities for partners to sell Azure Cloud ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Sentinel adds threat monitoring for GitHub repos

Microsoft Sentinel now comes with support for continuous GitHub threat monitoring, which helps keep track of potentially malicious events after ingesting GitHub enterprise repository logs. Microsoft ...
Computer Weekly

Microsoft joins up LinkedIn and GitHub to support pandemic job seekers

Microsoft has joined up its LinkedIn and GitHub acquisitions in a bid to provide a job seekers’ portal aimed at reskilling people who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. The ...