The Github Archive Program aims to preserve historically relevant pieces of open source software to allow future software developers to see how the community built and reviewed code. Historians and ...

GitHub Inc. said today it has delivered a copy of all of the open-source software code stored on its website to a data repository at the Arctic World Archive, which is a very long-term archival ...

GitHub Inc., an open-source code repository and subsidiary of Microsoft Corp., today announced an expansion of the GitHub Archive Program by which the company sought to preserve open-source software ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub has finally moved its snapshot of all active public repositories on the site to a vault in Norway. GiHub announced the archiving plan last November and on February 20 followed ...

In a nutshell: On February 2, GitHub grabbed a snapshot of all the public repositories live on the site at the time. They moved the data onto archival films and shipped them off into the deep arctic ...

Dear people of the future: we’re sorry for whatever horrible thing we did that caused the apocalypse (was it nukes? climate change? killer robots? idiots who wouldn’t wear masks during a pandemic?).

The GitHub Archive is a large source of interesting data on software development activity and the developers behind it all. Lots of people (including myself) have mined it to learn all sorts of things ...

Eli covered the latest in the ever-changing worlds of telecom, streaming and sports. He previously worked as a technology reporter at USA Today. With concerns about climate change, politics and the ...