Microsoft's $7.5 billion GitHub deal will get EU approval
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Unconditional nod

Software King of the Wolrd Microsoft will get unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $7.5 billion purchase of privately held coding website GitHub.

Microsoft confirms it has bought GitHub
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Tuesday, 05 June 2018 10:19

Microsoft confirms it has bought GitHub


For 7.5 billion

As rumoured, Microsoft has confirmed that it has acquired code repository website GitHub for $7.5 in Volish stock.

Github hit by biggest recorded DDoS attack
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Managed to survive, sort of

Github was hit by the most powerful denial of service attack on record but managed to walk away from it.

Half of GitHub is duplicated code
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Friday, 24 November 2017 11:47

Half of GitHub is duplicated code


Researchers shocked

More than 70 percent of code stored in GitHub is duplicated, a study has found.

Open Source Github under Chinese attack
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Monday, 30 March 2015 10:34

Open Source Github under Chinese attack


Sauce fight

Open source coding site GitHub said it was fending off a days-long DoS attack that had caused intermittent outages for the social coding site.