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October 2026

  1. GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack
  2. Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents
  3. How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills
  4. How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity
  5. How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code
  6. The next developer interface is ambient intelligence
  7. GitHub availability report: September 2026
  8. GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise
  9. GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase
  10. Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build
  11. How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate
  12. Secret protection must scale with software
  13. ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review
  14. AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen.
  15. 10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026

September 2026

  1. Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead
  2. How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent
  3. Highlights from Git 2.56
  4. GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases
  5. When chat is the wrong UI
  6. AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent
  7. Developers want more efficient software. Here’s what over 1,000 GitHub users told us they need.
  8. Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
  9. Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
  10. Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub
  11. GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser
  12. GitHub availability report: August 2026
  13. Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
  14. GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once
  15. Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!

August 2026

  1. OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
  2. GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage
  3. How to evaluate LLMs before production
  4. The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
  5. GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work
  6. How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient
  7. How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps
  8. Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched!
  9. What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era
  10. GitHub availability report: July 2026
  11. GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Write your first prompt
  12. Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?
  13. From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer
  14. A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app
  15. How we took malware advisories beyond npm
  16. How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows

July 2026

  1. Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
  2. Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions
  3. The harness is all you need (mostly)
  4. GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started
  5. The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before issuing version updates
  6. Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for?
  7. Next chapter: Restructuring GitHub’s bug bounty program
  8. How to build interactive experiences with canvases
  9. $100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community
  10. GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials
  11. How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
  12. GitHub availability report: June 2026
  13. How GitHub Copilot enables zero DNS configuration for GitHub Pages
  14. Q1 2026 Innovation Graph update: Open source collaboration is accelerating worldwide
  15. How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero
  16. 6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week

June 2026

  1. How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies
  2. Highlights from Git 2.55
  3. Inside the Advisory Database and what happens when vulnerability volume breaks records
  4. GitHub and UNDP team up to advance development priorities in Ghana with open source
  5. Transitioning as a Hubber
  6. Evaluating performance and efficiency of the GitHub Copilot agentic harness across models and tasks
  7. I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)
  8. GitHub joins coalition advocating for fixes to California AI Transparency Act to protect open source
  9. From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem
  10. How we built an internal data analytics agent
  11. How pull request limits are cutting down the noise
  12. Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing
  13. What are git worktrees, and why should I use them?
  14. GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands
  15. Accelerating researchers and developers building multilingual AI with a new open dataset
  16. How we made GitHub Copilot CLI more selective about delegation
  17. GitHub availability report: May 2026
  18. Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale
  19. Give GitHub Copilot CLI real code intelligence with language servers
  20. From one-off prompts to workflows: How to use custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI
  21. GitHub for Beginners: Answers to some common questions
  22. GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era
  23. GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience

May 2026

  1. Still a developer. Just outside. Our latest GitHub Shop collection is here.
  2. GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code
  3. GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents for the third year in a row
  4. Beyond the engine: 10 open source projects shaping how games actually get made
  5. Building GitHub’s next chapter in accessibility
  6. Investigation update: GitHub Enterprise Server signing key rotation
  7. Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere
  8. Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process
  9. Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program
  10. GitHub availability report: April 2026
  11. Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them)
  12. GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan
  13. Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI
  14. GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions
  15. Why age assurance laws matter for developers
  16. How researchers are using GitHub Innovation Graph data to reveal the “digital complexity” of nations
  17. Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows
  18. Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them.
  19. Validating agentic behavior when “correct” isn’t deterministic
  20. Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code
  21. Register now for OpenClaw: After Hours @ GitHub

April 2026

  1. GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Interactive v. non-interactive mode
  2. GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown
  3. Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability
  4. An update on GitHub availability
  5. GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
  6. Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans
  7. Highlights from Git 2.54
  8. Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI
  9. Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page
  10. Build a personal organization command center with GitHub Copilot CLI
  11. Developer policy update: Intermediary liability, copyright, and transparency
  12. Hack the AI agent: Build agentic AI security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game
  13. How exposed is your code? Find out in minutes—for free
  14. GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Pages
  15. GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Copilot CLI
  16. GitHub availability report: March 2026
  17. GitHub Universe is back: We want you to take the stage
  18. GitHub Copilot CLI combines model families for a second opinion
  19. Securing the open source supply chain across GitHub
  20. Run multiple agents at once with /fleet in Copilot CLI

March 2026

  1. GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub security
  2. What’s coming to our GitHub Actions 2026 security roadmap
  3. A year of open source vulnerability trends: CVEs, advisories, and malware
  4. Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
  5. Building AI-powered GitHub issue triage with the Copilot SDK
  6. GitHub expands application security coverage with AI‑powered detections
  7. Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era
  8. How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository
  9. Investing in the people shaping open source and securing the future together
  10. GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Actions
  11. GitHub availability report: February 2026
  12. Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
  13. The era of “AI as text” is over. Execution is the new interface.
  14. Under the hood: Security architecture of GitHub Agentic Workflows
  15. How to scan for vulnerabilities with GitHub Security Lab’s open source AI-powered framework
  16. 60 million Copilot code reviews and counting
  17. Scaling AI opportunity across the globe: Learnings from GitHub and Andela
  18. Join or host a GitHub Copilot Dev Days event near you
  19. GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Issues and Projects

February 2026

  1. From idea to pull request: A practical guide to building with GitHub Copilot CLI
  2. What’s new with GitHub Copilot coding agent
  3. Multi-agent workflows often fail. Here’s how to engineer ones that don’t.
  4. How AI is reshaping developer choice (and Octoverse data proves it)
  5. What to expect for open source in 2026

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