Millions of users of GitHub, the premier online platform for sharing open-source software, rely on stars to establish their software product's credibility. But new research from Carnegie Mellon ...

With Google I/O 2026 opening Tuesday and agentic coding confirmed as a central theme, software engineers are auditing how they configure their AI coding tools. One repository has emerged as the ...

GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. Stars are similar ...

On GitHub, users can bookmark repositories by 'starring' them. The number of stars is seen as an indicator of a repository's popularity, and investors sometimes use this as a criterion for selecting ...

New research from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science shows that GitHub users increasingly buy or trade for fake stars, then use their ill-gotten gains to attract unsuspecting users so they ...