GitLab cuts 14% of staff as it scales its platform to serve AI workloads

The company is reducing its workforce as it exits 22 countries, reduces management layers, and invests in its infrastructure to scale its platform.

Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak
Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak

Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud keys and a vast trove of other agency secrets on a public GitHub account. The inquiry comes as CISA is still struggling to contain the breach and invalidate the leaked credentials.

GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories

The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach, but said there was no evidence of customer data theft.

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.

The size of a credit card: This fully functional computer even packs an e-ink screen

The open-source Muxcard packs a functional computer, E Ink display, NFC, and wireless connectivity into a body as thin and small as a credit card.

Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones

Leaked “DarkSword” exploits published to GitHub allow hackers and cybercriminals to target iPhone users running old versions of iOS with spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers.

Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?
Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?

In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf — who goes by the handle “Dort” — has coordinated a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), doxing and email flooding attacks against the researcher and this author, and more recently caused a SWAT team to be sent to the researcher’s home. This post examines what is knowable about Dort based on public information.

Former GitHub CEO raises record $60M dev tool seed round at $300M valuation

Thomas Dohmke’s new startup offers an AI system to allow developers to better manage all the code AI agents produce.

X open sources its algorithm while facing a transparency fine and Grok controversies

In a post to GitHub on Tuesday, the social media giant purported to share its secret sauce.