Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is working on subscriptions. The company first announced plans to develop a new revenue stream based on the subscription model when detailing its ...

Github, the collaborative platform for programmers, now has $100 million to finance its expansion into a full-fledged social network. Strikingly, this is the largest investment yet by venture firm ...

Researchers at Trustwave released a new open-source tool called Social Mapper, which uses facial recognition to track subjects across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other networks.

Bluesky, Twitter’s open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol. The system is dubbed the Authenticated Data Experiment (or ADX) and is available on ...

The patent was created by Brian Robertson and Warren Adams, co-founders of PlanetAll, which is often cited as the first social network. They sold it to Amazon in 1998, which held onto it for only ...

You may have heard that GitHub is a code sharing and publishing service, or that it's a social networking site for programmers. Both statements are true, but neither explain exactly why GitHub is ...

A secretive network of around 3,000 “ghost” accounts on GitHub has quietly been manipulating pages on the code-hosting website to promote malware and phishing links, according to new research ...

GitHub is a version-control system that also doubles as a kind of social network for geeks. It lets coders swap and discuss code over the web, but it's also gaining traction as a system for ...

GitHub, the online code-sharing and development platform, is introducing a new open source tool to make it easier to create that redundancy. OctoDNS is the system GitHub has been using for a few ...