A WIRED investigation has found more than a dozen GitHub projects linked to deepfake “porn” videos evading detection, extending access to code used for intimate image abuse and highlighting ...

(Image credit: Check Point Research) “The immediate place to investigate such packages is GitHub,” the researchers explain. “Researchers searched for code projects using these packages ...

Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and services.

GitHub has added a new "stars" feature that makes it easier to keep track of cool projects without the barrage of updates you'd normally get when you "watch" a repository.