Back when Minecraft was relatively new and was released on several new platforms, 4J Studios added a unique way to introduce players to the sandbox game. In the early days, Legacy Console Editions for ...

In September 2025, a RubyGems maintainer renamed RubyGems' GitHub Enterprise site to 'Ruby Central' without prior notice, added Marty Haught of Ruby Central, who had not previously been a RubyGems ...

A team including maintainers removed without notice from the RubyGems.org project has formed the Gem Cooperative and created a new gem server called gem.coop, compatible with RubyGems. Martin Emde, ...

Ruby Central, a non-profit organisation of the Ruby community, seized control of the GitHub repositories and some important gems of the RubyGems and Bundler package ecosystems without warning in ...

Below is a copy and paste of a PDF written by a maintainer named Ellen Dash about the RubyGems controversy, written by a Hacker News user. Ellen, who has been a member of the Ruby community since she ...

A decade-long RubyGems maintainer, Ellen Dash (also known as duckinator), has resigned from Ruby Central following what she described as a "hostile takeover" of the open source project. RubyGems is ...

Git isn’t hard to learn. Moreover, with a Git GUI such as Atlassian’s Sourcetree, and a SaaS code repository such as Bitbucket, mastery of the industry’s most powerful version control tools is within ...

A fresh set of 60 malicious packages has been uncovered targeting the RubyGems ecosystem by posing as seemingly innocuous automation tools for social media, blogging, or messaging services to steal ...

For two years now, a Korean threat actor has been publishing malicious open source software (OSS) packages designed to steal credentials from spam marketers. Are you tired of shady, throwaway online ...

Security researchers from Socket have found that a group of attackers has been exploiting the RubyGems code repository for over two years, turning seemingly helpful tools into password-stealing ...

A group of 60 harmful software packages was uncovered on the RubyGems platform, posing as legitimate automation tools for websites like Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Telegram. These tools, active ...