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    GitHub Trending Outage Exposes Suspected Star Manipulation●github.com/trending went HTTP 000 for me, so I rebuilt the digest on the Search API. The rebuild surfaced four 2 KB READMmastodonBusinessMarkets33 h ago

    A developer says GitHub's Trending page failed to load and rebuilt a similar digest using the GitHub Search API instead. The results raised red flags: four repositories containing only a 2 KB README, gaining 100 stars in four seconds, and all referencing the same PowerShell loader URL. Observers see this as evidence of automated star inflation and possible malware distribution gaming GitHub's trending algorithms.

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    A new open-source tool called Agent-Reach, published on GitHub by Panniantong, is drawing attention for giving AI agents direct access to major platforms including Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili and XiaoHongShu. Written in Python, it works as a single command-line interface that lets agents read and search across these services, with the developers promoting it as requiring no paid API fees. The project is trending in developer communities.

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