<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>devtake.dev — #ai-repos</title><description>Articles tagged ai-repos on devtake.dev.</description><link>https://devtake.dev/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Inside GitHub&apos;s fake star economy: 6 million bought stars and how to spot them</title><link>https://devtake.dev/article/github-fake-star-economy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://devtake.dev/article/github-fake-star-economy/</guid><description>A Carnegie Mellon study counted 6 million suspected fake stars across 18,617 GitHub repos. Here&apos;s what the StarScout research actually found and how to read a star count now.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>open-source</category><category>github</category><category>fake-stars</category><category>starscout</category><category>open-source</category><category>software-research</category><category>icse-2026</category><category>supply-chain</category><category>ai-repos</category><author>soren-vanek</author></item></channel></rss>