Tag: github
GitHub Copilot Gets Its Own App — and Agents Are the Reason Why
GitHub debuts the Copilot app at Microsoft Build 2026 — an agent-native desktop experience for managing parallel AI agents, canvases, sandboxes, and code review ...
GitHub Breach Tied to Malicious VS Code Extension Exposes Thousands of Internal Repositories
GitHub says attackers accessed thousands of internal repositories after a company employee’s device was compromised through a malicious Visual Studio Code extension, though the company said it has removed the malicious extension, ...
GitHub Faces Scaling Issues as AI Development Surges
It appears that GitHub has its hands full adjusting to the demands of scaling AI workloads. First, the company paused sign-ups for its Copilot subscription tiers in response to a wave of ...
GitHub Resets Copilot Pricing as AI Compute Costs Surge
The development community saw this one coming: GitHub will transition its Copilot service to a usage-based billing model on June 1, replacing its existing system of fixed subscriptions supplemented by premium request ...
GitHub Halts Copilot Growth as AI Coding Costs Outpace Subscriptions
GitHub has suspended new sign-ups for several of its Copilot subscription tiers, a decision that follows a surge in demand driven by agentic coding workflows, which consume far more compute resources than ...
GitHub Introduces Stacked PRs to Ease Review Bottlenecks
GitHub’s new Stacked Pull Requests feature restructures how developers submit and review changes by allowing large code updates to be broken into smaller, interdependent units. With Stacked PRs, each unit can be ...
GitHub to Leverage User Code for AI Model Training, Allows Opt-Out
GitHub is preparing a significant change to how it trains the AI models behind its Copilot coding assistant. Beginning April 24, the Microsoft-owned platform will collect user interaction data by default to ...
GitHub Tests AI Agents to Handle Repository Upkeep
GitHub is introducing a new approach to streamline developer workflow, offering AI agents that can shoulder the repetitive tasks that accumulate inside code repositories. Known as Agentic Workflows, the feature is available ...
Open Source’s ‘Eternal September’, GitHub Keeps Maintainers Covered for All Seasons
Adrian Bridgwater | | bug triage, collaboration tools, community engagement, contributing to open source, Eternal September, friction factor, generative AI, github, issues pinning, maintainer sustainability, new tools, open source contributions, pull requests, software development community, user engagementOpen source is experiencing an "Eternal September" due to a massive influx of contributions fueled by AI. While this increases engagement, it overwhelms maintainers. GitHub is introducing tools like interaction limits and ...
Qodo Adds Multiple AI Agents to Code Review Platform
Mike Vizard | | AI code review, ai copilot, AI-assisted testing, AI-generated code, automated code review, Bitbucket, code review, code review benchmark, defect detection, devops, F1 score, github, gitlab, LLM, memory-enabled agents, multi-agent AI, pull requests, Qodo, software qualityQodo 2.0 adds memory-enabled, task-specific AI agents to its LLM-based code-review platform, improving defect recall and F1 performance to help DevOps scale code quality as AI-generated code rises ...
‘PackageGate’ Vulnerabilities Can Let Attackers Bypass Shai-Hulud Defenses
Jeff Burt | | Aikido Security, Bun, Git dependency, github, Koi Security, microsoft, npm registry, PhantomRaven, PNPM, remote code execution, Shai-Hulud worm, supply chain attack, VLTIn the wake of the massive Shai-Hulud supply chain attack that ripped through npm late last year and compromised more than 700 packages and exposed 25,000 repositories, developers in the JavaScript world ...
N. Korea Contagious Interview Campaign Turns to VS Code to Deliver Backdoor
Jeff Burt | | backdoors, Contagious Interview, Git repositories, github, information stealing, Jamf, North Korea, remote code executionJamf security researchers said state-sponsored espionage actors are using malicious VS Code projects to steal information ...
