Tag: github
When AI Coding Agents Become Malware Delivery Systems
Samuel Ogbonna | | AI coding agents, AI security, devsecops, github, prompt injection, Software Supply ChainAI coding agents are becoming part of everyday development work. Developers use them to find libraries, configure projects, troubleshoot installation problems, and set up new tools. An agent can search GitHub, read ...
Harness Unfurls Source Code Repository Alternative to GitHub
Harness today launched a code repository service that is specifically designed for DevOps teams that are relying on artificial intelligence (AI) agents to generate code. Martin Reynolds, Field CTO for Harness, said ...
GitHub Sharpens CodeQL’s Eye on Actions Workflows and Modern JavaScript
GitHub Actions pipelines have become one of the quieter attack surfaces in software development. They pull in third-party actions, cache dependencies, and pass secrets between jobs, often without anyone reviewing the workflow ...
Cursor Launches Origin Code Hosting Platform as GitHub Rival
AI coding provider Cursor has launched Origin, a code hosting platform that puts source code and AI coding agents inside the Cursor development environment. The new coding platform expands the company into ...
Microsoft’s GitHub Hit by Major Outage as AI-Driven Demand Strains Infrastructure
Jon Swartz | | AI infrastructure, AI workflows, API, copilot, Downdetector, github, GitHub Actions, GitHub outages, GitHub Pages, Government, microsoft, Microsoft Teams, Rubrik, zero-trustGitHub, the Microsoft Corp.-owned code hosting platform serving more than 180 million developers, is still reeling from a widespread outage on Monday that severely disrupted software development pipelines globally. The hours-long incident ...
GitHub Hit by Widespread Outage, Halting Work for Global Developers
Jon Swartz | | AI coding, Anthropic, API, cloudbees, Cursor, Downdetector, error rates, github, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, GitHub outages, microsoft, Microsoft Teams, OpenAI, SAML, service monitoring forums, Social media, Team SyncA major technical outage struck GitHub on Monday morning, disrupting workflows for millions of developers worldwide for several hours as critical services, automated testing pipelines, and artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools suffered ...
FakeGit Targets AI Coding Agents with Malicious GitHub Repos
Jeff Burt | | AgentBaiting, AI coding agents, AI supply chain risk, Anthropic Claude Code, fake repositories, FakeGit, github, Google Gemini, Island, MCP Server, OpenAI ChatGPT, SmartLoader, StealCThreat actors continue to find new ways to incorporate AI into schemes aimed at luring developers into downloading malware from fake repositories. The latest example involves almost 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that ...
xAI Open-Sources Grok Build Coding Agent After Cloud Upload Exposes SSH Keys, Repos
Tom Smith | | AI agent governance, AI coding agent, Apache 2.0, credential exposure, developer privacy, devops security, github, Grok Build, open-source coding agent, Repository Security, source code security, xAIxAI has published the full source code for Grok Build, its terminal-based AI coding agent, on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license. The release lands three days after a security researcher showed ...
SmartBear Tightens Integration Between AI Coding and Testing Tools
SmartBear this week revealed it is narrowing the divide between coding and testing by integrating its platform with artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools. Sheryl Koenigsberg, senior vice president of product marketing at ...
GitHub’s Redesigned PR Inbox Tackles the Review Bottleneck AI Created
GitHub's redesigned pull requests dashboard is now GA, adding Inbox, saved views, and smarter filters as PR review queues grow ...
Former GitHub CEO Unveils Distributed Git Network Built for AI Coding Agents
As AI coding agents become a larger part of software development, a new startup founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is introducing infrastructure built to address the growing pressure on centralized ...
Akrites: The Latest Attempt to Protect Open-Source From AI Attacks Has Arrived
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | | ai, Akrites, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Chainguard, cisco, citi, devops, Endor Labs, Ericsson, github, google, ibm, JPMorganChase, microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, RapidFort, red hat, The Linux FoundationAkrites, a new Linux Foundation initiative backed by many of the world’s largest tech and financial firms, is the industry’s latest attempt to get ahead of AI‑accelerated software supply chain risks by ...
