Tag: microsoft
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, microsoft, Microsoft TeamsGitHub, 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 ...
Microsoft Decouples AI Agents From the VS Code Editor in Latest Release
Microsoft has shipped Visual Studio Code 1.133, and the headline change is architectural rather than cosmetic: AI agent sessions now run in a dedicated background process rather than within the editor's extension ...
Microsoft’s New Testing Agent Tackles the Trust Gap in AI-Generated Code
AI coding assistants write code fast. Whether that code can be trusted is a separate question, and it's becoming a more urgent one. Surveys this year put average developer trust in AI-generated ...
N. Korea Group Behind Multiple Open Source Supply-Chain Attacks: Amazon
Jeff Burt | | Amazon, Axios, chalk package, Contagious Interview, generative AI, google, malicious npm packages, microsoft, North Korea, open source libraries, software supply chain attacks, typo-crypto, WizAmazon’s recent report attributing a series of compromises of open source software libraries to a North Korea-backed threat group encapsulates many of the expanding cyber risks increasingly facing developers, from the growing ...
VS Code 1.129 Moves Agent Sessions Out of the Editor Window
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.129, and the headline change isn't a new feature so much as a new foundation. The update introduces the agent host, a dedicated process that runs ...
Novee Uncovers Cordyceps: The Latest Threat to CI/CD Pipelines
Jeff Burt | | AI coding agents, apache, CI/CD security, Cloudflare, code repositories, Cordyceps, GitHub Actions, google, microsoft, Novee, npm malware, PyPi, Python, supply chain attacks, WizA newly discovered supply chain security flaw is once again putting a spotlight on inherent weaknesses in CI/CD pipelines and the growing interest among cyberthreat actors to exploit them. Security researchers with ...
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 ...
Microsoft Brings the Azure SDK for Rust to General Availability
Microsoft has moved the Azure SDK for Rust out of beta and into general availability, giving Rust developers a stable, production-ready way to connect to core Azure services. The release covers Core, ...
Microsoft Enlists AWS to Help GitHub Handle Explosive Growth in AI Development
Microsoft has reportedly begun using Amazon Web Services to provide additional computing capacity for GitHub as a dramatic rise in AI-assisted software development places unprecedented demands on the coding platform. The news ...
Security Flaw in Claude Code Illustrates the Risk of AI in Developer Workflows
Jeff Burt | | agentic AI in development, Anthropic Claude Code, bash, CI/CD and AI agents, exposed secrets, GitHub Actions, microsoft, prompt injectionAI coding agents are reshaping software development—but they’re also expanding the attack surface. Researchers uncovered a now-patched vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Code GitHub Action that could have enabled prompt injection attacks to ...
Microsoft Brings AI Agents Directly Into the Windows Terminal
Microsoft's Intelligent Terminal 0.1 brings native AI agent integration to the Windows Terminal. Here's what DevOps engineers need to know ...
