The AI coding craze gave GitHub its best month ever, executive tells employees

Usage of the company's Copilot AI coding tool surged after GitHub changed how it bills customers, the executive said.

Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back online after US export controls forced shutdown

Anthropic's powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, are back online globally after a three-week suspension due to US export ...
VentureBeat

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...

Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
InfoQ

GitHub Copilot Chat in Open Beta: Now Available for All Individuals in Visual Studio and VS Code

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Spencer Judge discusses the architectural ...
ZDNet

How to use GitHub's AI coding assistant for free - and why it's worth a try

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Are designers the new SWEs? Figma Make's new two-way GitHub integration turns designs into live, production code — with built-in governance

From an enterprise governance perspective, this means visual AI edits are subject to the exact same continuous integration pipelines, security checks, and code reviews as any traditional engineering ...
TechRepublic

How to add a GitHub repository to VS Code

Learn how to add a GitHub repository to VS Code as well as how to install a handy extension to manage pull requests and issues. Virtual Studio Code, also known as VS Code, is one of the most popular ...