WTF?! Microsoft's GitHub is rolling back a controversial update after developers discovered that its AI assistant, Copilot, was quietly inserting promotional messages into user-generated pull requests ...

Over the years, generative AI has exploded in usage, but the party is coming to an end. For a while, the industry operated in some sort of "subsidy window" where giant AI labs and venture capitalists ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

Microsoft is updating GitHub Copilot’s data usage policies to allow the AI to learn directly from user interactions, marking a shift away from relying primarily on public repositories and internal ...

GitHub's Copilot SDK lets developers embed AI agents into applications. New tutorial shows server-side integration patterns for mobile apps. GitHub published a detailed technical guide on integrating ...

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, repositories, and extensions on GitHub, npm, and VSCode/OpenVSX extensions. Evidence ...

GitHub Copilot extension Extensions sidebar → search "GitHub Copilot" Copilot Chat extension Extensions sidebar → search "GitHub Copilot Chat" This plugin registers 13 agents via a plugin.json ...

GitHub's latest VS Code update introduces agent plugins, browser automation tools, and shared memory across Copilot products for complex coding workflows. GitHub shipped Visual Studio Code v1.110 on ...

A vulnerability in GitHub Codespaces could have been exploited by bad actors to seize control of repositories by injecting malicious Copilot instructions in a GitHub issue. The artificial intelligence ...

Amazon Q Developer outperformed GitHub Copilot Pro in some aspects, completing a complex editorial task in 5 minutes compared to Copilot's 15 minutes. While GitHub Copilot demonstrated superior ...

Copilot Pro includes a monthly allowance of premium requests, and premium-model usage can consume that allowance faster than expected (especially with agentic, multi-step workflows). When premium ...

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