GitHub has enabled push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental exposure of secrets such as access tokens and API keys when pushing new code. Today's announcement comes ...

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What if you could spend less time sifting through pull requests and debugging errors, and more time crafting innovative solutions? For developers, the repetitive grind of code reviews and issue ...

New research on the effect of AI-powered GitHub Copilot on software development cites some adverse results. The "Coding on Copilot" whitepaper from GitClear sought to investigate the quality and ...

Copilot-enabled repos are 40% more likely to contain API keys, passwords, or tokens — just one of several issues security leaders must address as AI-generated code proliferates. AI coding assistants ...

Microsoft had a great thing going when it had GitHub Copilot all to itself in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code thanks to its ownership of GitHub, but that's eroding. That relationship resulted in ...

A hacker targets other hackers, gamers, and researchers with exploits, bots, and game cheats in source code hosted on GitHub that contain hidden backdoors to give the threat actor remote access to ...

GitHub Copilot Pro now supports GPT-5 in VS Code. A 30-day trial lets you test premium models for free. Add your OpenAI key to bypass Copilot restriction. First, open VS Code. Click the little Copilot ...