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Cursor, known for its user-friendly interface, and Supermaven, known for its long-context technology, are joining forces to take on GitHub Copilot.
Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub in terms of total contributions.
GitHub Copilot is now available in Windows Terminal and Xcode, bringing AI-powered coding assistance to these platforms.
GitHub Spark is a new AI-powered tool that allows users to create mini web apps using natural language without any coding experience.
GitHub Copilot is now offering developers the ability to choose their preferred large language models (LLMs), including new options from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
Microsoft has made the Phi-3.5-MoE model available through Serverless API in Azure AI Studio and GitHub. This lightweight model outperforms many open models.
GitHub Enterprise Cloud will soon offer data residency support, starting with the European Union. This will allow enterprise customers to store their critical data in their preferred region
GitHub announced the preview availability of two new OpenAI models, o1-preview and o1-mini, in GitHub Copilot and Models. Developers can now test and integrate these models into their workflows.
Early tests integrating the OpenAI o1-preview with GitHub Copilot show that it can quickly debug hard performance bugs, suggest more sophisticated algorithms than before, and compute metrics.
GitHub has announced the arrival of fine-tuned models for Copilot Enterprise, enhancing code suggestions tailored to specific coding styles and languages for organizations.
New survey data from GitHub provides insights into the reception AI tools are getting among software developers and the organizations they work for. Participants were from four countries.
The Microsoft-owned GitHub code repository and developer service experienced an outage this evening. However, the service says it is "now fully operational" after over an hour of downtime.
GitHub has launched a new service called GitHub Models, which allows developers to experiment with various AI models for free. These include popular models like OpenAI's GPT-4, Microsoft's Phi 3, etc.
Microsoft-owned Activision has released a data set that includes the map Caldera, formerly released as part of Call of Duty: Warzone, as an open-source project on GitHub for non-commercial use.
GitLab, a prominent rival of GitHub, is allegedly looking for a buyer, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. One potential buyer is Datadog but there is no agreement yet.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise has just been updated with several new features. It can summarise pull requests, discussions, and files. This should help save you time when you're on the platform.
The Microsoft Loop collaboration app now officially supports integration with GitHub, Jira, and Trello content. These new features are currently available for Microsoft 365 work and school users.
Microsoft-owned GitHub has officially launched support for using GitHub Copilot Chat in its mobile apps on iOS and Android so developers can get generative AI answers to coding questions.
Microsoft has just revealed Infra Copilot, a spinoff of its GitHub Copilot generative AI coding service. Infra Copilot is designed to help nfrastructure professionals generate infra code.
File upload logic in GitHub's comments allows hackers to host malware on the service and abuse trusted developers and companies, such as Microsoft, to create legitimate-looking URLs.
Microsoft has announced that the company is now the official owner of the popular Script Lab Office developer add-in and will no longer be an open-source software project going forward.
Microsoft's GitHub has released GitHub Copilot Chat for JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA. It's available for everyone to use now following a private beta but requires a subscription.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.12 has just been made available for enterprises who want to self-host the GitHub software. This update focuses on control over deployment requirements and better security.
GitHub has launched a new Learning Pathway for GitHub Copilot. It's for business leaders who'll choose whether to deploy this tool for their developers. GitHub is also working on an upcoming pathway.
Microsoft-owned GitHub has made GitHub Copilot Enterprise generally available. It costs $39 a month per user and will provide businesses and organizations AI code creation and assistance.
In this easy-to-follow Dummies guide, you'll find insight into creating repositories, establishing projects, collaborating, incorporating open-source resources, to establish yourself in Github.
GitHub has opened up access to its Certifications for the public. They were previously open to employees and partners but now anyone can take the $200 exams to boost their credentials.
GitHub Copilot Chat, the generative AI-based chatbot for software developers, is now generally available for both individual developers as well as organizations after a long beta preview period.
Visual Studio Preview users with GitHub Copilot can now get smart suggestions for variable, method, and class names. This should help users make their code easier to understand for others.
Google has announced the general availability of Duet AI and Gemini Pro, its AI-powered code completion tool for developers. The tools now leverages partner datasets to help developers.
Microsoft-owned GitHub announced that its GitHub Copilot Chat will become generally available in December 2023, and will offer GitHub Copilot Enterprise in February 2024 for $39 a person per month.
Microsoft has released the preview version 0.6 of its Dev Home app. The new version includes some improvements for its machine configuration summary features along with a number of bug fixes.
A new report on the growing number of AI tools claims Microsoft is losing lots of money per user for its GitHub Copilot service. Some users are reportedly costing the company as much as $80 per month.
GitHub has announced the general availability of passkey for all its users. The announcement comes just months after the company had started beta testing the feature with a select group of users.
GitHub Copilot Chat was launched earlier this year for business customers, but now the beta version of the generative AI code assistant is available to everyone across Visual Studio and VS Code.
Microsoft's GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps will allow software developers to work in the cloud with a number of extra security features that are available with a special license.
Due to a misconfigured cloud storage setting on GitHub, Microsoft accidentally exposed over 38TB of internal data for over two years. This includes backups of employee passwords and messages.
Source code for Quake II's 2023 rerelease is now available for all. The classic gameplay brings modern updates and is as modder friendly as Doom. The code is GPL-licensed and on Github now.
Google introduces Project IDX, a cloud-based IDE for full-stack, multi-platform development. Built on Visual Studio Code, it offers AI-powered features such as Codey for intelligent coding assistance.
