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The agent coordination protocol hiding in plain sight: GitHub issues

Use GitHub issues to manage teamwork with agents across machines, projects, and AI platforms.

By Jon Udell

Sep 22, 20268 mins

Development ToolsGenerative AIGitHub

A maximum severity GitLab flaw could turn your CI/CD server into an attacker’s treasure trove

By Taryn Plumb

Sep 14, 20265 mins

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GitHub scales back bug bounties, reminds users security is their responsibility too

The cloud code repository asks security researchers to cut out the AI-generated noise and focus on reporting security problems that are its fault, not the fault of its users’.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 19, 2026 5 mins

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GitHub shifts Copilot to usage-based billing, signaling a new cost model for enterprise AI tools

The move reflects rising compute demands and agentic workflows, requiring CIOs to rethink budgeting and governance.

By Gyana Swain

Apr 28, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGitHubSoftware Development

GitHub adds Stacked PRs to speed complex code reviews

Breaking up is hard to do when it comes to large pull requests, so GitHub is stacking things in favor of development teams with a new feature to facilitate code reviews and prepare for an AI-driven surge in code changes.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 14, 2026 7 mins

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GitHub readies agents to automate repository maintenance

A technical preview promises to take on the unrewarding work in DevOps, but questions remain about controls over costs and access.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 18, 2026 6 mins

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GitHub previews support for Claude and Codex coding agents

Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise users now can run multiple coding agents directly inside GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code.

By Paul Krill

Feb 10, 2026 2 mins

Development ToolsGenerative AIGitHub

Is AI killing open source?

As LLMs and coding agents reduce reliance on small open-source libraries and make large ones harder to maintain, the future of open source looks smaller, quieter, and much more exclusive.

By Matt Asay

Feb 9, 2026 8 mins

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Building AI agents with the GitHub Copilot SDK

The GitHub Copilot SDK turns the Copilot CLI into a cross-platform agent host with Model Context Protocol support.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 3, 2026 8 mins

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Unplugged holes in the npm and yarn package managers could let attackers bypass defenses against Shai-Hulud

A researcher at Koi Security says the two key platforms have not plugged the vulnerabilities enabling the worm attacks, and ‘the JavaScript ecosystem deserves better.’

By Howard Solomon

Jan 26, 2026 4 mins

Development ToolsGitHubJavaScript

GitLab 2FA login protection bypass lets attackers take over accounts

The platform warns users of on-premises versions to upgrade to the latest versions; SaaS and web versions have been patched.

By Howard Solomon

Jan 21, 2026 6 mins

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Possible software supply chain attack through AWS CodeBuild service blunted

Researchers at Wiz, who discovered the hole, said it could have led to compromised AWS GitHub repositories.

By Howard Solomon

Jan 15, 2026 5 mins

Development ToolsGitHubSecurity

For agentic AI, other disciplines need their own Git

Git provides the structure that makes agentic workflows in software engineering viable. Other disciplines need an equivalent backbone.

By Abigail Wall

Jan 15, 2026 5 mins

Development ToolsGenerative AIVersion Control Systems

Why ‘boring’ VS Code keeps winning

Developer trust in tools and a reliable ecosystem are a hard combination to beat. Competing tools, like Google’s Antigravity, need to deliver more than innovation.

By Matt Asay

Jan 12, 2026 7 mins

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The agent coordination protocol hiding in plain sight: GitHub issues

A maximum severity GitLab flaw could turn your CI/CD server into an attacker’s treasure trove

GitHub pushes stacked pull requests into public preview

GitHub's public APIs are becoming an enterprise reconnaissance tool

GitHub Actions hardens checkout security to block ‘pwn request’ attacks

GitHub finally pulls the plug on automatic install script execution for npm

GitHub adds new Copilot features as usage-based billing takes effect

Hole in GitHub’s browser-based VSCode editor could lead to stolen token

GitHub admits major source code leak after 3,800 internal repositories breached

Articles

GitHub scales back bug bounties, reminds users security is their responsibility too

GitHub shifts Copilot to usage-based billing, signaling a new cost model for enterprise AI tools

GitHub adds Stacked PRs to speed complex code reviews

GitHub readies agents to automate repository maintenance

GitHub previews support for Claude and Codex coding agents

Is AI killing open source?

Building AI agents with the GitHub Copilot SDK

Unplugged holes in the npm and yarn package managers could let attackers bypass defenses against Shai-Hulud

GitLab 2FA login protection bypass lets attackers take over accounts

Possible software supply chain attack through AWS CodeBuild service blunted

For agentic AI, other disciplines need their own Git

Why ‘boring’ VS Code keeps winning

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