GIGAZINE

Is the programming AI 'Copilot' learned from the GitHub source code a copyright infringement?

In June 2021, the software development platform GitHub released 'GitHub Copilot ', a function that complements the continuation of writing source code. There is a debate about the commercial use of ...
GIGAZINE

GitHub Copilot of code completion AI has 'risk of destroying open source community' in addition to copyright issue

GitHub Copilot, developed jointly by Microsoft, which owns GitHub, a software development platform, and OpenAI, an artificial intelligence development organization, is a service that complements code ...
Visual Studio Magazine

One-Click VS Code in Browser from GitHub Repo ('How Did I Not Know This?')

Hundreds of developers expressed amazement at a new preview feature introduced this month by GitHub: the ability to instantly open up Visual Studio Code in a browser in order to edit the source code ...
TechCrunch

GitHub Copilot can now tell developers when its suggestions match code in a public repository

GitHub Copilot has changed how developers write their code. However, it can also create issues when it creates code similar to what’s already available in another public repository. In 2022, GitHub ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft open-sources VS Code Copilot Chat extension on GitHub

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...
ITWire

iTWire - Microsoft releases OS source code on GitHub

Microsoft released the source code for MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 on GitHub at the beginning of this month. After releasing the source code to the Computer History Museum in 2014, Microsoft announced the ...
Bleeping Computer

Decompiled Undertale RPG Source Code Released on GitHub

The decompiled source code for the popular video game Undertale has been posted to GitHub. This decompilation contains what appears to be all of the game's assets, including its images, scripts, and ...

CamoLeak: GitHub Copilot Flaw Allowed Silent Data Theft

A GitHub Copilot Chat bug let attackers steal private code via prompt injection. Learn how CamoLeak worked and how to defend ...
The Washington Post

Twitter says parts of source code posted online, seeks leaker

Some of the computer code that powers Twitter has been leaked online, a legal filing claims, posing the latest challenge for Elon Musk’s social media network. A user identified in court documents as ...
TechCrunch

GitHub takes down repository containing Twitter’s source code

GitHub has taken down a repository by a user named “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” that contained Twitter’s proprietary source code after the social network filed a DCMA takedown request. The username ...
HealthcareInfoSecurity

GitHub Copilot Chat Flaw Let Private Code Leak Via Images

A now-patched flaw in GitHub Copilot Chat could have allowed attackers to steal private source code and secrets by embedding ...
Threat Post

Octopus Scanner Sinks Tentacles into GitHub Repositories

At least 26 different open-source code repositories were found to be infected with an unusual attack on the open-source software supply chain. The Octopus Scanner malware, which targets the Apache ...