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Anthropic issued a takedown notice under US digital copyright law asking GitHub to take down repositories containing the offending code. According to Github's records, the notice was executed against some 8,100 repositories - including legitimate forks of Anthropic's own publicly released Claude Code repository.

GitHub is readying a new feature to automate some of the most expensive work in DevOps: the invisible housekeeping no one wants to own. Developers would rather be building features than debugging flaky continuous integration (CI) pipelines, triaging low-quality issues, updating outdated documentation, or closing persistent gaps in test coverage. In order to help developers and enterprises manage the operational drag of maintaining repositories, GitHub is previewing Agentic Workflows, a new feature that uses AI to automate most routine tasks associated with repository hygiene.

According to Rémi Verschelde, project manager of Godot Engine and co-founder of the platform's financial backer W4 Games, the never-ending wave of "AI slop" pull requests on Godot's GitHub is becoming "increasingly draining and demoralizing" for its maintainers, to the point that over 4,600 pull requests are currently open on the engine's GitHub page.

GitHub is exploring what already seems like a controversial idea that would allow maintainers of repositories or projects to delete pull requests (PRs) or turn off the ability to receive pull requests as a way to address an influx of low-quality, often AI-generated contributions that many open-source projects are struggling to manage.

"We've been hearing from you that you're dedicating substantial time to reviewing contributions that do not meet project quality standards for a number of reasons - they fail to follow project guidelines, are frequently abandoned shortly after submission, and are often AI-generated," Moraes wrote. "As AI continues to reshape software development workflows and the nature of open source collaboration, I want you to know that we are actively investigating this problem and developing both immediate and longer-term strategic solutions."

"Bill used to always say that there's only one category: It's called Information Management," CEO Satya Nadella said in the meeting. "In fact, the thing he used to get frustrated by is, why the heck do I have a different app for writing a document, a different app for a website, and a different (development software) for writing an app?"

Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion, in a move that was nervously received by the developer community at the time. The company has mostly remained independent at Microsoft since then, but the resignation of former CEO Thomas Dohmke less than two months ago has shaken up how GitHub operates. GitHub is now gearing up for a huge migration over to Microsoft's own Azure servers, just months after Dohmke's resignation memo.

Australia's eSafety Commissioner has written to GitHub to ask it to consider if it's a social network that endangers children. The reason for the cyber-safety regulator's correspondence is Australia's imminent requirement that some social media platforms restrict access to Australian residents under 16 years of age, on the grounds that such services can be harmful to children. The ban on providing service to kids under 16 starts on December 10th,

The resilience of DevOps platforms is being tested like never before. According to GitProtect.io's just-released DevOps Threats Unwrapped: Mid-Year Report 2025, disruptions across the leading DevOps tools - GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira and Azure DevOps - have grown not only in volume but in severity. The findings paint a stark picture: 330 incidents in the first half of 2025 alone, impacting developer velocity, business continuity, and cloud-native operations across the globe.

GitHub Spark, now available in public preview for Copilot Pro+ subscribers, represents a paradigm shift in how we approach application development. At its core, Spark eliminates the traditional friction points that prevent rapid prototyping and deployment.

GitDiagram offers a solution by converting GitHub repositories into interactive diagrams, providing a visual representation of the codebase's architecture.

Monthly premium request allowances for paid GitHub Copilot users are now in effect.”

It's lovely to see that those folks that bring fresh ideas, a great amount of energy, the latest learnings from college and university, and often a different, diverse background into the company.

GitHub's shift to externalize the Remote MCP server is a technically deliberate response.

The value of your startup isn't defined by what you can develop using cheap measures.

Amazon Q Developer integrates with GitHub, allowing developers to automate feature development, conduct code reviews, and migrate Java code directly on the platform.

The vulnerable code snippet was found first in 2010 in a GitHub Gist, and it spread to Stack Overflow, famous companies, tutorials, and even university courses.