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GitHub Copilot introduces new limits, charges for ‘premium’ AI models

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GitHub Copilot, Microsoft-owned GitHub’s AI coding assistant, could soon become costlier for some users. On Friday, GitHub announced “premium requests” for GitHub Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limits when users switch to AI models other than the base model for tasks such as “agentic” coding and multi-file edits. While GitHub Copilot subscribers can […]

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Thousands of exposed GitHub repos, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot

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Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. Thousands of once-public GitHub repositories from some of the world’s biggest companies are affected, including Microsoft’s, according to new findings from Lasso, an Israeli cybersecurity

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Thousands of exposed GitHub repositories, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot

Security /

Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. Thousands of once-public GitHub repositories from some of the world’s biggest companies are affected, including Microsoft’s, according to new findings from Lasso, an Israeli cybersecurity

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GitHub Copilot brings mockups to life by generating code from images

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GitHub has announced a slew of updates for Copilot, while also giving a glimpse into a more agentic future for its AI-powered pair programmer. Among the notable updates includes a feature called Vision for Copilot, which allows users to attach a screenshot, photo, or diagram to a chat, with Copilot generating the interface, code, and

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GitHub launches $1.25M open source fund with a focus on security

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The open source funding problem is very real, but a slew of initiatives have emerged of late, with startups, corporations, and venture capitalists launching various programs to support some of the most critical projects via equity-free financing. Today it’s GitHub’s turn, launching the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund with an initial commitment of $1.25 million

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GitHub’s Copilot goes multi-model and adds support for Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini

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GitHub today announced that it will now allow developers to switch between a number of large language models when they use Copilot Chat, its code-centric ChatGPT-like service. Until now, Copilot Chat was powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. Going forward, developers can choose between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o1-preview, and

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