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GitHub logs 8 July outages as Azure move crosses 50%
Eight incidents, including a seven-hour Enterprise Cloud failure, hit GitHub in July while more than half of its read traffic ran on…
17 nominees run for 5 Python packaging council seats
The PSF confirmed a crowded ballot for the first Python Packaging Council, and voting members have until Aug. 25 to affirm before…
GitHub says AI agents reshape developer workflows
GitHub argues coding agents push developers toward planning, review and delegation work, changing how teams split tasks and judge quality.
GitHub rolls out org-wide repository rule insights
GitHub's new org-level rule insights dashboard shows repository ruleset enforcement across every repo at once, replacing manual per-repo governance checks.
Meta-LoRA cuts cross-domain LLM personalization loss
Meta-LoRA cuts cross-domain LLM personalization loss 47.9% and lifts cold-start win rates 110.2%, arXiv preprint benchmarks show.
GitHub lets maintainers block spammers in comments
Maintainers of personally owned GitHub repositories can now block or unblock a user straight from an issue or pull request comment, with…
GitHub halves missing license data on 170M packages
GitHub now reads licenses from npm and PyPI instead of file scans, cutting missing data on 170M packages from 45% to 24%…
GitHub Copilot adds Kimi K3 and portable plugins
GitHub Copilot's Aug. 10 weekly release brings Kimi K3 to paid plans, makes Agent Plugins 1.0 portable across editors, and upgrades CLI…
GitHub Copilot adds xAI’s Grok 4.6 reasoning model
xAI's Grok 4.6 reasoning model is rolling out in GitHub Copilot across Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans, with admins enabling it for…
GitHub OAuth apps get refresh tokens and 10 redirect URIs
GitHub now lets OAuth apps request short-lived access tokens with refresh support and register up to 10 redirect URIs, tightening app security.