ZDNet

Github tops 40 million developers as Python, data science, machine learning popularity surges

Github has grown to more than 40 million developers and its growth is getting a big boost from data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning repositories. In its annual Octoverse report, ...

GitHub to use Copilot interaction data for AI model training

GitHub Copilot already ruffled feathers when it first arrived. and now it's going to use your interactions with it to train ...

GitHub Copilot will use your data for AI training by default, but you can opt out

GitHub describes this training data as inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context, but the fine print goes into ...

GitHub Reverses Course And Will Train AI On Your Copilot Data Unless You Opt Out

Starting on April 24th, all GitHub Copilot interaction data including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train GitHub's AI ...
Dark Reading

GitHub Copilot 'CamoLeak' AI Attack Exfiltrates Data

Every week or two nowadays, researchers come up with new ways of exploiting agentic AI tools built crudely into software platforms. Since companies are far more concerned with providing AI ...
Nature

Democratic databases: science on GitHub

When the Ebola outbreak in West Africa picked up pace in July 2014, Caitlin Rivers started to collect data on the people affected. Rivers, then a PhD student in computational epidemiology, wanted to ...