GitHub bets on multi-agent software development with Copilot overhaul
GitHub is expanding Copilot beyond code generation and developer assistance, launching a redesigned Copilot app and a new Projects capability that enables teams to coordinate multiple AI agents, share context from tools and repos...
Mistral open-sources AI model despite warning it could aid cyberattacks
A trillion-parameter AI model that its developer says could help attackers carry out real cyberattacks is now free to download, modify and run outside the developer’s control. Mistral AI released the open weights of Mistral La...
AI agents are upending digital business processes
People have discovered AI agents running on cloud-based platforms, and suddenly, those agents are the answer to every bit of financial and operational friction in their lives. Move money from one bank account to another to chase ...
Simplifying .NET toolchain installs with dotnetup
If you’ve experimented with Rust, you already know how simple it is to get a basic toolchain in place, with the simple rustup command-line tool. The same tool works on Windows, macOS, and Linux, building a consistent environment ...
Gheist turns GitHub Actions into a secret extraction service
A threat actor dubbed Gheist is turning compromised GitHub accounts into credential-harvesting platforms. By planting malicious GitHub Actions workflows in private repositories, attackers can expose repository and environment sec...
Oracle adds native Snowflake service to OCI to ease data integration
Oracle on Tuesday said it has partnered with Snowflake to make the latter’s AI Data Cloud available as a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The partnership, announced at Oracle’s ongoing AI World conference, ...
Eight reasons you are better than coding agents
Last week I wrote about how coding agents are better developers than humans. I’ll stand by that — the current agents can write code better, faster, longer, and with far less complaining than we humans can. But that doesn’t make h...
Six elements of resilient AI orchestration platforms
While many organizations are in early AI agent rollouts, research suggests that more will scale to greater numbers of agents and assistants in the coming year. An August 2026 report states that 66% of enterprises are likely to in...
Attackers compromised 42 GitHub repositories by using files too large to be searched
A security research firm reported Monday that it had identified breaches of 42 third-party GitHub repositories in which attackers had deployed payload blobs large enough “to evade the GitHub search and API paths normally used to ...
Python jettisons the native JIT, at least for now
The experimental just-in-time compiler, or JIT, for CPython will be removed after its maintainers missed deadlines for its formalization set by the Python Steering Council. According to reporting at LWN.net, the move comes aft...