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4 weeks, 1 day ago

How AI tools are reshaping the coding workforce

After years of hype and panic over how many jobs AI will extinguish or replace, it’s clear the technology is bringing some big changes to the coding workforce. AI coding tools, which can automate large portions of code development, emerged as an early generative AI use case, driving double digit percentage efficiency gains and helping more code get written faster. …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Google launches AI coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist, free for individual users

The Hindu

Google has unveiled a new AI coding tool for enterprises called Gemini Code Assist, which is available for free to individual users. In a blog post making the announcement, the company said that the tool is being launched in public preview today with the goal to make new AI capabilities “more accessible for students, hobbyists, freelancers and startups.” The company …

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55 years, 3 months ago

DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers

Wired

Engineers for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, are working on new software that could assist mass firings of federal workers across government, sources tell WIRED. There is a repository in the Office of Personnel Management’s enterprise GitHub system titled “autorif” in a space created specifically for the director’s office—where Musk associates have taken charge—soon after Trump …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Google launches free AI coding assistant: What is it, what does it do, and other details

India Today

Google has rolled out a free version of its AI-powered coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist. Google has introduced a free version of its AI-powered coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist. By offering a larger context window and monthly code completion limit compared to competitors like GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist provides users with greater flexibility and convenience for their coding needs. …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

GitHub Copilot launches Agent Mode, previews autonomous agent for coders

The Hindu

GitHub has announced a new tool called Agent Mode that will help developers generate code, look for bugs and fix them automatically. CEO Thomas Dohmke announced the news on X saying, “Today, we are infusing the power of agentic AI into the GitHub Copilot experience, elevating Copilot from pair to peer programme.” The Microsoft-backed platform also teased its new autonomous …

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2 months ago

After Perplexity, Microsoft introduces DeepSeek R1 on Azure AI Foundry and GitHUB

Live Mint

Tech giant Microsoft has added DeepSeek R1 to the model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, expanding its collection of over 1,800 AI models. In a blog post, Microsoft said that this new addition comes as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to provide a wide variety of AI solutions, including frontier, open-source, industry-specific, and task-oriented models. “DeepSeek R1 …

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55 years, 3 months ago

GitHub’s Deepfake Porn Crackdown Still Isn’t Working

Wired

In late November, a deepfake porn maker claiming to be based in the US uploaded a sexually explicit video to the world’s largest site for pornographic deepfakes, featuring TikTok influencer Charli D’Amelio’s face superimposed onto a porn performer’s body. The video’s creator, “DeepWorld23,” has claimed in the comments that the program was a deepfake model hosted on developer platform GitHub. …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

PM Modi meets Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, praises tech giant’s expansion and investment plans for India

Firstpost

Microsoft’s long-standing presence in India has been instrumental in fostering this growth. Since setting up operations in Hyderabad, the company has expanded its workforce to 10,000 employees and made significant infrastructure investments In a post shared on social media, PM Modi appreciated Microsoft's efforts and noted the fruitful discussions on technology, artificial intelligence, and innovation during their meeting. Image Credit: …

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3 months, 1 week ago

GitHub launches free version of Copilot for VS Code

The Hindu

GitHub has announced a free version of its AI coding assistant Copilot, that will be integrated directly into Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor. GitHub Copilot Free will offer users with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month. With Copilot Free, another layer of offerings has been added like multi-file editing, terminal assistance which makes suggestions and corrects errors …

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5 months ago

India's Developers Dominate GitHub, Contributing 5.2 Billion Projects and Growing as a Global Tech Titan

Hindustan Times

GitHub, a platform for developers to create, store, manage, and share their code, has announced the rapid growth of Indian developers. The country is now the fastest-growing developer population on the planet, with 5.2 billion projects and 108 million new repositories created in 2024. India's developers are increasingly using AI to build AI, with the country ranking just below the …

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8 months ago

Microsoft’s GitHub launches playground for AI models

The Hindu

Microsoft’s developer platform GitHub has announced GitHub Models, an interactive sandbox environment for developers and engineers to explore different AI models for free. Leading models like Meta AI’s Llama 3.1, OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini, Mistral AI’s Mistral Large 2 and Cohere’s Command will be among the options available. Developers can use GitHub Models to deploy AI models via the …

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8 months, 1 week ago

A Hacker ‘Ghost’ Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub

Wired

A secretive network of around 3,000 “ghost” accounts on GitHub has quietly been manipulating pages on the code-hosting website to promote malware and phishing links, according to new research seen by WIRED. Antonis Terefos, a malware reverse engineer at Check Point who discovered the nefarious behavior, says the persona behind the network uses their false accounts to “star,” “fork,” and …

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9 months ago

‘Organisations must own the security implications of third party code in their software’ : Mike Hanley, GitHub

The Hindu

When Microsoft’s AI coding assistant was released in 2021, it ushered in a new era of coding done with a few simple prompts. So, when I came in, we brought all the security functions under one roof, day-to-day top-level functions inside the company reporting directly to the CEO, because that’s what we think it should be. Obviously, we’re big believers …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Github CEO visits Bengaluru’s Brigade Road, recreates 16-year-old throwback photo

Hindustan Times

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke revisited the iconic Brigade Road in Bengaluru on Wednesday, capturing a moment in the same spot where he stood 16 years ago. “Sixteen years later, I had to stop by Brigade Road on my way back home,” he said in a post on X. Thomas Dohmke, who was in India this week, went on to quote …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

GitHub's Thomas Dohmke shares pic from Bengaluru's Brigade Road: ‘I dearly love India’

Hindustan Times

Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub, said that India is his “new home away from home” as the tech boss visited Bengaluru for the company's in-person developer conference. Thomas Dohmke shared a picture clicked on Brigade Road at the exact spot where he had taken another picture in 2008. Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub, shared a photo from his …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

India poised to lead the world in the age of AI, says GitHub CEO

Live Mint

Artificial Intelligence is not just accelerating India's digital transformation; it's also set to boost the economy significantly. Dohmke noted, "Developers using Copilot are already 55% faster, propelling the software economy, valued in the trillions globally, to move even quicker thanks to AI." Infosys, too, uses GitHub Copilot to help its developers "become more productive, efficient, and enabling them to focus …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

India will be the global leader in the age of AI: GitHub CEO

New Indian Express

“India will not just be a global leader, but the global leader in the age of AI. And Indian businesses will carve a competitive advantage in the global market, as their developers build software with an accelerated speed of code,” Dohmke added. India is on the brink of a great convergence between the world’s largest population of developers and the …

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1 year ago

The New York Times has had enough of people ripping off Wordle

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A New York Times Co. spokesperson said the company …

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1 year ago

The New York Times is fighting off Wordle look-alikes with copyright takedown notices

The Hindu

The New York Times is fighting off Wordle “clones” — arguing that numerous games inspired by the mega-popular word-guessing game infringe on its copyright protections. In a prepared statement, a New York Times Co. spokesperson said the company has no issue with people creating similar word games that do not infringe its Wordle "trademarks or copyrighted gameplay." "I mean, probably …

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1 year, 1 month ago

From West to India, Reversing the Brain Drain

News 18

Western media is full of stories of Indian entrepreneurs “fleeing” to the West. As Hemant Mohapatra, who worked for several years in the West for AMD, Google and Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in a blog on Medium: “For those that don’t know me well, I went to the US in 2003 and have been visiting India 1-2 times a year till …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Did Chinese firm hack Indian government offices? All about I-Soon leak

India Today

A Chinese state-linked hacker group claimed to have targeted key offices of the Indian government, including the "PMO", and businesses like Reliance Industries Limited and Air India, according to leaked data reviewed by India Today's Open-Source Intelligence team. An India-focused page of what appears to be a brochure of iSoon Although the leak mentions targets of the cyber espionage operation, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

How does Code Llama 70B model compare with GitHub Copilot?

The Hindu

February 14, 2024 03:46 pm | Updated 03:46 pm IST On a mission to build open-source language models, Meta AI released an update to its range of Code Llama models on January 29. On to the HumanEval benchmark, a dataset of 164 programming problems that measure the functional correctness and logic of code generation models, Code Llama 70B scores 65.2, …

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55 years, 3 months ago

AI Is Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next

Wired

Many people—like, say, journalists—are understandably antsy about what generative artificial intelligence might mean for the future of their profession. Or are you going to be stuck in the past, on the wrong side of the ‘productivity polarity’?” In June 2021, GitHub launched a preview version of a programming aid called Copilot, which uses generative AI to suggest how to complete …

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1 year, 1 month ago

India biggest GitHub centre after U.S., says Microsoft’s Nadella

The Hindu

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, who is on a nationwide sales tour for the company’s Artificial Intelligence capabilities, said India is the fastest-growing market on GitHub, a Microsoft-owned software collaboration and innovation platform, with 13.2 million developers using the platform. ‘‘India is expected to overtake the U.S as the largest developer community on GitHub by 2027,” said Mr. Nadella …

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How AI tools are reshaping the coding workforce

Google launches AI coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist, free for individual users

DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers

Google launches free AI coding assistant: What is it, what does it do, and other details

GitHub Copilot launches Agent Mode, previews autonomous agent for coders

After Perplexity, Microsoft introduces DeepSeek R1 on Azure AI Foundry and GitHUB

GitHub’s Deepfake Porn Crackdown Still Isn’t Working

PM Modi meets Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, praises tech giant’s expansion and investment plans for India

GitHub launches free version of Copilot for VS Code

India's Developers Dominate GitHub, Contributing 5.2 Billion Projects and Growing as a Global Tech Titan

Microsoft’s GitHub launches playground for AI models

A Hacker ‘Ghost’ Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub

‘Organisations must own the security implications of third party code in their software’ : Mike Hanley, GitHub

Github CEO visits Bengaluru’s Brigade Road, recreates 16-year-old throwback photo

GitHub's Thomas Dohmke shares pic from Bengaluru's Brigade Road: ‘I dearly love India’

India poised to lead the world in the age of AI, says GitHub CEO

India will be the global leader in the age of AI: GitHub CEO

The New York Times has had enough of people ripping off Wordle

The New York Times is fighting off Wordle look-alikes with copyright takedown notices

From West to India, Reversing the Brain Drain

Did Chinese firm hack Indian government offices? All about I-Soon leak

How does Code Llama 70B model compare with GitHub Copilot?

AI Is Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next

India biggest GitHub centre after U.S., says Microsoft’s Nadella