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1 month, 3 weeks ago

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

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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4 months, 3 weeks 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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5 months, 3 weeks 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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6 months, 1 week 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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6 months, 1 week 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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6 months, 1 week 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, 1 week 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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9 months, 1 week 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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10 months 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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10 months, 1 week 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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54 years, 11 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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10 months, 2 weeks 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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1 year, 4 months ago

Data | India tops AI projects in GitHub

The Hindu

In 2022, software developers in India contributed to over 24% of AI related projects in GitHub, the most in the world, according to Stanford’s latest Artificial Intelligence Index Report. Journal publication share The chart shows the distribution of AI journal publications over the last 12 years, sorted by geographic region. In fact, all the top nine out of the ten …

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54 years, 11 months ago

GitHub’s Hardcore Plan to Roll Out Mandatory Two-Factor

Wired

You’ve heard the advice for years: Turn on two-factor authentication everywhere it’s offered. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas yesterday, John Swanson, director of security strategy at GitHub, presented findings from the dominant software development platform's two-year effort to research, plan, and then start rolling out mandatory two-factor for all accounts. “There’s a lot of talk about …

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1 year, 7 months ago

OpenAI hearing: Sam Altman charmed Congress but made one slip-up.

Slate

On Tuesday, lawmakers, A.I. “It’s significant,” he said, particularly given that just two weeks ago, a judge rejected OpenAI, GitHub, and Microsoft’s latest attempt to have key claims dismissed. Pamela Samuelson, a director of Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, who has been closely following the suit, said she wouldn’t call the case “strong.” But neither would she hand-wave it …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Twitter makes some source code public

The Hindu

Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, allowing users and programmers a peek into its workings and the ability to suggest modifications to the algorithm. They include the source code for many parts of Twitter, including the recommendations algorithm which controls the tweets that users see on their …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Twitter reveals parts of source code, days after its leak

Hindustan Times

Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, allowing users and programmers a peek into its workings and the ability to suggest modifications to the algorithm. They include the source code for many parts of Twitter, including the recommendations algorithm which controls the tweets that users see on their …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Tech Layoffs: Microsoft fires entire engineering team at GitHub India, over 140 people laid off

Firstpost

GitHub’s Indian engineering team was the second largest in the world, right after GitHub’s US team. “Workforce reductions were made today as part of difficult but necessary decisions and realignments to both protect the health of our business in the short term and grant us the capacity to invest in our long-term strategy moving forward,” GitHub said in an official …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Microsoft-owned Github fires entire Indian engineering team

Hindustan Times

Github, a Microsoft-owned software code hosting platform, has fired its entire Indian engineering team of over 140 developers in order to "streamline" the company's operations. The layoffs on the Indian team are surprising given that the country is one of the world's largest developer markets and a important technical hub for many major businesses. “As part of the reorganization plan …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Microsoft-owned GitHub India sacks over 140 engineers, say reports

Live Mint

Microsoft-owned GitHub has laid off its nearly 142 engineering roles in its India operations, according to Business Today report. The email read, “We are announcing a number of difficult decisions, including saying goodbye to some Hubbers and enacting new budgetary realignments, designed to protect the short-term health of our business while also granting us the capacity to invest in our …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Twitter Says Parts Of Its Source Code Got Leaked On GitHub, Sends Copyright Infringement Notice

ABP News

Twitter has sent a copyright infringement notice to GitHub after admitting that parts of its source code were leaked on the open-source coding platform, reports The New York Times. In a tweet earlier this month, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that the company will open source all code used for recommending tweets on March 31. Musk tweeted: "Twitter will open …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Parts of Twitter's source code leaked online? Report says…

Hindustan Times

Some parts of Twitter's source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online, the social media company said in a legal filing on Sunday. Twitter also asked the court to identify the alleged infringer or infringers who posted Twitter’s source code on systems operated by GitHub without Twitter’s authorization. The leak creates …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Privacy a casualty in race to develop generative AIs like ChatGPT

The Hindu

Published : Mar 09, 2023 10:50 IST The world of technology seems to have been turned upside down since OpenAI showcased ChatGPT and its ability to generate text as humans would. But the big question everyone is asking is: what are the implications of a generative AI in our information society, in jobs, in education and every sector where ChatGPT …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Want to get Google Play Store on your Windows 11 system? Check step-by-step guide here

Firstpost

Go to GitHub and create an account. You will first need to uninstall Windows Subsystem for Android and enable Developer Mode in order to begin downloading Google Play Store. Here is a step-by-step guide to the process, according to Android Authority: Steps for installing Google Play Store on windows 11: Step 1: To uninstall the current version of Windows Subsystem …

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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

‘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

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

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

Data | India tops AI projects in GitHub

GitHub’s Hardcore Plan to Roll Out Mandatory Two-Factor

OpenAI hearing: Sam Altman charmed Congress but made one slip-up.

Twitter makes some source code public

Twitter reveals parts of source code, days after its leak

Tech Layoffs: Microsoft fires entire engineering team at GitHub India, over 140 people laid off

Microsoft-owned Github fires entire Indian engineering team

Microsoft-owned GitHub India sacks over 140 engineers, say reports

Twitter Says Parts Of Its Source Code Got Leaked On GitHub, Sends Copyright Infringement Notice

Parts of Twitter's source code leaked online? Report says…

Privacy a casualty in race to develop generative AIs like ChatGPT

Want to get Google Play Store on your Windows 11 system? Check step-by-step guide here