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Microsoft-owned GitHub announced that its GitHub Copilot Chat will become generally available in December 2023, and will offer GitHub Copilot Enterprise in February 2024 for $39 a person per month.

Microsoft has released the preview version 0.6 of its Dev Home app. The new version includes some improvements for its machine configuration summary features along with a number of bug fixes.

GitHub has announced the general availability of passkey for all its users. The announcement comes just months after the company had started beta testing the feature with a select group of users.

GitHub Copilot Chat was launched earlier this year for business customers, but now the beta version of the generative AI code assistant is available to everyone across Visual Studio and VS Code.

Microsoft's GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps will allow software developers to work in the cloud with a number of extra security features that are available with a special license.

Due to a misconfigured cloud storage setting on GitHub, Microsoft accidentally exposed over 38TB of internal data for over two years. This includes backups of employee passwords and messages.

GitHub's Copilot Chat AI is now available in public beta. It gives developers a ChatGPT-like experience when coding. The tool will initially be available to businesses and organisations.

GitHub has added public beta passkey support. Passkeys are a new login method that removes the need for passwords and two-factor authentication. They are supported on modern browsers and devices.

GitHub has said that generative AI tools for developers will lead to a huge $1.5 trillion boost to global GDP by the year 2030. It said people are still learning what it can do to help them.

This public preview allows Microsoft's Azure DevOps users to access all the GitHub Advanced Security features, including secret scanning, dependency scanning, and CodeQL code scanning capabilities.

Apple has told its employees to stop using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot because it's worried about confidential data leaking out to other companies that could abuse it.

GitHub now allows npm package developers to link their published packages to their source code to prove that the package was built from the source. This will help build trust and boost security.

GitHub users will now be able to privately report vulnerabilities to code maintainers. The feature was in public beta since last year but has been graduated to general availability.

The GitHub Shop has some new arrivals including a premium book called Art of the Octocat, which costs $125 but will only be printed in limited numbers, making it ideal for GitHub super fans.

Twitter revealed the source code leak in a court filing on Friday, but there's no word on who posted the code on GitHub, nor how long it was available on the Microsoft-owned software development site.

As announced back in January, Microsoft is increasing the cost of its Microsoft Cloud services by up to 15% in certain regions of Europe. This move will impact organizations, not consumers.

GitHub Copilot X will add a chat interface to the editor that suggests code and examines it, proposes edits to fix broken code, and more. Sign-ups are available for its technical preview.

Microsoft has announced GitHub Copilot for Business with the promise of transforming developers' productivity and helping them code faster. It has also announced "greater benefits" for organizations.

Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly covers the launch of the OpenAI-powered version of Bing, what's next for Windows 11, and a range of updates for first- and third-party software for Windows.

Another company in the tech industry has announced a round of layoffs as GitLab, key competitor to Microsoft's GitHub, confirms that it will be reducing its team size by 7% overall.

Access management solutions provider Okta recently had its GitHub source code repositories hacked. The company assures the public that no customer data was stolen, and Okta remains operational.

Microsoft has helped launch the Industry Data for Society Partnership to bring private-sector data to the public. It hopes the initiative will help tackle big societal issues such as climate change.

Be careful before you install that TikTok "unfiltering" software — it might be loaded with malware that can steal your passwords, Discord accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, and credit card data.

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Microsoft's employees have exposed sensitive login credentials to the company's own infrastructure on several platforms and services, potentially offering a new vector for attackers.

This free eBook explores 21 GitHub security practices that can increase the robustness of your repositories and help implement a security-first approach for your development teams.

Microsoft has announced the general availability of GitHub Copilot, its AI-powered development assistant. If you're looking for an AI to help you write code, you can give it a go at $10/month.

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NVIDIA has open-sourced its Linux GPU kernel drivers for products made and released after 2018. This means GPU functionalities like the clock and thermal management are now available for tweaking.

Do you know that Microsoft Start has 500 million monthly active users or that Power BI has over 200,000 customers? If not, check out our list of some interesting usage stats about Microsoft products.

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