Microsoft reshuffles teams to bolster GitHub as AI coding and agent wars heat up

GitHub, the dominant software development platforms, is responding to the rise of AI coding services and AI agents ...

GitLab downgraded to Neutral on rising competition from Atlassian, GitHub: Cantor

Cantor downgrades GitLab (GTLB) to Neutral, cuts price target to $40 on DevSecOps competition and softer SMB/public demand.
Bleeping Computer

GitHub expands security tools after 39 million secrets leaked in 2024

GitHub announced updates to its Advanced Security platform after it detected over 39 million leaked secrets in repositories during 2024, including API keys and credentials, exposing users and ...
VentureBeat

GitHub's Agent HQ aims to solve enterprises' biggest AI coding problem: Too many agents, no central control

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with Ideogram v.3.0 GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don't need another proprietary coding agent: They need a way to manage all of them. At its ...

A former Google Cloud engineering leader is joining Microsoft-owned GitHub to lead its data group

Rachel Potvin will join GitHub as VP, leading the data team. Here's how she plans to use what she learned at Google Cloud to make coding more accessible.
ZDNet

GitHub to replace "master" with alternative term to avoid slavery references

GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday. The code-hosting portal is just ...