OpenAI developing GitHub rival as AI coding platform race intensifies

OpenAI is reportedly developing a code hosting platform that could compete with Microsoft’s GitHub, a move that would put the AI company in direct competition with one of its most important partners. The idea was explored after engineers experienced service disruptions that made GitHub temporarily unavailable in recent months, according to a report from The…

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EFF thinks it’s cracked the AI slop problem

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Thursday changed its policies regarding AI-generated code to “explicitly require that contributors understand the code they submit to us and that comments and documentation be authored by a human.” The EFF policy statement was vague about how it would determine compliance, but analysts and others watching the space speculate that…

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Azure’s new AI modernization tools

Microsoft has given Azure many hats: a serverless platform for distributed applications, a host for security and identity services, a place for big data, and an alternative to running your own data centers and infrastructure. It’s this last one that’s often forgotten since much of the thinking about cloud platforms focuses on new tools and…

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AI Is Running Into a $7 Trillion Wall

The rise of AI over the past two years or so has often been framed as a high stakes race. Bigger models, unbelievable company valuations, more compute and bigger datacenters. Every milestone reinforced the meteoric trajectory of AI’s growth. Could AI keep scaling without limit? Many hyperscalers and governments aligned around that vision, committing to…

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Microsoft’s reauthentication snafu cuts off developers globally

Microsoft officials have confirmed, and are trying to correct, a reauthentication snafu with developers in its Windows Hardware Program which has blocked an unknown number of independent software vendors (ISVs) from access to Microsoft systems. That in turn has interrupted operations for the their customers globally. The process started in October, when Microsoft began account…

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Offer customers passkeys by default, UK’s NCSC tells enterprises

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending passkeys as the default authentication method for businesses to offer consumers, citing industry progress that now makes them a more secure and user-friendly alternative to passwords. In a blog post published this week, the agency said passkeys can now be recommended to both the public and…

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