The Hacker News

Public GitHub Issue Could Trick GitHub Agentic Workflows Into Leaking Private Repo Data

The issue affects GitHub Agentic Workflows setups that read public input, hold private repo access, and can post output ...
The Hacker News

GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code

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GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely

Malicious prompters could easily trick GitHub agents into pulling data from private repositories and then leaking the ...
The Next Web

Researchers broke GitHub Copilot’s safety by hiding harm in a workflow

Alan Turing Institute researchers made GitHub Copilot produce harmful content it refuses in chat, by spreading the request across a coding workflow.

GitHub Copilot: Sorry Dave, I can't do that harmful thing - unless you ask me in code

According to the tests, the models showed “near-complete refusal” when asked via chat, in a single, direct prompt, according ...
TechCrunch

GitHub Copilot gets extensions

Build is Microsoft’s largest developer conference and of course, it’s all about AI this year. So it’s no surprise that GitHub’s Copilot, GitHub’s “AI pair programming tool,” is taking center stage for ...
Neowin

GitHub removes manual model selection from Copilot free and student plans

GitHub is removing the ability to manually select an AI model from its Copilot Free and Student plans, making its automatic routing system the default and only way to choose a model. This means users ...
The Verge

GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta

GitHub’s AI-powered coding chatbot is available to Copilot for Business users starting today. GitHub’s AI-powered coding chatbot is available to Copilot for Business users starting today. is a news ...