GitHub stories

Okta warns North Korean operatives are landing remote tech jobs with stolen and synthetic identities to fund the regime and enable cyber attacks.

CodeRabbit launches Issue Planner beta, embedding AI prompt planning into Jira, Linear, GitHub and GitLab to cut failures from unclear briefs.

China-linked Warlock ransomware group exploits SmarterMail flaw for admin takeovers, chaining features to gain full Windows control.

Bitdefender says 17% of OpenClaw AI skills act maliciously, with crypto-focused tools spreading macOS infostealers into corporate networks.

Anthropic adds Claude plugins to Cowork, fuelling investor fears that agent-style AI could undermine traditional seat-based software.

AvePoint extends its Confidence Platform to tighten agentic AI governance and broaden multi-cloud backup across major SaaS and IaaS tools.

Empathix launches EMMY, a voice-led AI job search assistant for New Zealand and Australia that swaps job boards for conversational hiring.

Qodo 2.0 launches multi-agent AI code review to boost trust in autogenerated code, claiming 11% better detection of critical issues.

NeuBird AI’s agentic SRE platform autonomously resolved 230,000 alerts in a year, saving 12,000 hours and USD $1.8 million in costs.

Developers granting AI agents broad, unsupervised access to code and systems are creating new software supply chain and data exposure risks.

GitHub adds Claude and Codex to its Agent HQ hub, letting Copilot subscribers juggle multiple coding agents in a single workflow.

Security Journey launches AI-era developer manifesto and revamped platform to embed secure coding into everyday workflows and tooling.

Miro unveils an MCP server to pipe visual planning boards directly into AI coding tools, aiming to ground agentic workflows in shared context.

OpenAI has launched its Codex app for agent-based software development, with an Australian education provider integrating the tool into IT degrees.

Veracode upgrades its Package Firewall and testing tools to block malicious software packages before they enter development pipelines.

Dynatrace launches an agentic AI operations layer to automate cloud and AI-native workloads, aiming for self-healing, autonomous observability.

GitHub Copilot tops 4.7m paid users as GitHub pitches Agent HQ as the central hub for multi-vendor coding agents across its platform.

THE ICONIC expands Datadog observability across AWS microservices to keep Black Friday traffic spikes and checkouts running smoothly.

GitHub launches a Copilot SDK in technical preview, letting developers embed AI agent workflows into apps without building orchestration.

Hamilton-born Capture The Bug taps top US tech leaders to drive North American growth as demand rises for continuous security testing.