GitHub Enterprise Server 3.13.3 tackles critical SAML vulnerability

GitHub has released Enterprise Server 3.13.3, addressing several security vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw affecting instances using SAML single sign-on. 

Alongside security patches, the update delivers bug fixes, minor feature enhancements, and changes to the platform.

The most pressing issue tackled by this update is a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-6800) impacting instances employing SAML SSO with specific Identity Providers...

22 August 2024 | Git

Unit 42 researchers uncover critical GitHub Actions vulnerability

A new attack vector that could compromise GitHub repositories has been uncovered by researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 team. The vulnerability, which exploits GitHub Actions artifacts generated during CI/CD workflows, could potentially grant high-level access to cloud environments.

The researchers found that a combination of misconfigurations and security flaws can cause artifacts to leak tokens, including those for third-party cloud services and GitHub itself. These...

15 August 2024 | Developer

GitHub’s Copilot Autofix triples vulnerability remediation speed

Shipping software quickly often comes at the cost of security, with vulnerabilities inadvertently making their way into production code. This poses a significant challenge, as many developers find security requirements complex and difficult to implement.

"Developers are shipping software faster than previously imaginable, releasing new features early and often. Yet, despite their best efforts to code securely, software vulnerabilities inadvertently make their way into production...

14 August 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

Sterling Chin, Postman: Transforming API testing and documentation with AI

In an interview ahead of AI & Big Data Expo Europe, Sterling Chin, Senior Developer Advocate at Postman, shed light on the company's AI-powered tool Postbot and its impact on API development.

Postbot is Postman's intelligent assistant designed to tackle two perennial pain points in API development: testing and documentation.

"The major pain points that Postbot solves is allowing you to – by click of a button – generate tests for your APIs, generate...

12 August 2024 | API

Unity’s EBITDA surges despite revenue decline

Unity has posted a 2% dip in revenue for the second quarter of 2024, reaching £358 million, down from £366 million in the previous quarter. Despite this slight decrease, the mobile game engine and infrastructure platform exceeded both its own guidance and analyst expectations.

Unity reported a net loss of £100 million for Q2, a significant reduction compared to the £232 million loss incurred in Q1. Restructuring and reorganisation costs were identified as the primary driver...

9 August 2024 | Development Tools

FRVR AI enables anyone to create their own games

Video games have emerged as a leading medium in digital entertainment. Despite the vast array of games available on nearly every device, many gamers aspire to create their own games that showcase their unique preferences and innovative ideas. While developing AAA games still requires significant resources and experienced teams, casual game development is becoming more accessible to those without prior experience. One of the most innovative tools for aspiring developers is FRVR AI, which...

6 August 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

Hugging Face partners with NVIDIA to democratise AI inference

Hugging Face has joined forces with NVIDIA to bring inference-as-a-service capabilities to one of the world's largest AI communities. This collaboration, announced at the SIGGRAPH conference, will provide Hugging Face's four million developers with streamlined access to NVIDIA-accelerated inference on popular AI models.

The new service enables developers to swiftly deploy leading large language models, including the Llama 3 family and Mistral AI models, with optimisation from...

30 July 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI slashes AI costs with high-performance GPT-4o mini

OpenAI has announced GPT-4o mini, a small model designed to make AI more accessible and affordable for developers. This new addition to the GPT family promises superior performance at a fraction of the cost of previous models, including the regular GPT-4o .

GPT-4o mini still boasts impressive capabilities, scoring 82% on the MMLU benchmark and outperforming GPT-4 on chat preferences in the LMSYS leaderboard. The model is priced at just 15 cents per million input tokens and 60...

19 July 2024 | API

Artificial Agency emerges from stealth with AI ‘behaviour engine’

Artificial Agency – an AI startup focused on generative behaviour for gaming – has emerged from stealth mode with a $16 million funding round led by Radical Ventures, Toyota Ventures, and other notable investors.

The company, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers and AAA gaming industry veterans, aims to revolutionise game development with its AI-powered behaviour engine; designed to seamlessly integrate runtime decision-making into various aspects of...

18 July 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

GitLab is reportedly up for sale

GitLab, funded by Google, may be up for sale, sources say

GitLab has reportedly garnered interest from buyers and is considering a sale. As AI and cloud computing fuel acquisitions in the technology sector, these mergers and acquisitions are increasingly under review.

Company overview and market position

At a valuation of about $8 billion, GitLab has positioned itself as an essential player in the software development space. Its platform automatically integrates various tools and provides a common tool for software design by...

18 July 2024 | Artificial Intelligence