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NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns

Tue, 05/05/2026 - 10:15
Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos.…

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Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

Tue, 05/05/2026 - 09:30
If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

Opinion  It's been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users. We learnt that Windows 11's epic habit of trying to corral customers into paid-for Microsoft services just got worse with a low-rent trick. Remote Desktop got a bit more secure, which is good, but in a way that suggests not too much user testing took place. As for GitHub… GitHub got two helpings of Chef Redmondo's Special Sauce.…

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