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Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub — Dev Class

Mozilla is to move the primary repository for its flagship Firefox web browser from Mercurial to GitHub, writes Tim Anderson. Here is the link: https://devclass.com/2023/11/07/mozilla-will-move-firefox-development-from-mercurial-to-microsofts-github/

Microsoft has over a million paying Github Copilot users: CEO Nadella — ZDNet

Microsoft is seeing big growth in the generative AI business, writes Tiernan Ray. 

GitHub CEO says Copilot will write 80% of code “sooner than later” — Freethink

The skills of the developer will be to figure out, “How small do I have to go until I can leverage AI to synthesize that code for me?”, says Thomas Dohmke in a Freethink interview with Ian Scheffler. 

AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever — ZDNet

Amazon said its AWS Shield service mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, writes Catalin Cimpanu. Here is the link: https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-said-it-mitigated-a-2-3-tbps-ddos-attack-the-largest-ever/

Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5B

Microsoft is acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. Subject to customary closing conditions and completion of regulatory review, the acquisition is expected to close by the end of the calendar year.