Anthropic Just Took GitHub’s #1 Spot With Its Own Repo — Dev Trends, Week of May 6–12
This week’s GitHub trending #1 was Anthropic’s own financial-services repo — 13K stars in 7 days. The theme: where and how do we run AI agents?
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VS Code Quietly Added Copilot as a Co-Author on Your Commits
VS Code 1.118 silently injected a Copilot co-author trailer into commits — rolled back in 1.119. Plus a Linux RAT hunting DevOps creds and the largest Canvas LMS breach to date.
Dev Trends Apr 20, 2026 — BOJ Shutting Down, Vercel Breach, Zig 0.16 I/O Overhaul
Six stories that shook the developer timeline: BOJ’s 16-year run ends, Vercel’s OAuth-chain breach, Zig 0.16 promotes I/O to an interface, and more.
Canvas Breach Hits 8,809 Schools at Once — Dev Trends, Week 2 of May
In one week: the largest SaaS breach on record, a 5-hour AWS outage, and back-to-back Apache/Linux RCEs. All three layers of the stack shook at once.