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As of October 15, 2026, GitHub has retired email notifications for repository push events, which are no longer sent. GitHub shut down the feature to help prevent spam and abuse.
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Browse all 95 published books as one connected wiki: pick a track on the left, follow prerequisites and see which books link back.
As of October 15, 2026, GitHub has retired email notifications for repository push events, which are no longer sent. GitHub shut down the feature to help prevent spam and abuse.
In this creator video, the host argues that AI can now reverse-engineer almost any software, citing examples of games being ported or remixed—Mario 64 in Elden Ring, Spider-Man in Batman: Arkham Knight, Minecraft in GTA V, and Snowboard Kids rebuilt for PC. He points to SRE Bench, a benchmark measuring whether AI agents can reconstruct a program's functionality without its source code, and credits 'GPT-6 Astra' (per the transcript) with solving roughly 88% of tasks on a single attempt and 99.2% within four tries. He references the benchmark's paper, 'The Next Cybersecurity Agent Challenge X: A Realistic Contamination-Free Reverse Engineering Benchmark,' attributed to researchers at Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, UCLA, UC Berkeley and Columbia. He explains 'clean-room engineering' as a legal method to replicate software without copying source code. He says he used the model in 'Ultra' mode to build his own video editor from a functional description—canceling his subscription to a video-editing service—and warns of a growing trend of 'revenge software,' where customers clone software from companies that anger them.
Docker's Harbor can now run every eval task in Docker Sandboxes, which are MicroVM environments for running agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor safely. With Sandboxes you can define custom network policies for fair, reproducible evals, and you can run evals locally or in the cloud, starting free on Docker Sandboxes on local surfaces and scaling up.
GitHub announced updates to HydraFusion, including an expanded model pool and improved orchestration workflows, and introduced a new option called HydraFusion Max. Both HydraFusion and HydraFusion Max are available across VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and GitHub Copilot.
Fireship reports that the FBI arrested Abdul Raman Alphazan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and OpenAI engineering lead on the Agents platform, for allegedly bugging the company's executive conference room. According to the criminal complaint, Alphazan used an internal agent to research meeting rooms and capacities, then between September 24 and 30 used his wife's ChatGPT account to learn how to build a Wi-Fi-enabled audio recording device with an encrypted SD card from a $23 Seed Studio microcontroller. He concealed it in toilet paper and plugged it into a USB port behind the TV in the conference room on September 28. OpenAI's technical surveillance countermeasures team found it after about 48 hours; OpenAI says it used its own models to analyze the device, and investigators matched a MAC address to the wife's ChatGPT history and used security footage showing him near the room. He was fired and arrested on October 9 and charged with one count of federal wiretapping. The complaint does not allege espionage or name a principal, but his bio lists him as an investor at a Riyadh VC firm next to a prince whose father is a senior Saudi intelligence official.
GitHub Actions workflow dependency lockfiles are now in public preview for GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. The announcement notes that tags and branches can move after a review.