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DeepSeek open-sources the inference engine DeepInfer on GitHub

On October 29, 2026, DeepSeek open-sourced the inference engine DeepInfer on GitHub; this engine is the inference engine behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. Leiphone reported the same day that DeepInfer includes technologies such as MoE expert parallelism, asynchronous batch scheduling, custom kernels, and speculative decoding, and disclosed that a single cluster needs to process approximately 155 trillion tokens per day. Its Zero-Overhead Batch Scheduler lets the CPU schedule computation one round in advance, overlapping with GPU forward passes, and handles cross-round state misalignment through total_inflight_tokens accounting, Remap mapping, and DeferredRelease deferred reclamation. Currently, only offline inference capabilities are open; components such as online KV Cache storage and cross-replica load balancing have not yet been fully disclosed, and the official team has not separately published end-to-end speedup data for this scheduling mechanism relative to synchronous solutions.

GitHub announces that Copilot Fusion is officially available

At GitHub Universe 2026, held on October 28–29, 2026, GitHub announced that Copilot Fusion, which integrates automatic model selection and multi-model collaboration, is now generally available. It can be used in VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, the CLI, and JetBrains IDEs, and its three processing tiers—Standard, High, and Max—automatically determine which model to use and which of three execution modes—Single, Cascade, and Critique—to apply. The desktop GitHub Copilot app also began public beta testing of Projects, which centralizes materials, repositories, sessions, and artifacts for management in one place. GitHub says Fusion Max scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, within 2 points of Claude Code using Opus 5.5 Max, while its average API cost per task is about half and its time required is about 40% less. At the same conference, Jay Parikh, Microsoft's executive vice president of CoreAI, disclosed that the GitHub platform recorded 7.4 billion code commits in September alone, with more than 40% of pull requests initiated by AI agents.

GitHub announces that Copilot Fusion is officially available

On October 29, 2026, GitHub announced that Copilot Fusion is officially available. According to a report by Rohan Paul, the product can route coding tasks between Claude and GPT models; on Artificial Analysis's Coding Agent Index, its Max setting scored 60, compared with 62 for Claude Code, at a cost per task of $5.59 versus $11.42, with Fusion consuming 7.2M tokens per task, roughly half of Claude Code's usage. On the same day, Microsoft released multiple updates at GitHub Universe, stating that Copilot Fusion achieves frontier-level quality, is 40% faster, and reduces costs by up to 77%, and announced that a unified Copilot harness is entering Foundry as a managed service. There are currently no subsequent developments.

GitHub releases Octoverse report

GitHub released the Octoverse report on October 28. The report states that 1.3 billion pull requests were merged over the past twelve months, averaging 3.5 million per day, triple the figure for the same period last year; more than 40% of pull requests began with an agent-drafted opening, compared with 17% in March 2026; projects containing an AGENTS.md file received eight times as many commits as projects without such a file. TypeScript and Python each have about 13 million monthly contributors, tying as the most popular languages, with JavaScript close behind at 7.4 million; platform users grew to 225 million, with Germany ranking eighth at 6.3 million. Another report states that the report disclosed that merged pull requests grew to 220 million per month in less than a year, commits grew to 7.38 billion per month, and the rate of new repository creation doubled to 30.3 million per month.

GitHub releases Octoverse report

GitHub released the Octoverse report on October 28. The report states that 1.3 billion pull requests were merged over the past twelve months, averaging 3.5 million per day, triple the figure for the same period last year; more than 40% of pull requests began with an agent-drafted opening, compared with 17% in March 2026; projects containing an AGENTS.md file received eight times as many commits as projects without such a file. TypeScript and Python each have about 13 million monthly contributors, tying as the most popular languages, with JavaScript close behind at 7.4 million; platform users grew to 225 million, with Germany ranking eighth at 6.3 million. Another report states that the report disclosed that merged pull requests grew to 220 million per month in less than a year, commits grew to 7.38 billion per month, and the rate of new repository creation doubled to 30.3 million per month.

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JFrog discovered 42 GitHub repositories implanted with an npm worm

JFrog's security research team discovered 42 GitHub repositories implanted with execution hooks and hidden malicious code, and classified them under the npm worm campaign testmetest. These repositories belong to 11 legitimate owners, and attackers injected code through stolen accounts or employee permissions. When users launch Claude Code, Gemini, or Cursor in a project, or open a VS Code workspace with the corresponding settings, the related configuration may execute the hidden file .github/init.js. JFrog listed 15 npm packages with at least one version judged malicious, and recommended checking affected systems, reviewing repository configurations and workflows, and revoking potentially leaked credentials; SafeDep said the worm installs a wiper that deletes the victim's home directory when the victim revokes the stolen GitHub token.

GitHub COO says the world doesn't need a new GitHub

On October 29, 2026, at the Universe '26 conference, GitHub COO Kyle Daigle responded to Entire, a GitHub alternative founded by former CEO Thomas Dohmke, saying "I don't think the world needs a new GitHub," and stating that what developers need is for GitHub to evolve for the agent era. GitHub also announced the addition of 4 million CPU cores and 160PB of storage, a comprehensive rebuild of its backend infrastructure, and that it currently serves more than 225 million developers. Dohmke responded that developers clearly need a new choice, and that Entire aims to make a new home for the community open source, extensible, and distributed across multiple regions worldwide.

DeepSeek open-sources inference engine DeepInfer on GitHub

On October 29, 2026, DeepSeek open-sourced the inference engine DeepInfer on GitHub; this engine is the inference engine behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. Leiphone reported the same day that DeepInfer includes technologies such as MoE expert parallelism, asynchronous batch scheduling, custom kernels, and speculative decoding, and disclosed that a single cluster needs to process approximately 155 trillion tokens per day. Its Zero-Overhead Batch Scheduler lets the CPU schedule computation one round in advance, overlapping with GPU forward passes, and handles cross-round state misalignment through total_inflight_tokens accounting, Remap mapping, and DeferredRelease deferred reclamation. Currently, only offline inference capabilities are open; components such as online KV Cache storage and cross-replica load balancing have not yet been fully disclosed, and the official team has not separately published end-to-end speedup data for this scheduling mechanism relative to synchronous solutions.

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GitHub announces Copilot Fusion is now generally available

At GitHub Universe 2026, held on October 28–29, 2026, GitHub announced that Copilot Fusion, which integrates automatic model selection and multi-model collaboration, is now generally available. It can be used in VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, the CLI, and JetBrains IDEs, and its three processing tiers—Standard, High, and Max—automatically determine which model to use and which of three execution modes—Single, Cascade, and Critique—to apply. The desktop GitHub Copilot app also began public beta testing of Projects, which centralizes materials, repositories, sessions, and artifacts for management in one place. GitHub says Fusion Max scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, within 2 points of Claude Code using Opus 5.5 Max, while its average API cost per task is about half and its time required is about 40% less. At the same conference, Jay Parikh, Microsoft's executive vice president of CoreAI, disclosed that the GitHub platform recorded 7.4 billion code commits in September alone, with more than 40% of pull requests initiated by AI agents.

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Garry Tan says Capy changes the GitHub contribution graph

On October 28, 2026, Garry Tan reposted Arjun Lall's assessment of Capy (@capydotai), saying that this kind of "software factory"-style renormalization of GitHub contribution colors is real. He said that his token consumption was not exactly low before, but now he keeps 10 to 20 sub-agents running on GStack and GBrain, and PR submissions have become frequent and dense. There is currently no follow-up development.

Garry Tan says Capy software factory changes GitHub contribution graph

On October 28, 2026, Garry Tan reposted Arjun Lall's assessment of Capy (@capydotai), saying that this kind of "software factory"-style renormalization of GitHub contribution colors is real. He said that his token consumption was not exactly low before, but now he keeps 10 to 20 sub-agents running on GStack and GBrain, and PR submissions have become frequent and dense. There is currently no follow-up development.

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Steve Francia deploys a Game Boy emulator on the GitHub Universe badge

On October 28, 2026, Simon Willison reported that Steve Francia, with the help of Gemini, first implemented an NES emulator on the GitHub Universe conference badge, and then further deployed Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulators. The report stated that as long as a ROM is available, one can play "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening" on this badge. The badge is a computer with a color screen; when turned upside down, the built-in game controller touch buttons on the body can be used. There are currently no further developments.

Steve Francia deploys Game Boy emulator on GitHub Universe badge

On October 28, 2026, Simon Willison reported that Steve Francia, with the help of Gemini, first implemented an NES emulator on the GitHub Universe conference badge, and then further deployed Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulators. The report stated that as long as a ROM is available, one can play "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening" on this badge. The badge is a computer with a color screen; when turned upside down, the built-in game controller touch buttons on the body can be used. There are currently no further developments.

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GitHub announces general availability of Copilot Fusion

On October 29, 2026, GitHub announced that Copilot Fusion is officially available. According to a report by Rohan Paul, the product can route coding tasks between Claude and GPT models; on Artificial Analysis's Coding Agent Index, its Max setting scored 60, compared with 62 for Claude Code, at a cost per task of $5.59 versus $11.42, with Fusion consuming 7.2M tokens per task, roughly half of Claude Code's usage. On the same day, Microsoft released multiple updates at GitHub Universe, stating that Copilot Fusion achieves frontier-level quality, is 40% faster, and reduces costs by up to 77%, and announced that a unified Copilot harness is entering Foundry as a managed service. There are currently no subsequent developments.

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JFrog finds 42 GitHub repositories implanted with npm worm

JFrog's security research team discovered 42 GitHub repositories implanted with execution hooks and hidden malicious code, and classified them under the npm worm campaign testmetest. These repositories belong to 11 legitimate owners, and attackers injected code through stolen accounts or employee permissions. When users launch Claude Code, Gemini, or Cursor in a project, or open a VS Code workspace with the corresponding settings, the related configuration may execute the hidden file .github/init.js. JFrog listed 15 npm packages with at least one version judged malicious, and recommended checking affected systems, reviewing repository configurations and workflows, and revoking potentially leaked credentials; SafeDep said the worm installs a wiper that deletes the victim's home directory when the victim revokes the stolen GitHub token.

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GitHub COO says the world does not need a new GitHub

On October 29, 2026, at the Universe '26 conference, GitHub COO Kyle Daigle responded to Entire, a GitHub alternative founded by former CEO Thomas Dohmke, saying "I don't think the world needs a new GitHub," and stating that what developers need is for GitHub to evolve for the agent era. GitHub also announced the addition of 4 million CPU cores and 160PB of storage, a comprehensive rebuild of its backend infrastructure, and that it currently serves more than 225 million developers. Dohmke responded that developers clearly need a new choice, and that Entire aims to make a new home for the community open source, extensible, and distributed across multiple regions worldwide.

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GitHub Opens Package Firewall Public Preview

GitHub has opened Package Firewall as a public preview to Enterprise Cloud customers. The firewall inspects package queries and downloads according to centralized security policies, and currently supports only npm packages. Administrators can set a waiting period after a new version is released and block based on malware and vulnerability information from the GitHub Advisory Database; when a new version first introduces install scripts such as preinstall or postinstall, or lacks the SLSA provenance that previous versions had, the firewall blocks the download. The firewall sits between clients and upstream package sources, and coding agents and CI/CD hosts must route their requests through the service for it to take effect. The preview is free, and general availability will be billed by usage; GitHub has not announced the general availability date or specific pricing.