Using Bing’s caching mechanism, the company found more than 20,000 since-private GitHub repositories still had data accessible through Copilot, affecting more than 16,000 organizations.

The service goes to significant lengths to protect access keys and encourages its users to do the same. The problem isn't related to GitHub itself so much as it is with careless developers.

The company has announced its flagship DeepSeek R1 model is now available on multiple platforms, including Nvidia, AWS, and GitHub.

Mittal provided TechCrunch with evidence that the exposed repositories contained Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) keys, a Postgres database, and Mercedes source code.

DeepSeek said it would double down on open-source technology with a fresh commitment to make five of its code repositories public, as the Chinese start-up continues to draw worldwide attention ...