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GitHub rebuilds Git storage for agent traffic, shifting more capacity into Azure

Exponential machine traffic is changing where repositories live and how concurrent Git writes are handled.

GitHub says exponentially growing agent-driven Git traffic, data-center power limits and supply constraints pushed it to replicate 99.99999% of repositories across its own facilities and Azure, which now handles about half of Git traffic. To move the busiest repositories across a 25-millisecond round trip, it is replacing repository-wide write serialization with per-reference serialization, which produced three-to-four-times higher throughput in internal tests. The redesign shows machine users forcing a core code-information platform to scale around agent access while moving more of its distribution infrastructure into cloud capacity.

Copyright

Appeals court narrows DMCA claims over AI output that omits attribution

A Ninth Circuit ruling limits when missing attribution in generative-AI output becomes a DMCA violation.

The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a claim that GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex violated Section 1202 of the DMCA by returning code without copyright-management information, holding that the tools generate new works rather than remove attribution from an existing copy. The court said literal identity is not always required when a protected work is substantially reproduced with its attribution stripped, and it did not decide whether similar output could support ordinary copyright-infringement claims. For creators and publishers, the ruling narrows one route to enhanced DMCA damages while leaving traditional copyright and contract claims to carry more of the AI-attribution fight.