Comment by PokestarFan
3 months ago
NPM is owned by GitHub and therefore Microsoft, who is too busy putting in Copilot into apps that have 0 reason to have any form of generative AI in them
3 months ago
NPM is owned by GitHub and therefore Microsoft, who is too busy putting in Copilot into apps that have 0 reason to have any form of generative AI in them
But Github does loads of things with security, including reporting compromised NPM packages. I didn't know NPM is owned by Microsoft these days though, now that I think about it, Microsoft of all parties should be right on top of this supply chain attack vector - they've been burned hard by security issues for decades, especially in the mid to late 90's, early 2000s as hundreds of millions of devices were connected to the internet, but their OS wasn't ready for it yet.
It's not like NPM pre-Microsoft was a paragon of professional management or engineering...
For those who have forgotten, Microsoft buying npm was basically a community service given npm inc was on the brink of collapsing
https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-ceo-bryan-bogensberger-r...
https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-cofounder-laurie-voss-re...
The difference is in the apparent available resources. You cant get to "professional" without the time and money, and NPM post acquisition, presumably, has more of both. Granted, NPM probably doesn't have a revenue model to speak of, which means Microsoft is probably not paying it much attention.
Good god. Not everything has to be about your opinion on AI.
GitHub was folded into Microsoft's "CoreAI" team. Not very confidence-inspiring.
Actually, they could probably use AI to see if each update to a package looks malicious or obfuscated.
Just write a check.md instruction for copilot to check it for malicious acticity, problem solved
Is it really owned and run by Microsoft? I thought they only provide infrastructure, servers and funding.