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NHS closes hundreds of GitHub repos over AI and security fears

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The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is temporarily closing access to hundreds of its public GitHub repositories due to concerns about advanced AI models exploiting code. This move, effective by May 11, reverses a long-standing policy of open-sourcing code developed with public funds. While the NHS states this is a cybersecurity measure to assess AI's impact, it specifically mentions Anthropic's Mythos model as a potential risk for code ingestion and reasoning. AI

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RANK_REASON A major public health organization is changing its open-source policy due to AI security concerns.

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