NHS England has ordered technology leaders to make hundreds of public GitHub repositories private by May 11, citing concerns about advanced AI models — specifically Anthropic's Mythos — being capable of large-scale code ingestion and vulnerability discovery. The move is described as temporary while the organization reassesses its cybersecurity posture. Critics, including former NHSX open technology head Terence Eden, argue the measure is largely ineffective since the code was already ingested for AI training years ago and the real threats come from phishing, poor password hygiene, and supply chain vulnerabilities rather than public source code. The decision represents a notable reversal of NHS and UK government policy mandating that publicly funded code be open source.
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