{"id":242291,"date":"2026-05-05T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/nhs-england-orders-github-repos-made-private\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:00:32","slug":"nhs-england-orders-github-repos-made-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/nhs-england-orders-github-repos-made-private\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS England orders GitHub repos made private"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/nhs-england-orders-github-repos-made-private-c9b3caee\">NHS England orders GitHub repos made private<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/nhs-england-orders-github-repos-made-private-c9b3caee\">https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/nhs-england-orders-github-repos-made-private-c9b3caee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 05:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"letsdatascience.com\">letsdatascience.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[21px] text-stone-700 leading-[1.45] font-serif font-light pb-7 pr-4 max-w-[68ch]\">According to guidance seen by The Register, <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">NHS England<\/strong> has instructed maintainers to set public <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">GitHub<\/strong> repositories to private by <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">May 11<\/strong>. The internal guidance cites risks from advanced AI models, naming <span class=\"font-medium text-neutral-900\">Mythos<\/span> and referencing Anthropic, and says repositories should not be public &#8220;unless there is an explicit and exceptional need,&#8221; The Register reports. An NHS England spokesperson told The Register, &#8220;We are temporarily restricting access to some NHS England source code to further strengthen cybersecurity while we assess the impact of rapid developments in AI models,&#8221; and added, &#8220;We will continue to publish source code where there is a clear need.&#8221; _New Scientist_ separately published the same deadline and quoted guidance that &#8220;All source code repositories must be private by default.&#8221; A technical blog (shkspr.mobi) published a leaked guidance note referred to as <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">SDLC-8<\/strong> and a quote attributed to a senior technical person describing imminent removals of nonessential repos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/nhs-england-orders-github-repos-made-private-c9b3caee\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS England orders GitHub repos made private https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/nhs-england-orders-github-repos-made-private-c9b3caee Publish Date: 2026-05-05 05:20:00 Source Domain: letsdatascience.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2024\/09\/03\/shutterstock_nhslogogeneric.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-242291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242293,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242291\/revisions\/242293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}