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GitHub outage disrupts core services and Copilot for nearly 8 hours

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GitHub experienced a significant outage on August 17, lasting nearly 8 hours. The disruption affected core services including the main website, authentication, GitHub Actions, APIs, and pull requests. The outage also impacted GitHub Copilot, a popular AI coding assistant. AI

IMPACT Disruption to GitHub Copilot impacts AI-assisted software development workflows.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes an infrastructure outage affecting a widely used developer platform and its associated tools.

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GitHub outage disrupts core services and Copilot for nearly 8 hours

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    On August 17, GitHub experienced an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes. It disrupted github.com, authentication, GitHub Actions, APIs, pull requests, iss

    On August 17, GitHub experienced an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes. It disrupted github.com, authentication, GitHub Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot. Source: GitHub Blog https:// github.blog/news-insights/comp any-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work…

    LINKS github.blog/…/the-august-17-outage-and-th…

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