GitHub's 7-hour outage on August 17, 2026, was exacerbated by a retry loop in the VS Code Copilot extension that overwhelmed the Copilot Token Service with up to 100,000 requests per second, 14 times …
GitHub blamed a capacity failure in its Central US data center and a retry storm that multiplied Copilot traffic for the August 17th outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes, according to a postmorte…
AI-generated code is flooding GitHub and degrading codebases, with research showing AI-written code has 1.7 times more critical issues and 45% ships with OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Major projects l…
Anthropic's Claude Code service suffered a 90-minute outage on Tuesday, reducing its uptime to just one nine over the past 60 days. Meanwhile, GitHub CTO Vlad Fedorov published a second blog post in s…