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Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

Microsoft's GitHub experienced downtime on Monday, despite having migrated to Azure, as a surge in AI-related activity overwhelmed the platform. The outage affected developers worldwide, highlighting the strain that AI tools place on infrastructure.

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