GitHub Down: Pull Requests, Issues, Actions And Copilot Hit By Major Outage Today

GitHub is facing a significant outage on August 17, 2026, with multiple core services degraded since around 7:10 PM IST. The company has confirmed elevated error rates across its platform and is ...
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'This is horrific': GitHub kills Copilot pull-request ads after user backlash

More than 11,000 GitHub pull requests had ads inserted by Copilot Developers were unhappy about the way they were being implemented GitHub has confirmed this was a mistake, and it has no plans to ...
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Copilot is now injecting ads into GitHub pull requests. It's a disaster.

Microsoft may have committed to reducing microslop in Windows 11, but the tech giant seemingly forgot to CC GitHub about the initiative. A software developer named Zach Manson shared that Copilot ...

GitHub was down for most of the day

If you heard lots of grumbling in coffee shops today, GitHub's outage may be why.
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GitHub had a major outage, but now says its services are ‘fully operational’

The issues apparently popped up because of a ‘database infrastructure related change’ that GitHub rolled back. The issues apparently popped up because of a ‘database infrastructure related change’ ...
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Microsoft launches GitHub Desktop 3.0 with great new pull request features

Microsoft has launched the latest version of its developer tool GitHub Desktop. The company describes GitHub Desktop 3.0 as a "big milestone", with this release bringing enhance pull request ...