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13 stories tracking GitHub, ranked newest first, from TechSnif's permanent archive.

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Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog ·

GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

Cursor ·

Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more

Cursor can now host your code.

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer ·

Microsoft says the outage affecting GitHub's API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services has been mitigated, three hours after it first confirmed the outage

GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·

X makes the source code for its For You timeline available on GitHub and adds tools to let users see if X's ranking systems "shadowbanned" them

X is significantly expanding its open-source codebase, which includes the app's "For You" algorithm and its core ranking engine …

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider ·

Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues

Microsoft is turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues on its GitHub coding platform following a series of AI-driven outages …

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch ·

Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them

Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached …

Joseph Cox / 404 Media ·

Microsoft has shut down 70+ of its own repositories on GitHub after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from users of AI coding agents

Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware …

Rohan Prabhu / Step Security Blog ·

Researchers find packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware that harvests credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure, and others

Several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm scope were found to carry malicious payloads that fire via a preinstall hook on every npm install.

Wired ·

Socket: TeamPCP, the gang claiming GitHub's repositories breach, also executed 20 "waves" of supply chain attacks recently, compromising 500+ pieces of software

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer ·

GitHub confirms ~3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claims responsibility

GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.

The Hacker News ·

Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay

Grafana has disclosed that an "unauthorized party" obtained a token that granted them the ability to access the company's GitHub environment and download its codebase.

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register ·

GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default

Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement

Sean Endicott / Windows Central ·

After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it "disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback"

Over 11,000 pull requests have been spotted with the same "tips" injected into descriptions.

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