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GitHub outages persist as AI coding drives traffic surge

GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized

GitHub has been struggling with service availability in recent months as traffic on the platform has surged, driven in large part by AI-assisted coding and agentic development workflows. The code-sharing site has been trying to address those issues by expanding capacity and migrating more workloads to Azure infrastructure, but reliability remains uneven.

In the May 2026 GitHub Availability Report, GitHub acknowledges nine incidents that degraded performance, one fewer than its April report.

That's something. But Jakub Oleksy, SVP of software engineering at GitHub, says there's more to be done.

"We are making structural changes that permanently remove failure modes," he said in the report. "We acknowledge that we have work to do, but we’re committed to getting it done and making GitHub reliable when and where...

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Why human-centric displays matter in the screen-first workplace

As work becomes increasingly digital, it’s also becoming more visual. The average adult now spends approximately 7-10 hours per day looking at screens, demonstrating our increased reliance on visual technology for daily tasks and work. Healthy Vision Month is an important time to revisit the intersection of workplace trends,

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Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off

Concerns over the impact of AI chatbots on mental health, personal safety, harassment, and disinformation have forced AI developers to implement safeguards to better control how and what their AI models are allowed to respond or do. But concerns and worries can’t erode demand. AI offers a lot of

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Sony to end physical PlayStation game disc sales in 2028

7:16 AM PDT · July 1, 2026 Sony announced Wednesday that it will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games starting in January 2028, marking a move into an all-digital future. After that, every new release will be sold digitally through the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Games

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Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac

Gemini Spark, Google’s AI agent that can help with aspects of your digital life, is now available on Mac. The company on Wednesday said Spark is being added to the existing Gemini desktop app, as well as several updates and new features, including the ability to stay up to

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

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Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac